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How AWS came to be
There are lots of stories about the formation of AWS, but this much we know: 10 years ago, Amazon Web Services, the cloud Infrastructure as a Service arm of Amazon.com, was launched with little fanfare as a side business for Amazon.com. Today, it’s a highly successful...
Facebook is facing an existential crisis
The Cambridge Analytica scandal has done immense damage to the brand, sources across the company believe. It will now take a Herculean effort to restore public trust in Facebook's commitment to privacy and data protection, they said. Outside observers think regulation...
10 Factors New Entrepreneurs Need To Remember
Being an entrepreneur takes skill and focus, as well as a good sense of timing. Without skill, you're not offering the market anything it will value. Without focus, the host of options and paths forward will send you in dozens of directions, wasting time and resources...
Apple is under fire for moving iCloud data to China
Apple's latest move in China has privacy advocates and human rights groups worried. The U.S. company is moving iCloud accounts registered in mainland China to state-run Chinese servers on Wednesday along with the digital keys needed to unlock them. "The changes being...
Amazon has created a computing platform that will future-proof your home
Almost four years ago, the New York Times tech columnist Farhad Manjoo wrote about a strategy to keep all your technology future-proof in a rapidly evolving environment. His advice still holds up: Use Apple hardware for your smartphone and PC. Use Google services for...
Tech’s Ethical ‘Dark Side’: Harvard, Stanford and Others Want to Address It
PALO ALTO, Calif. — The medical profession has an ethic: First, do no harm. Silicon Valley has an ethos: Build it first and ask for forgiveness later. Now, in the wake of fake news and other troubles at tech companies, universities that helped produce some of Silicon...