2/28: Amazon outage breaks large parts of the internet; YouTube to launch pay OTT service




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Roku Got Close to $400 Million Revenue in 2016 (Variety)
Roku is reported to be raising at least $200 million at a $1.5 billion valuation.

Comcast coy about revised DOCSIS 3.1 rollout strategy following Tuscaloosa announcement (FierceCable)



YouTube, the world’s biggest video site, wants to sell you TV for $35 a month (Recode)


Comcast Takes Full Control of Japan Theme Park in Global Push (Bloomberg)

Hersheys to reduce global workforce by 15 percent (Reuters)






Amazon outage breaks large parts of the internet (Engadget)

Amazon’s web servers are back online after more than four hours of disruption (The Verge)



Why It’s So Hard to Build the Next Silicon Valley (Bloomberg)

Salesforce Revenue Forecast Falls Short as Cloud Rivals Gain (Bloomberg)




Philadelphia to offer free rent to lure suburban companies: Report
(Philadelphia Business Journal)
Sounds like it might be targeted toward WeWork. Need more info as to how this came about.


Workday's CEO says turmoil with Oracle's acquisition of NetSuite helped bolster a historic quarter (CNBC)
DuPont is a Workday customer, and Workday confirmed yesterday that it is assisting Dow Chemical in anticipation of the merger being completed.


Workday Falls: FYQ4 Beats, Street Annoyed ‘Billings’ View Taken Away
(Barron's Tech Trader Daily)


Changes in Oracle's Report Card
( Bill Kutik/HR Executive Online)


Why eBay’s Former CEO Is Joining This $1.4 Billion Cloud Company (Fortune)
John Donahoe was CEO of eBay when it acquired GSI Commerce in 2011. He left Michael Rubin with what turned out to be its most valuable business - Fanatics. How's Michael Rubin's Fanatics doing? OK.



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