AWS reports Q1 revenue of $7.7B, up 41% YoY and representing 13% of Amazon's total sales, and operating income of $2.2B, ~50% of Amazon's total operating income
and why it might not last Ed Hardy / Cult of Mac : Apple actually reducing dependence on Amazon cloud services Tweets: @cloud_opinion : AWS earnings: yeah Stefan Constantine / @whatthebit : “Operating...
Interview with Bram Cohen, creator of BitTorrent, on his new cryptocurrency startup Chia, which aims to be more eco-friendly than Bitcoin and launches next year
an IPO—to get his off the ground. https://www.wired.com/... Chris Collins / @chris3collins : Chia will generate revenue by providing services to banks that facilitate use of its protocol. I suspect mo...
Amazon raises minimum wage to $15 per hour for all 350K+ US workers, including part-time, temporary, and seasonal employees, effective next month
here are the costs and benefits US Day One Blog : Amazon Raises Minimum Wage to $15 for All U.S. Employees Conor Sen / Bloomberg : Amazon's Minimum Wage Will Change How Americans Think About Work Dere...
French startup Less, which pays drivers to use its navigation app where data is outdated, raises $19M Series A; the app will power Less' ride-sharing service
Romain Dillet / TechCrunch : Tweets: @whatthebit Tweets: Stefan Constantine / @whatthebit : interesting biz model use our app, we'll pay you just give us the data http://twitter.com/...
Giphy, which has raised $150M and has 150M+ users watching 4M+ hours of GIFs every day, weighs various revenue models
Plenty of tech startups dream of building a new consumer brand that's used and recognized by hundreds of millions of people every day. — Few of them get as close as Giphy … Tweets: @pinboard , @pcpe...
Chetan Sharma: after 17 straight years of QoQ growth, cellular data revenues dropped in Q1 2017
Karl Bode / Techdirt : Tweets: @whatthebit Tweets: Stefan Constantine / @whatthebit : can we get someone to compare this to other mature Western markets? i know in Finland, my phone bill was like $15...
Chetan Sharma: after 17 straight years of QoQ growth, cellular data revenues dropped in Q1 2017
We've noted for some time how T-Mobile's crazy idea to be nice to consumers (well, if you exclude their attacks on the EFF and net neutrality) has been a great thing for American consumers. Tweets: @w...
WeWork has raised $430M in new round of financing to fuel a major push into Asia, giving the firm a valuation of about $16B
Over the past few months … Dan Primack / Fortune : WeWork Is Raising $780 Million at a Huge Valuation Ronny Kerr / VatorNews : WeWork picks up another $430M for China expansion Matt Weinberger / Busin...
Earnings Release FY15 Q2 — Microsoft Cloud and Devices Momentum Highlights Second Quarter Results
but didn't sell — 6.6M Xboxes during its fiscal Q2 Barb Darrow / Gigaom : Microsoft cites key cloud and mobile segments for good Q2 Steve Kovach / Business Insider : Surface Booked More Than $1 Billio...