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Hey Mickey, You’re So Fine: Meet the Man Who Landed Silicon Valley’s Hottest Funding Deal in Pinterest

Kara Swisher in Commerce on May 17 at 9:29 am PT

The $1.5 billion valuation can still blow your mind.

Netsuite Turns Commerce Into a Cloud Service

Arik Hesseldahl in News on May 15 at 3:30 pm PT

To the growing list of things that can be sold “as-a-service” you can now add commerce. And create a new acronym: CaaS.

Eucalyptus, Creator of Roll-Your-Own Cloud Platform, Raises $30 Million

Arik Hesseldahl in News on April 18 at 7:08 am PT

It used to be a big headache to move workloads between a public cloud provider like Amazon and a privately operated data center. It no longer has to be.

Dear Amazon Shareholders: Our Customers Adore Us! Love, Jeff Bezos.

Tricia Duryee in Commerce on April 13 at 9:40 am PT

Customers, yes, but Apple and the book-publishing industry — not so much.

In PC Numbers, HP Investors See a Light at the End of the Tunnel

Arik Hesseldahl in News on April 12 at 4:38 pm PT

PC sales weren’t horrible, so investors cheered the world’s largest PC maker. It’s nice, but it’s not where HP needs the most success.

Amazon Sees No Reason to Slow Its Spending

Tricia Duryee in Commerce on February 1 at 3:40 am PT

Amazon defended its free-spending habits yesterday in a call with analysts, arguing that it continues to see new opportunities and will invest accordingly.

Voices

Microsoft: The $71 Billion Cloud Underdog

Nick Mehta, CEO, LiveOffice in Voices on December 20, 2011 at 12:31 pm PT

If I say “cloud computing,” what companies come to mind? Amazon’s Web Services? Google’s cloud-based collaboration tools, Google Apps? How about Microsoft?

News Byte

Amazon Adds a Cloud Data Center in Oregon

Arik Hesseldahl in News on November 9, 2011 at 12:15 pm PT

Amazon Web Services, the Web retailer’s for-hire cloud computing unit, said today that it has opened a new data center in Umatilla, Oregon. The company is the latest on a growing list that includes Google and Facebook to locate a data center in Oregon. Amazon says customers who host their services at this data center will pay 10 percent less than they would at Amazon’s data centers in California and Virginia.

Voices

Google, Amazon Hiring for “The Cloud”

Damian Ghigliotty, Reporter, FINS in News on October 14, 2011 at 10:53 am PT

Five years ago, when Adam Selipsky started marketing Amazon’s Web-based storage, computing and database services, now commonly known as “the cloud,” a lot of executives would ask him, “What does this have to do with selling books?”

“We Are Absolutely in a Feature Race,” Says Bradley Horowitz of Google+

Liz Gannes in Social on October 12, 2011 at 6:14 pm PT

While some are writing Google+ off for its apparent falling usage or for not being enough of a platform, Google+ VP Bradley Horowitz asks for a little patience.