Episode 284: That’s Mr. Jeff to you - a podcast by Software Defined Talk LLC

This week we discuss Amazon’s new CEO, AWS&GCP Earnings and Facebook vs. Apple. Plus, should you sign up for Clubhouse…?
RundownBezos out, Jassy In, AWS Earnings
Email from Jeff Bezos to employees (https://www.aboutamazon.com/news/company-news/email-from-jeff-bezos-to-employees)Amazon's cloud division reports 28% revenue growth; AWS head Andy Jassy to succeed Bezos as Amazon CEO (https://www.cnbc.com/2021/02/02/aws-earnings-q4-2020.html)
Amazon earnings: Q4 sales topped $100 billion for the first time, Bezos to step down as CEO (https://finance.yahoo.com/news/amazon-reports-4q-2020-earnings-results-152012181.html)Jeff Bezos to step down as Amazon CEO, Andy Jassy to take over in Q3 (https://www.cnbc.com/2021/02/02/jeff-bezos-to-step-down-as-amazon-ceo-andy-jassy-to-take-over-in-q3.html)
Amazon.com Announces Financial Results and CEO Transition (https://www.businesswire.com/news/home/20210202006100/en/Amazon.com-Announces-Financial-Results-and-CEO-Transition)GCP Earnings
Google’s cloud business lost more than $5.5 billion last year, but it’s growing fast (https://www.theverge.com/2021/2/2/22263048/google-cloud-loss-alphabet-q4-2020-earnings)Charted: How Google Cloud stacks up to AWS (https://www.axios.com/newsletters/axios-login-3914ced2-78c9-4856-929f-e802e8c474e6.html?chunk=2&utm_term=emshare)
Google Cloud lost $5.61 billion on $13.06 billion revenue last year (https://www.cnbc.com/2021/02/02/google-cloud-lost-5point61-billion-on-13point06-billion-revenue-last-year.html)VC Money
Honeycomb Raises $20M to Define the Future of Observability (https://www.honeycomb.io/blog/honeycombio-closes-series-b-funding-round/)Databricks Raises $1 Billion Series G Investment at $28 Billion Valuation (https://databricks.com/company/newsroom/press-releases/databricks-raises-1-billion-series-g-investment-at-28-billion-valuation)
EOL’dGoogle is shutting down its in-house Stadia game development studios (https://www.theverge.com/2021/2/1/22260803/google-stadia-game-development-studio-shut-down-jade-raymond?utm_campaign=theverge&utm_content=chorus&utm_medium=social&utm_source=twitter)
The writing’s on the wall for Google Stadia (https://www.theverge.com/22260994/google-stadia-platform-white-label-option)IBM Blockchain Is a Shell of Its Former Self After Revenue Misses, Job Cuts: Sources (https://www.coindesk.com/ibm-blockchain-revenue-misses-job-cuts-sources)
Tim Cook May Have Just Ended Facebook (https://www.inc.com/justin-bariso/tim-cook-may-have-just-ended-facebook.html)Apple and Facebook (https://stratechery.com/2020/apple-and-facebook/)
Pentagon Hints It Could Abandon the JEDI Cloud Effort (https://www.nextgov.com/it-modernization/2021/01/pentagon-hints-it-could-abandon-jedi-cloud-effort/171753/)Relevant to your interests
Google salvaged Robinhood’s one-star rating by deleting nearly 100,000 negative reviews (https://www.theverge.com/2021/1/28/22255245/google-deleting-bad-robinhood-reviews-play-store)Robinhood Raises $3.4 Billion to Fuel Record Customer Growth (https://blog.robinhood.com/news/2021/2/1/robinhood-raises-34-billion-to-fuel-record-customer-growth)
Lawmakers Look at GameStop Furor and See a Populist Issue to Seize (https://www.nytimes.com/2021/01/31/us/politics/gamestop-robinhood-democrats-republicans.html?referringSource=articleShare)A Brief History of Web Design Tools (https://medium.com/relate/a-brief-history-of-web-design-tools-9a75aff2d861)
