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DHS moving biometric screening system to Amazon Web Services amid debate over government tech

The Department of Homeland Security is migrating the system it uses to search for people using biometric data to Amazon’s… Read More

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How AWS Ground Station is taking its giant leap for satellite links in small steps

LAS VEGAS – Amazon CEO Jeff Bezos says his company has gotten so big that it has to branch out… Read More

Tech Moves: Google snags Georgia Tech AI professor; Apptio hires exec from AWS; The Riveter names Portland leader; and more

— Natural language processing expert Jacob Eisenstein is taking a gig as a research scientist with Google AI in Seattle.… Read More

GeekWire Cloud Summit is almost here: Learn from tech leaders at Slack, Microsoft, AWS and more

We’re just one week away from the third annual GeekWire Cloud Summit, which will feature some of the leading forces… Read More

Ground Station

AWS Ground Station satellite control system is officially open for business

Six months after a sneak preview, Amazon Web Services has just raised the curtain on AWS Ground Station, its cloud-based… Read More

Slack renegotiated its deal with Amazon Web Services in 2018, will spend at least $212M more through 2023

Slack revealed Friday that it joined the parade of companies that renegotiated long-term deals with Amazon Web Services over the… Read More

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Lockheed Martin joins the discussion about cloud computing services in space

Is the final frontier the next frontier for cloud computing? One of the presentations planned for Amazon’s re:MARS conference in… Read More

Working Geek: Amazon’s Nancy Wang helps women PMs make themselves heard via her nonprofit

While the number of women working in tech jobs in the U.S. has doubled over the past 20 years, they’re… Read More

Report: Amazon testing new program that connects outside investors with startups that use AWS

Amazon wants to connect startups using its cloud computing platform with deep-pocketed investors, according to a new report from CNBC.… Read More

Tech Moves: Smartsheet names AWS vet as CTO; Ex-Nike exec heads Grayl’s board; Indeed replaces CEO

Work collaboration software company Smartsheet nabbed AWS veteran Praerit Garg to lead technology efforts as the company’s first official CTO.… Read More

‘We cannot let the next generation down’: Women in Cloud Summit rallies crowd to turn the tide in tech

In college, Washington State Sen. Patty Kuderer decided to take a programming class. She said she was excited about technology… Read More

Geek of the Week: Kevin Lin walks the talk as he left Amazon to launch startup and host his own podcast

Kevin Lin is computer software engineer who has an endless curiosity about technology and people and he likes to keep… Read More

Azure vs. AWS for startups: Microsoft’s top marketing exec explains its strategy in the cloud

Startups were key to the early success of Amazon Web Services and most still favor the platform for cloud infrastructure.… Read More

Amazon unveils new service to mine and decode medical records using artificial intelligence

Sorting through and analyzing medical records is incredibly time-consuming, limiting the ability of patients, doctors and administrators to make connections and… Read More

Amazon launches ‘Amazon Future Engineer’ program to support computer science education

Amazon is officially launching a new program it calls “Amazon Future Engineer,” a broad, community-based push into schools and education… Read More

Why this top Amazon exec just placed a bet on a future Seattle NHL franchise

Andy Jassy runs the world’s largest cloud computing business. He also just joined an NHL franchise ownership group trying to… Read More

TLDR: Amazon crushes profit expectations, Trump targets Twitter in a tweet, Lego Hogwarts Castle

Today’s featured stories Amazon’s record quarter: $2.5B in profits is biggest ever as tech giant comes up just short on… Read More

TLDR: MLB commentary with robots, flying cars, facial recognition in schools

Today’s featured stories MLB partners with Amazon Web Services to predict pitches and analyze live games with robots Agent 007… Read More

MLB partners with Amazon Web Services to predict pitches and analyze live games with robots

Deeper stats, predicted pitches, and live commentary produced by robots in the voice of iconic announcers — it could all… Read More

Visualizing the cloud: Time-lapse takeaways from the GeekWire Cloud Tech Summit

Visual strategist Guillaume Wiatr has become a mainstay at GeekWire conferences, partnering with us to sketch out drawings and notes… Read More

Hear how Amazon Web Services, T-Mobile and PitchBook build hybrid cloud infrastructures at the GeekWire Cloud Tech Summit

More and more companies have realized that the cloud is a journey, not necessarily a destination. Once it becomes clear… Read More

Which president or first lady do you look like? Amazon helps provide answer in White House app

Amazon is helping to power a new app which offers virtual tours of the White House as well as a… Read More

GeekWire Cloud Tech Summit early-bird pricing ends Friday — register today

There’s just one more day left to take advantage of the early-bird pricing for the GeekWire Cloud Tech Summit, which… Read More

Tech Moves: Concur co-founder Mike Hilton joins Apptentive board; Samsung cloud leader lands at AWS; and more

Mike Hilton, the longtime Seattle tech executive best known as the co-founder of expense management company Concur, has signed onto… Read More

Tech Moves: Uber taps former Orbitz CEO as COO; Longtime AWS leader goes to Zendesk

Former Orbitz CEO and longtime Seattle technology leader Barney Harford has been named the COO of Uber, marking yet another… Read More

Future of live sports? How Amazon streamed NFL games to 200 countries and 600 types of devices

Signal acquisition, content ingestion, transcoding, ad insertion, playback optimization, and end-to-end monitoring probably weren’t top of mind for NFL fans… Read More

Amazon partners with NFL; Brooks uses biomechanics for new shoes; and more from this week in sports tech

[Love sports and technology? Sign up for our sports tech newsletter to receive this rundown from GeekWire’s Taylor Soper via email every… Read More

Report: Amazon to unveil ‘Alexa for Business,’ expanding voice assistant into workplace

Amazon is preparing to bring its Alexa voice-based assistant into the workplace, according to a report by CNBC this afternoon.… Read More

Amazon continues sports push, partners with NFL to power ‘Next Gen Stats’ with AWS

The National Football League is tapping Amazon Web Services to help power its “Next Gen Stats” platform. The NFL announced… Read More

Amazon Web Services unveils a $249 wireless deep learning video camera for developers

Amazon’s newest hardware product is meant to help developers run deep learning and image recognition models directly from a video… Read More

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