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NO, AWS WILL NOT BE SPUN OUT AS A SEPARATE COMPANY (for now)

Wired on AWS: In the first half of 2015, revenue from AWS jumped 65 percent and accounted for 7 percent of Amazon’s overall revenue—and 37 percent of its profits. Though they share some infrastructure, AWS and Amazon’s e-commerce and hardware businesses are very...

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...