WeWork in Talks to Combine With SPAC or Raise Money Privately (https://www.wsj.com/articles/wework-in-talks-to-combine-with-spac-or-raise-money-privately-11611857306)What went wrong with America’s $44 million vaccine data system? (https://www.technologyreview.com/2021/01/30/1017086/cdc-44-million-vaccine-data-vams-problems/)
No Meetings, No Deadlines, No Full-Time Employees (https://sahillavingia.com/work)iCloud Passwords Chrome Windows extension now available (https://9to5google.com/2021/01/31/apple-icloud-passwords-chrome-windows/)
Docker Hub and JFrog Partnership Removes Image Pull Limits for Artifactory Users (https://www.infoq.com/news/2021/01/docker-jfrog-partnership/?utm_campaign=infoq_content&utm_source=infoq&utm_medium=feed&utm_term=global)
Amazon Faces Familiar Opponent in Alabama Union Election (https://www.wsj.com/articles/amazon-faces-familiar-opponent-in-alabama-union-election-11612098000)Here’s Why We’re Co-Creating Our Future with Google (https://medium.com/@ford/heres-why-we-re-co-creating-our-future-with-google-d6bd49bf497b)
Why You Should Also Switch to Linux (https://www.americanpurpose.com/blog/fukuyama/why-you-should-also-switch-to-linux/)Elon Musk: Neuralink enabled monkey to 'play video games using his mind' (https://www.businessinsider.com/elon-musk-neuralink-monkey-plays-video-games-using-his-mind-2021-2?amp)Ford and Google sign six-year deal for in-car connectivity and cloud services (https://www.cnbc.com/2021/02/01/ford-and-google-sign-six-year-deal-for-android-in-car-apps-cloud.html)
IBM cuts back on blockchain as COVID cuts hit (https://www.axios.com/ibm-blockchain-bitcoin-7742b4be-d935-4060-ab78-501e3fd6175a.html?utm_source=newsletter&utm_medium=email&utm_campaign=newsletter_axioslogin&stream=top)
Mask-wearers will be able to unlock their iPhone with the Apple Watch (https://techcrunch.com/2021/02/01/mask-wearers-will-be-able-to-unlock-their-iphone-with-the-apple-watch/?utm_source=newsletter&utm_medium=email&utm_campaign=newsletter_axioslogin&stream=top)
Azure Quantum is now in Public Preview - Microsoft Quantum (https://cloudblogs.microsoft.com/quantum/2021/02/01/azure-quantum-preview/)Atos And DXC Technology Deal ‘Not For The Faint Of Heart:’ Analyst (https://www.crn.com/news/channel-programs/atos-and-dxc-technology-deal-not-for-the-faint-of-heart-analyst?cid=nl_alert&mkt_tok=eyJpIjoiT0RKak1tTXdNR1ptTmpkbCIsInQiOiJRcitJSDJqN1FPWGorbFhIalVGclllRkZrZkRTZXFlWnQ5TnFvbm02cUtNbStibFVNRUJMdzBtT0VHOElWdCtcL3Z5QW9iYmF1N1RuYzJvbktnaXJIMWo4aVlNXC95dG9Yb2JcL1gxZkxpVW5ZdXo3SVwvSkRyTCticEJ4WTNcL0xVTmljIn0%3D)
Tesla to recall more than 130,000 cars following regulators' pressure (https://www.cnbc.com/2021/02/02/tesla-to-recall-more-than-130000-cars-following-regulators-pressure.html)Nonsense
Refrigerators Are Finally Embracing the Good Ice (https://gizmodo.com/refrigerators-are-finally-embracing-the-good-ice-1846044367)AWS CEO fake Job Post (https://pbs.twimg.com/media/EtQN0w_XEAYcNMB.jpg)
20,000 honey bees took over a tech company’s empty office during lockdown (https://qz.com/work/1965925/20000-honey-bees-took-over-a-tech-office-during-covid-19/)Battle Chess : Interplay : Free Download, Borrow, and Streaming : Internet Archive (https://archive.org/details/battle_chess_1988)
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