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Why Netflix Loves Amazon
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dailyfinance.com (2 months and 1 day ago)
Amazon Will Cease to Amaze
NEW YORK (TheStreet) -- For Amazon investors, the run higher has been nothing short of a storybook romance. So far, Amazon shares have encountered only small bumps on the way. It's easy to see why so many investors have fallen under the spell that valuations don't apply with Amazon. Even after Apple and Barnes & Noble created real competition for Amazon's Kindle, shares...
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The week in cloud: VMware fesses up; Amazon churns out features; Newvem watches Amazon
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Close to two-fifths of organizations now run private clouds in one form or another, and one-fourth are using public cloud services in an enterprise capacity. Private clouds are being extended deeper into the organizations that have them -- a majority expect to be running most of their workloads in the cloud within the next 12 months, especially Platform as a Service...
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