Cloud Stocks: Amazon Raises Stakes in AI with $200 Billion Investment

The invest in AI frenzy continues with Amazon (NASDAQ: AMZN) announcing $200 billion AI related capital investment this year. Like other tech players, Amazon wants to invest heavily in building infrastructure and computing power for AI.

Amazon Finally Reveals its Cloud Financials

Lately, Amazon (Nasdaq: AMZN) has started revealing more financial details about their business segments. Last quarter, they spoke about Prime and this quarter, they shared a peek into the world of their cloud business. And, the market is pleased with what they saw.

Thought Leaders in Cloud Computing: Pradeep Rathinam, CEO of Aditi Technologies (Part 7)

SM: Last question, when you look around, what are some of the interesting entrepreneurial opportunities that are opening up because of the wide adoption of platform-as-a-service as it unfolds? PR: If you’re an entrepreneur today, your startup cost is incrementally low. If you have a good idea, to execute on an idea, you can leverage

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Thought Leaders in Cloud Computing: Pradeep Rathinam, CEO of Aditi Technologies (Part 6)

SM: Let me get another piece of clarification here. So, Microsoft is playing this game both at an isolated platform-as-a-service level as well as an integrated platform-as-a-service plus infrastructure-as-a-service, is that correct? PR: That’s correct. SM: Whereas Amazon is just playing infrastructure-as-a-service, Rackspace is playing the infrastructure-as-a-service game, Microsoft Azure, I presume, can be lowered

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Thought Leaders in Cloud Computing: Pradeep Rathinam, CEO of Aditi Technologies (Part 2)

SM: Let’s double click down on each of the areas that you discussed. How much are you familiar with what’s happening in the world of small software companies – software companies, in general – using software-as-a-service to get out into the market with new solutions? One of the case studies that I have looked at

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Thought Leaders in Cloud Computing: Matthew J. Schitz, CEO of Symform (Part 3)

Sramana Mitra: What’s the revenue level of your company? Matthew J. Schitz: Revenues we don’t release, I’m sorry. We’re a privately held company. But our revenues are significant. And they’re growing quickly. We’re growing at 50% quarter over quarter right now. SM: Just give us a range. Is it a $50 million company, a $100

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Thought Leaders in Cloud Computing: Matthew J. Schitz, CEO of Symform (Part 2)

Sramana Mitra: I guess the obvious question, one you must get all the time, is, is it safe? Matthew J. Schitz: Yes. It’s interesting, because when I was CEO at DocuSign, at the same stage of the company, we were pioneering electronic signatures. The market at that time was signing things on paper. The first

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The Promise Of E-Commerce

Whichever way you look at it, the web has become the place for commerce. Online spending grew again over 2011, and the growth rate has outpaced that of traditional brick-and-mortar stores. While many chain retailers’ online sales are growing, their store sales are shrinking. For the longest time, entrepreneurs wanting to venture off on their

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