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☆ We just got our best sign yet that Oracle's core business is getting stronger even without spending big cash on acquisitions like Cerner
▼ + stars: | 2022-09-13 | by ( Belle Lin | ) www.businessinsider.com time to read: +5 min

The database giant's overall revenue grew 18% in the quarter from the same period last year, and its cloud revenue grew 45% to $3.6 billion. That's including the contributions of Cerner, the medical-records company Oracle bought for $28 billion in a big bet on the healthcare market. But it still lags far behind Amazon, Microsoft, and Google in cloud market share, which means it can't afford to stop investing in its cloud platform. The capability allows Amazon Web Services customers to use Oracle's database without leaving AWS. Sources said Oracle's cloud group was virtually unaffected by the cuts.

☆ Watch the full interview with Amazon Web Services CEO Adam Selipsky
▼ + stars: | 2022-09-12 | by ( ) www.cnbc.com time to read: 1 min

Share Share Article via Facebook Share Article via Twitter Share Article via LinkedIn Share Article via EmailWatch the full interview with Amazon Web Services CEO Adam SelipskyIn Monday's interview for "Mad Money" with Jim Cramer, Selipsky detailed steps that Amazon, the entire company, is taking to be net-zero carbon by 2040.

☆ JPMorgan is trying to harness the power of quantum-computing to solve problems at lightning speed, from options pricing to fraud detection
▼ + stars: | 2022-09-08 | by ( Bianca Chan | Carter Johnson | ) www.businessinsider.com time to read: +5 min

As an emerging alternative to the traditional computer, JPMorgan execs believe quantum computing could upend how finance firms perform computations. Unlike classical computers, which can store only a one or a zero, quantum computers use quantum bits, or qubits. Qubits can store multiple values at the same time, which theoretically gives the quantum computers big speed advantages. Meanwhile, Fidelity has been exploring the potential of quantum computing in wealth management. Wells Fargo, too, has invested in quantum computing to process complex data structures used for fraud detection.

☆ Tanium insiders say the $9 billion startup is trying to cozy up to Microsoft and angle itself to be acquired as cost cutting and a market downturn chill hopes for its long-awaited IPO
▼ + stars: | 2022-09-08 | by ( Rosalie Chan | ) www.businessinsider.com time to read: +7 min

Current and former Tanium employees say the company has been tightening its belt. Tanium had two rounds of job cuts in the past month as internal hopes for its IPO faded. "Plenty of ink has been spilled over the past few months on this topic," a Tanium spokesperson said of its IPO plans. Even so, many rank-and-file employees are skeptical that either an acquisition or IPO will happen, a current employee said. "All well run organizations look for ways to simplify their structures and adapt to meet changing business requirements and industry shifts," the Tanium spokesperson said.

Analysts were skeptical of the Broadcom acquisition from the startFrom the get-go, Broadcom's plan to buy VMware seemed far-fetched. Read more:Customers and employees tell Insider the worst is yet to comeWork at VMware quickly lost meaning for employees under the threat of Broadcom's impending acquisition. Meanwhile, VMware customers are starting to feel the ripple effects. Since the Broadcom deal was announced, VMware employees have reported "aggressive" recruiter outreach from giants like Amazon Web Services, Google, and IBM. They told Insider about their plans to use the buyout to get closer to VMware customers.

☆ Ransomware's new business model enables anyone to extort companies for massive payouts. Some insiders say it's a criminal twist on the strategy that made cloud giants so successful.
▼ + stars: | 2022-09-02 | by ( Belle Lin | ) www.businessinsider.com time to read: +5 min

Ransomware is following the business and distribution model that made cloud giants so successful. Experts say it's so easy to buy ransomware tool kits that hackers can make a monthly income from it. In the same vein, ransomware developers are taking care of back-end operations to get hackers up and running. Today's ransomware gig economy includes a network of behind-the-scenes operatorsThe ransomware gig economy behind ransomware-as-a-service programs has also expanded rapidly over the past two years. Record-breaking payouts include a $4.4 million ransom secured by hackers that attacked the fuel-pipeline operator Colonial Pipeline in 2021.

☆ Some VMware partners say they're optimistic about the $61 billion Broadcom buyout and see it as an opportunity to cozy up to customers who fear they'll get lost in the deal's fallout
▼ + stars: | 2022-09-01 | by ( Paayal Zaveri | Jessica Xing | Jacob E. Robbins | ) www.businessinsider.com time to read: +6 min

But some partners say they're optimistic and see an opportunity to cozy up to VMware customers. In fact, several VMware partners view the seismic buyout as an opportunity and hope to use it to their advantage. Even those who weren't as optimistic about Broadcom's takeover told Insider the 24-year-old company was in need of a shake-up. Why VMware partners are optimisticBefore the acquisition announcement, Broadcom told investors the firm was "totally focused on the priorities" of 600 top strategic accounts. "Broadcom is where good software goes to die," an employee from a VMware partner told Insider.

