GigaomRuh-roh. Rackspace brings Morgan Stanley aboard to evaluate its options
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Amazon is an electronic commerce company. It is the largest Internet based company in the United States. Amazon.com started as an online bookstore, but soon diversified, selling DVDs, VHSs, CDs, video and MP3 downloads/streaming, software, video games, electronics, apparel, furniture, food, toys, and jewelry. The company also produces consumer electronics — notably, Amazon Kindle e-book readers, Kindle Fire tablets, Fire TV and Fire Phone — and is a major provider of cloud computing services. Amazon has separate retail websites for United States, United Kingdom, France, Canada, Germany, Italy, Spain, Australia, Brazil, Japan, China, India and Mexico.
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IBM is hell-bent on achieving its promised earnings per share goal by next year. Analysts aren’t sure why it bothers. Read more »
Granted, most startups start in the cloud. But most companies still run resources of their own as well. CloudBolt has a proposition for customers who want to manage distributed resources from… Read more »
The buy gives cloud orchestration specialist Flexiant something to rival RightScale, and it wants to target a managed service provider market that it claims is underserved and in search of relevance. Read more »
No surprise: At TechEd 2014, Microsoft will tout Azure as the best public cloud to back-end current Windows and Office shops. Read more »
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Fear of litigation may have prevented cloud providers from adopting AWS APIs to begin with and today’s Oracle ruling may have proved them prescient. Read more »
Regardless of what happens with next week’s FCC vote, the whole net neutrality debate that’s gone off the rails. Read more »
Amazon is delaying shipments of many Hachette print titles as the companies fight over new terms. Amazon likely wants larger discounts on Hachette books. Read more »