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If you use Slack at work, Zoom for school or binge watch Netflix at home, guess what? You’re also using Amazon. Amazon Web Services currently controls 30% of the cloud computing market. The fourth installment in our series
The Prime Effect goes inside AWS, one of the biggest parts of Amazon you may have never heard of.
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Tim Bray, senior principal technologist, then VP and distinguished engineer at Amazon Web Services from December 2014 to May 2020. He quit Amazon due to moral concerns about the treatment of warehouse workers. (@timbray)
Apple has the strongest case in court battle with Epic
Michael Cusumano of the MIT Sloan School of Managment looks at the legal battle between Apple and Epic Games. The bone of contention: Apple s app store.
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Northern Kentucky brewer gets creative with business during pandemic
Bircus Brewing Company owner uses pandemic to get creative with business By Lauren Minor | May 3, 2021 at 1:08 PM EDT - Updated May 3 at 2:16 PM
LUDLOW, Ky. (FOX19) - The owner of Bircus Brewing Company has transformed the Ludlow Theatre into a place where customers can enjoy a cold brew while watching Circus Mojo.
Owner Paul Miller says the brewery is offering Juggling & Silk classes every Tuesday from 6:30 p.m. to 8:30 p.m.
Customers can also bring the whole family to the Circus Matinee shows on Saturdays and Sundays at 2 p.m.
Why Epic is burning its own cash to cook Apple
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The reason Epic’s
Fortnite to offer a payment mechanism that bypassed Apple’s 30 percent cut of all in-app transactions. Apple booted
Fortnite for violating its rules. Epic threw an… epic… hissy fit about this, culminating in the trial starting this week. While Epic has cobbled together an alliance called the Coalition for App Fairness along with Spotify, Match Group, Basecamp, and Tile there’s one more tech behemoth in play. Epic Games Store runs on Amazon Web Services. So does
‘Fortnite’ pretty much prints cash