☆ The executive running Oracle's tattered marketing group, called 'the hatchet man' by some employees, is tasked with cutting costs, insiders say
▼ + stars: | 2022-08-26 | by ( Belle Lin | Ryan Joe | ) www.businessinsider.com time to read: +10 min

Oracle's marketing team "imploded" following layoffs and the departure of its CMO this summer. A source told Insider that means salespeople will be selling products to sectors they never had before, including healthcare, which is now a key focus with Cerner. Plus, products like Oracle's cloud infrastructure face competition from tech giants like Amazon, making marketing a key lever in that fight. That morning, nearly 50% of some marketing groups received phone calls that they were being laid off, including Kelman's senior staff, multiple sources told Insider. Oracle's marketing structure, as it once was, is gone.

☆ VMware employees describe 'aggressive' recruiter outreach from AWS, Google, and IBM after Broadcom deal announced
▼ + stars: | 2022-08-25 | by ( Jessica Xing | Jacob E. Robbins | ) www.businessinsider.com time to read: +5 min

VMware employees are leaving the firm in droves after Broadcom announced its plans to buy the firm. Employees told Insider they received an "onslaught" of recruiter emails after the announcement. Days after the chip firm Broadcom announced a $61 billion deal to acquire the cloud-computing company VMware, recruiters could sense the malaise within VMware — and they pounced. Seven current and recent VMware employees said they'd been approached by recruiters in large volumes following the announcement of the acquisition. Unless I'm actively looking and applying for positions, I haven't been directly reached out to," the engineer told Insider.

☆ After 28 years, 'Day 2' finally arrives at Amazon
▼ + stars: | 2022-08-24 | by ( Eugene Kim | ) www.businessinsider.com time to read: +11 min

Amazon is known for "Day 1" culture, maintaining a nimble mindset found on a startup's first day. This is a big challenge facing Amazon CEO Andy Jassy, who replaced founder Jeff Bezos last year. On May 26, Amazon retail CEO Dave Clark held a fireside chat with employees at an internal event called Fishbowl. But 28 years on, Day 2 has finally arrived, according to more than a dozen current and former Amazon employees who cited problems including a stodgy engineering culture, extra management layers, and rising red tape. "Historically Amazon was one of the best places for builders, but now when people want to build, they leave Amazon," this person said.

☆ Here are 3 ways we inflation-proofed our portfolio in this baffling stock market
▼ + stars: | 2022-08-03 | by ( Paulina Likos | ) www.cnbc.com time to read: +11 min

We hold energy companies because of their ability to generate strong free cash flows and return money to shareholders. But we readily admit we should have trimmed some of our positions much earlier when oil prices peaked. If energy prices fall, our energy stocks may get hit, but our holdings that are currently experiencing margin pressure due to high energy prices will get some relief. Remember, even if our energy stocks go down, they're paying us in dividends and buybacks to hang tight. And if production can't keep up with demand, oil prices go back up, which serves oil and energy companies well.

☆ These 14 execs are leading the cloud revolution at top Wall Street firms like JPMorgan, Point72, and Citadel
▼ + stars: | 2022-06-06 | by ( Bianca Chan | Carter Johnson | ) www.businessinsider.com time to read: +2 min

Here are 14 power players on Wall Street leading the industry's push into the cloud. Finance hasn't always been open to public-cloud technology, largely due to security and regulatory concerns. The cloud is currently taking Wall Street by storm, and a new class of power players is emerging with it. The cloud now touches every nook and cranny on Wall Street from investment banking to risk management and marketing. Here are the 14 power-player executives leading cloud strategy, vision, and execution for the country's largest financial firms.

Persons: Finance hasn't, Saul Van Beurden, workloads Organizations: Wall, Finance, Web Services, Google, IBM, Microsoft, Wells Fargo Securities, Wells Locations: Wells, Wells Fargo

☆ The public cloud is changing how Wall Street works. Here's how the tech is upending everything from trading to dealmaking.
▼ + stars: | 2022-02-23 | by ( Bianca Chan | ) www.businessinsider.com time to read: +13 min

Cloud technology has now percolated through nearly every nook and cranny of Wall Street, affecting everything from investment banking to risk management and marketing. What's motivated the recent trend stems from two things that typically elicit change at financial firms: saving money and moving faster. But at least 30 Wall Street firms and well-known fintechs have publicly sided with one provider as a primary partner. "If you look at Wall Street, they have tens of thousands of people in back offices. Take Citibank, which accidentally wired $900 million to Revlon lenders in what is considered one of the largest blunders ever on Wall Street.

