Amazon Poised to Snag Massive Pentagon Contract; Industry Wants Trump to Intervene
If President Donald Trump is looking for a way to clip Amazon CEO Jeff Bezos’s wings, blocking a massive contract with the Pentagon could be one way to do it.
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Donald Trump: Amazon Ripping Off U.S. Post Office at Expense of American Taxpayer
President Donald Trump continued challenging online retailer Amazon.com for using the United States Post Office at a discounted shipping rate.
Amazon, Under Fire From Trump, Could Still Snag Multi-Billion Dollar Pentagon Contract
Despite President Trump’s public attacks on the company, tech giant Amazon is still in line to receive a lucrative contract to exclusively provide cloud services to the Department of Defense.
IBM Acquires Israeli Data Startup
American computer hardware behemoth IBM Watson is buying Israeli start-up Cloudigo, its founder said on LinkedIn over Rosh Hashana weekend.
Amazon Web Services Now Approved to Host Defense Department Secrets
The United States Department of Defense has granted provisional authorization for Amazon to host “Impact Level 5” workloads.
North Korea Nukes Driving California ‘Star Wars’ Defense Boom
North Korea flying missiles over Japan and detonating a potential 100-kiloton hydrogen bomb just turbo-charged what was already the beginning of a Southern California “Star Wars” defense boom.
Silicon Valley: ‘Software as a Service’ Stocks get Clobbered
With less than a week until Valentine’s Day, investors’ love affair with Silicon Valley continues to come undone as the tech-stock heavy NASDAQ Index plunged on the Feb. 8 opening down 3.5 percent.
Dell-EMC Merger Creates $80B Giant to Join Cloud Era
The $67 billion Dell-EMC merger–a record-breaking offer in Silicon Valley–is an effort to take a Valley behemoth private in order to make the disruptive changes necessary to become a dominant force in the coming cloud computing era.
