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Amazon’s new CEO Andy Jassy in ‘hot seat’ as Alabama workers consider union Updated Feb 07, 2021; Posted Feb 07, 2021 AWS CEO Andy Jassy, discusses a new initiative with the NFL that will transform player health and safety using cloud computing during AWS re:Invent 2019 on Thursday, Dec. 5, 2019 in Las Vegas. (Isaac Brekken/AP Images for NFL)AP Facebook Share By Katherine Khashimova Long The Seattle Times (TNS) and Tribune Media Services Andy Jassy’s first seat at Amazon when he joined the company in 1997 was in an office “the size of a closet” in an earl...

9 min read An Irish ‘fulfilment centre’ will make shopping easier, but it has downsides for consumers and smaller retailers Jeff Bezos has had an excellent pandemic. Since the global crisis began a year ago the Amazon.com founder and chief executive has seen his net worth jump by €59 billion to €156 billion. His pile of money has grown by an average of €160 million a day or €1,850 every single second since the world started keeping its distance and washing its hands with the vigour of a heart surgeon heading into an operating theatre. Based on such growth, Bez...

By Louise Grimmer, Senior Lecturer in Retail Marketing, University of Tasmania Jeff Bezos has announced he will stand down as chief executive of Amazon in the third quarter of 2021. The founder of the online retail behemoth will hand the reins to Andy Jassy, who currently leads Amazon’s cloud computing wing. The announcement comes after an enormously successful 2020 for Amazon despite (or perhaps because of) the COVID-19 pandemic, with operating cashflow up 72% from the previous year to US$66.1 billion, and net sales increasing 35% to US$386.1 billion. Amazon has its share of detractors, w...

Courtesy Amazon Uncovering and explaining how our digital world is changing — and changing us. After 27 years, Amazon will have a new CEO for the first time. When Jeff Bezos steps down in July, he’ll be replaced by Andy Jassy, a company executive who joined Amazon in 1997, only three years after its founding. Jassy has for the last 15 years run Amazon Web Services, Amazon’s unsexy but innovative and highly profitable cloud computing business that controls about a third of the cloud industry and powers websites big and small all across the globe. Jassy will be taking the helm as Amaz...

Reseller News Join Reseller News Sign up to gain exclusive access to email subscriptions, event invitations, competitions, giveaways, and much more.Sign up now We need a new way to think about open source Open source companies and cloud providers are at war over who gets to profit from open source software. To help resolve that problem, we just might need new licensing. Credit: Dreamstime Open source is about community, so why can’t we get along? I’m referring to the recent fracas between Elastic and AWS, but we’ve dealt with similar issues for many years. In this most rec...