☆ Amazon tells some Flex contract delivery drivers their paychecks may be delayed after massive AWS cloud outage
▼ + stars: | 2021-12-08 | by ( Katherine Long | ) www.businessinsider.com time to read: +3 min

In a Wednesday-morning email to Amazon Flex drivers, the network of thousands of independent contractors who deliver Amazon packages in their own vehicles, Amazon assured drivers they would be paid for the time they had been scheduled to work Tuesday during the outage. The email added that the app Flex drivers use to schedule shifts, route deliveries, and check their earnings continued to experience glitches. Drivers who finished their shifts during the outage said they couldn't find a record they ever delivered their packages. "Screenshot EVERYTHING," one Flex driver told the members of a Facebook group for drivers in the Seattle area on Tuesday. The company recently agreed to repay almost $60 million in withheld driver tips after a Federal Trade Commission investigation.

Persons: —, Katherine Long Organizations: Service, Amazon Web Services, Business, Amazon Flex, Drivers, Amazon, Federal Trade Commission Locations: Seattle

☆ The head of Amazon's quantum computing product explains its master plan as it signs key partnerships to establish a foothold in the next big thing
▼ + stars: | 2021-08-07 | by ( Rosalie Chan | ) www.businessinsider.com time to read: +5 min

Amazon was relatively quiet about quantum computing until it announced Amazon Braket in 2019. Amazon Web Services has been ramping up its quantum computing partnerships in the past few months. Along with that, AWS will offer cloud software from Quantum Computing Inc., which helps companies solve business problems using quantum computing, and it recently partnered with BMW to launch a quantum computing challenge to crowdsource automative projects in the field. That silence ended in 2019 when AWS announced its quantum computing service, Amazon Braket. In quantum computing, there's a lot of "noise" that gets in the way of solving problems, so this approach aims to reduce errors.

☆ Самый богатый человек мира Джефф Безос покидает пост гендиректора Amazon
▼ + stars: | 2021-07-05 | by ( ) nokta.md time to read: 1 min

Джефф Безос в понедельник, 5 июля, покидает пост гендиректора основанной им компании Amazon. Он объяснил, что намерен уделять больше времени другим проектам, в том числе созданной им аэрокосмической компании Blue Origin. Разработанный фирмой многоразовый космический корабль New Shepard 20 июля отправится в первый пилотируемый полет, одним из участников которого станет Безос. Компания Amazon была основана в Сиэтле в июле 1994 года в качестве интернет-площадки по продаже книг. Джефф Безос занимает первую строчку в рейтинге самых богатых людей мира по версии журнала Forbes.

Persons: Shepard, Джефф Безос, Эндрю Джесси, Безос Organizations: Amazon Web Services, Origin, Forbes Locations: Сиэтл, США

☆ Богатейший человек планеты покидает пост генерального директора Amazon
▼ + stars: | 2021-07-05 | by ( Mld Media Srl | ) noi.md time to read: +1 min

Богатейший человек планеты Джефф Безос 5 июля покидает пост генерального директора основанной им компании Amazon. Полномочия гендиректора перейдут Эндрю Джесси, который до этого возглавлял компанию Amazon Web Services. Под руководством Джесси облачный бизнес Amazon получил крупных клиентов, включая Verizon, McDonald’s и Honeywell. За 2020 год Amazon получил чистую прибыль в размере $26,9 млрд. Это больше, чем суммарная чистая прибыль Amazon за три года до начала пандемии коронавируса.

Persons: Джефф Безос, Безос, Эндрю Джесси, Джесси Organizations: Washington Post, Amazon Web Services, Verizon, Honeywell, Forbes

☆ Andy Jassy officially starts as Amazon CEO today. Insiders describe his 'CHOP' meetings, micromanagement, and 'Nice' emails.
▼ + stars: | 2021-07-05 | by ( Eugene Kim | Ashley Stewart | ) www.businessinsider.com time to read: +22 min

On July 5, Andy Jassy officially became Amazon CEO, succeeding Jeff Bezos, who steps into the position of executive chairman. When Amazon Web Services CEO Andy Jassy has a big decision to make, it usually comes at the Chop. "If you go to a Chop meeting with Andy, you better be ready," one former senior-level employee told Insider. Though he's one of the longest-serving executives at Amazon and a close confidant of CEO Jeff Bezos, Jassy still remains relatively little-known outside tech circles. Early on in the pandemic, Jassy told AWS employees that "the world is relying on Amazon," according to an email seen by Insider.

