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Amazon Just Announced It Will Pay Employees $10,000 and 3-Months Salary to Quit and Do This Instead

Amazon is breaking paradigms everywhere these days. They have competitors of all kinds reeling and are innovating on everything from retail store format to how a HQ location is selected. They’re at it again, announcing this week, of all things, a new program that incentivizes employees to quit their job. The company announced they will pay two to three months salary and $10,000 in startup costs if an employee will quit their post and start a package delivery service.… Read more

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Accentures Acquires French Google Cloud AI Consulting Firm

As Google Cloud Next opened today in San Francisco, Accenture announced its intent to acquire Cirruseo, a French cloud consulting firm that specializes in Google Cloud intelligence services. The companies did not share the terms of the deal. Accenture  says that Cirruseo’s strength and deep experience in Google’s cloud-based artificial intelligence solutions should help as Accenture expands its own AI practice.… Read more

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​Linux now dominates Azure

Three years ago, Mark Russinovich, CTO of Azure, Microsoft’s cloud program, said, “One in four [Azure] instances are Linux.” Then, in 2017, it was 40 percent Azure virtual machines (VM) were Linux. Today, Scott Guthrie, Microsoft’s executive vice president of the cloud and enterprise group, said in an interview, “it’s about half now, but it varies on the day because a lot of these workloads are elastic, but sometimes slightly over half of Azure VMs are Linux.” Microsoft later clarified, “about half Azure VMs are Linux.” That’s right.… Read more

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Speak computer? These programming languages are in high demand

Here are the programming languages you should learn if you always want to have a job. “Software is eating the world,” venture capitalist Marc Andreessen famously declared. Someone has to write that software. Why not you? There are thousands of programming languages, but some are far more popular than others. When a company goes out to find new programming talent, they’re looking for people familiar with the languages and systems they already use — even as relatively newer languages like Apple Swift or Google Go start to make a splash.… Read more

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With Google Reader gone, can FeedBurner be far behind?

Google’s gradual euthanasia of RSS products does not bode well for the future of RSS technology. Here’s what you can do. Yesterday evening Google announced it would abandon the Google Reader RSS feed-reading app on July 1. That isn’t Google’s first blow to RSS technology. In last year’s “spring cleaning in summer,” Google cast away the easily customized iGoogle RSS-aggregating website, effective Nov.… Read more