Cargo ships are stacked up outside ports, and empty shipping containers are in short supply, as are the truck drivers who would take them to market. This is not the time for doing business as usual.
Cloud infrastructure market hits $180B run rate in Q3, as even chip shortages can’t slow it down
The Big Three cloud infrastructure vendors — Amazon, Microsoft and Google — all reported earnings this week. As you might expect, they did just fine with a growing market that passed $45 billion worldwide, good for a mind-boggling $180 billion run rate and trailing 12 month revenue of $164 billion. Revenue grew 37% overall in […]
Amazon stock falls on revenue miss, rising costs due to macroeconomic conditions
It’s very hard to feel poorly for a company worth around $1.75 trillion, so we won’t. But shareholders of Amazon stock are taking on a bit of water in after-hours trading this afternoon. Amazon reported its Q3 2021 results today after the bell, detailing its recent performance that included a top-and-bottom miss on revenues and […]
Microsoft and Alphabet trounce investor growth expectations
The two companies put up solid growth numbers, made a zillion dollars between them and spent a collected $23.5 million on shareholder-friendly activities. It’s a good time to be a tech giant.
a16z, Base Partners cook up $15M in funding for Colombia cloud kitchen concept Foodology
Foodology collects data on user preferences and cross-references that with nearby food options in a geographical area to manage the end-to-end creation of original dishes with delivery.
Plaid overhauls Plaid Link SDK with simplicity in mind
Since 2015, Plaid has helped developers connect users to banking information using an SDK (software development kit) called Plaid Link. As Plaid describes it in its SDK documentation, “The Plaid Link SDK is a quick and secure way to link bank accounts to Plaid in your … app.” Up until recently, the catch was that […]
ドコモの通信障害でウーバーイーツ配達員に影響。複数回線やデュアルSIMに注目が集まる
朝日新聞の記事によれば、14日のドコモ通信障害の影響により、宅配大手のウーバーイーツ配達員が混乱を来したそうだ。彼らはスマートフォンなどのアプリで注文依頼を受けることから、ドコモの通信障害で圏外となったことで宅配業務に支障が出たという。ウーバーイーツでは特定の配達回数のノルマをこなせば、報酬が上乗せされる「クエスト」という仕組みがあるが、14日はその「平日クエスト」最終日にあたる木曜日だったことから、報酬面でも影響が出たようだ。配達員からはトラブル対応のため複数回線を持つ必要があるのではといった声も…
気象庁、気象等や噴火に関する特別警報メールの配信終了計画をいったん見送り
気象庁は 15 日、12 日に発表した緊急速報メール配信の見直しをいったん見送ることにしたと発表した(報道発表資料)。
気象庁ではさまざまな防災情報を配信するプッシュ型通知サービス普及を理由として、気象等および噴火に関する特別警報の緊急速報メール配信を 10 月 28 日をもって終了すると 12 日に発表していた。なお、緊急地震速報や津波警報等に関する緊急速報メールは見直しの対象になっていない。
しかし、配信の終了により避難に必要な情報を得られなくなるなどの懸念の声が出たため、見送りを決めたとい…
Cisco Wants To Climb Back the Way Microsoft Did
The networking giant says it has turned a corner in its attempt to adapt to the cloud era. From a report: Cisco is hardly a failure. It produces billions of dollars in annual profits and is generally regarded as stable and well-run. But investors feare…
Google Cloud Will Now Show Its Users Their Carbon Footprint In the Cloud
Google Cloud today announced a new (and free) feature that will provide its users with custom carbon footprint reports that detail the carbon emissions their cloud usage generates. TechCrunch reports: “Customers can leverage this data for reporting as …