Persons: Andy Jassy, Jeff Bezos, Jassy, Andy, —, Dan Ives, Bezos, It's, Jassy's, Steve Ballmer, Satya Nadella, Travis Kalanick, he's, Dave Matthews, Rothschild, Scott Chancellor, who's, let's, Jeff, Taimur Rashid, AWS's, Rashid, it's, Tim Bray, Bray, Marc Benioff, Salesforce, Chancellor, MARK RALSTON, He's, Trump, Donald Trump's, Jeff Wilke, it'll, didn't, Ashley Stewart, Eugene Kim Organizations: Amazon, Amazon Web, Seattle, Charterhouse, Wedbush Securities, Services, AWS, they're, Harvard, New York Times, Redis Labs, Amazon ., Getty, Lawmakers, Defense Department, Microsoft, Black, Google, Netflix, Black Employee Network, African, Lambda, Web Services Locations: Parma, Jassy, manila, Bezos, AFP, DynamoDB

☆ Джефф Безос покидает пост гендиректора компании Amazon
▼ + stars: | 2021-06-22 | by ( Mld Media Srl | ) noi.md time to read: +1 min

Полномочия переходят Эндрю Джесси, ранее руководившему компанией Amazon Web Services. Джефф Безос в понедельник, 5 июля, покидает пост гендиректора основанной им компании Amazon. Полномочия переходят Эндрю Джесси, ранее руководившему компанией Amazon Web Services. Разработанный фирмой многоразовый космический корабль New Shepard 20 июля отправится в первый пилотируемый полет, одним из участников которого станет Безос. Джефф Безос занимает первую строчку в рейтинге самых богатых людей мира по версии журнала Forbes.

Persons: Shepard, Эндрю Джесси, Джефф Безос, Безос Organizations: Amazon Web Services, Origin, Forbes Locations: Сиэтл, США

☆ Jeff Bezos will step down as Amazon's CEO later this year and be replaced by AWS CEO Andy Jassy
▼ + stars: | 2021-02-02 | by ( Avery Hartmans | Ashley Stewart | ) www.businessinsider.com time to read: +3 min

Jeff Bezos will step down as Amazon CEO in the third quarter of 2021. Andy Jassy, the CEO of Amazon Web Services, will replace him. AdvertisementAdvertisementAndy Jassy, the CEO of Amazon Web Services, will replace him. The cloud CEO helped build AWS into a massive unit that generates over $40 billion in annual revenue. AdvertisementAdvertisementAre you an Amazon Web Services employee?

Persons: Jeff Bezos, Andy Jassy, Bezos, —, Jassy, Ashley Stewart Organizations: Amazon Web Services, Service, Amazon, Fund, Washington Post, Services, Web Services Locations: Jassy

☆ ВОЗ запускает кампанию по оказанию помощи людям, пытающимся бросить курить
▼ + stars: | 2020-12-09 | by ( Mld Media Srl | ) noi.md time to read: +4 min

Сегодня ВОЗ запускает годичную глобальную кампанию по проведению Всемирного дня без табака в 2021 году — “Возьмите на себя обязательство бросить курить». Новая акция от ВОЗ Quit Challenge на WhatsApp и публикация “более 100 причин бросить курить» выходят сегодня, чтобы отметить начало кампании, передает spini.org. Пандемия COVID-19 привела к тому, что миллионы потребителей табака заявили, что хотят бросить курить. ВОЗ вместе с партнерами будет создавать и наращивать цифровые сообщества, где люди смогут найти социальную поддержку, необходимую им для того, чтобы бросить курить. *Основными странами проведения кампании являются:Демократическая Республика Тимор-ЛештиФедеративная Демократическая Республика ЭфиопияФедеративная Республика ГерманияФедеративная Республика НигерияФедеративная Республика БразилияИорданское Хашимитское КоролевствоИсламская Республика ИранИсламская Республика ПакистанНародная Республика БангладешКитайская Народная РеспубликаРеспублика ИндияРеспублика ИндонезияРеспублика ФилиппиныРеспублика ПольшаЮжно-Африканская РеспубликаРеспублика СуринамТурецкая РеспубликаРоссийская ФедерацияСоциалистическая Республика ВьетнамМексиканские Соединенные ШтатыСоединенные Штаты АмерикиУкраина

☆ The 15 fastest-growing jobs in India — and the skills they require, according to LinkedIn
▼ + stars: | 2019-12-12 | by ( Karen Gilchrist | ) www.cnbc.com time to read: +10 min

It then identified the skills typically required for each role and in which cities the greatest number of jobs were concentrated. Here are India's top 15 emerging jobs of 2020, the skills they require and where the most jobs are, according to LinkedIn. Top industries hiring for this role: Information technology and services, computer software, internet, marketing and advertising, financial services. Top industries hiring for this role: Information technology and services, computer software, internet, financial services, e-learning Skills you need: Node.js, MogoDB, Javascript, MySQL Where the jobs are: Bengaluru, Mumbai, New Delhi4. Top industries hiring for this role: Information technology and services, computer software, accounting, management consulting, information services Skills you need: UiPath, Automation Anywhere, Blue Prism, process automation, SQL Where the jobs are: Bengaluru, Mumbai3.

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