Episode Details

This week we discuss Amazon’s new CEO, AWS & GCP Earnings and Facebook vs. Apple. Plus, should you sign up for Clubhouse…?

Rundown

• Bezos out, Jassy In, AWS Earnings
  • Email from Jeff Bezos to employees
  • Amazon's cloud division reports 28% revenue growth; AWS head Andy Jassy to succeed Bezos as Amazon CEO
  • Amazon earnings: Q4 sales topped $100 billion for the first time, Bezos to step down as CEO
  • Jeff Bezos to step down as Amazon CEO, Andy Jassy to take over in Q3
  • Amazon.com Announces Financial Results and CEO Transition
• GCP Earnings
  • Google’s cloud business lost more than $5.5 billion last year, but it’s growing fast
  • Charted: How Google Cloud stacks up to AWS
  • Google Cloud lost $5.61 billion on $13.06 billion revenue last year
• VC Money
  • Honeycomb Raises $20M to Define the Future of Observability
  • Databricks Raises $1 Billion Series G Investment at $28 Billion Valuation
• EOL’d
  • Google is shutting down its in-house Stadia game development studios
  • The writing’s on the wall for Google Stadia
  • IBM Blockchain Is a Shell of Its Former Self After Revenue Misses, Job Cuts: Sources
• Tim Cook May Have Just Ended Facebook
• Apple and Facebook
• Pentagon Hints It Could Abandon the JEDI Cloud Effort

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