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Published: Feb. 5, 2021, 6:30 a.m.

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This week we discuss Amazon\\u2019s new CEO, AWS & GCP Earnings and Facebook vs. Apple. Plus, should you sign up for Clubhouse\\u2026?

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Rundown

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• Bezos out, Jassy In, AWS Earnings\\n\\n
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  • Email from Jeff Bezos to employees
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  • Amazon\'s cloud division reports 28% revenue growth; AWS head Andy Jassy to succeed Bezos as Amazon CEO
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  • Amazon earnings: Q4 sales topped $100 billion for the first time, Bezos to step down as CEO
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  • Jeff Bezos to step down as Amazon CEO, Andy Jassy to take over in Q3
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  • Amazon.com Announces Financial Results and CEO Transition
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• GCP Earnings\\n\\n
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  • Google\\u2019s cloud business lost more than $5.5 billion last year, but it\\u2019s growing fast
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  • Charted: How Google Cloud stacks up to AWS
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  • Google Cloud lost $5.61 billion on $13.06 billion revenue last year
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• VC Money\\n\\n
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  • Honeycomb Raises $20M to Define the Future of Observability
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  • Databricks Raises $1 Billion Series G Investment at $28 Billion Valuation
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• EOL\\u2019d\\n\\n
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  • Google is shutting down its in-house Stadia game development studios
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  • The writing\\u2019s on the wall for Google Stadia
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  • IBM Blockchain Is a Shell of Its Former Self After Revenue Misses, Job Cuts: Sources
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• Tim Cook May Have Just Ended Facebook
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• Apple and Facebook
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• Pentagon Hints It Could Abandon the JEDI Cloud Effort
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Relevant to your interests

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• Google salvaged Robinhood\\u2019s one-star rating by deleting nearly 100,000 negative reviews
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• Robinhood Raises $3.4 Billion to Fuel Record Customer Growth
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• Lawmakers Look at GameStop Furor and See a Populist Issue to Seize
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• A Brief History of Web Design Tools
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• WeWork in Talks to Combine With SPAC or Raise Money Privately
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• What went wrong with America\\u2019s $44 million vaccine data system?
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• No Meetings, No Deadlines, No Full-Time Employees
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• iCloud Passwords Chrome Windows extension now available
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• Docker Hub and JFrog Partnership Removes Image Pull Limits for Artifactory Users
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• Amazon Faces Familiar Opponent in Alabama Union Election
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• Here\\u2019s Why We\\u2019re Co-Creating Our Future with Google
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• Why You Should Also Switch to Linux
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• Elon Musk: Neuralink enabled monkey to \'play video games using his mind\'
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• Ford and Google sign six-year deal for in-car connectivity and cloud services
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• IBM cuts back on blockchain as COVID cuts hit
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• Mask-wearers will be able to unlock their iPhone with the Apple Watch
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• Azure Quantum is now in Public Preview - Microsoft Quantum
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• Atos And DXC Technology Deal \\u2018Not For The Faint Of Heart:\\u2019 Analyst
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• Tesla to recall more than 130,000 cars following regulators\' pressure
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Nonsense

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• Refrigerators Are Finally Embracing the Good Ice
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• AWS CEO fake Job Post
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• 20,000 honey bees took over a tech company\\u2019s empty office during lockdown
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• Battle Chess : Interplay : Free Download, Borrow, and Streaming : Internet Archive
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• Marc wants you to work at abstraction.games as an Automation Engineer Remote/Netherlands
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Conferences

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• DevOpsDay Texas on March 2nd.
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• SpringOne.io
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Recommendations

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• Matt: Search Party\\n\\n
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• Brandon: In & Of Itself
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