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Yahoo migrates its advertising tech infrastructure to the cloud, leveraging AWS’s industry-leading technologies to innovate digital experiences for leading brands and publishers LAS VEGAS, December 01, 2022–(BUSINESS WIRE)–At AWS re:Invent, Amazon Web Services (AWS), an Amazon.com, Inc. company (NASDAQ: AMZN), today announced that Yahoo has selected AWS as its preferred public cloud provider for its advertising technology business Yahoo Ad Tech. Building on its longtime relationship with… Source link

LONDON, Nov 29 (Reuters) – European home improvement retailer Kingfisher (KGF.L) has agreed a five-year partnership with Google Cloud , a move it said should provide customers with faster and more intuitive searches, and better tailor product ranges. The company, which owns DIY brands B&Q and Castorama, and trade-focused Screwfix and TradePoint, increased online sales during the pandemic when stores were closed and customers spent more on home improvements. E-commerce sales were up 138% over… Source link

German developer Ib Vogt has started to build the 149MWp Garnacha solar power plant in the Spanish province of Zamora, and signed a 12-year power purchase agreement (PPA) for its output with US internet giant Google. The developer has started construction of the project near the city of Toro in northwestern Spain in September after receiving €90m in long-term project financing by Norddeutsche Landesbank Girozentrale (NORD/LB) and Santander Corporate & Investment Banking (Santander CIB),… Source link

Web giant Google has signed a 12-year power purchase agreement (PPA) with German developer Ib Vogt for output from the 149MW Garnacha solar plant in the Spanish province of Zamora. The developer has started construction of the project near the city of Toro in northwestern Spain in September after receiving €90m ($93.4m) in long-term project financing by Norddeutsche Landesbank Girozentrale and Santander Corporate & Investment Banking, and plans to start operations by October next year. … Source link

Alphabet has doubled the headcount in its Google Cloud unit since early 2019, according to data obtained by The Information, outstripping Alphabet’s overall hiring growth. The rapid growth helps explain why Google Cloud’s losses continue to widen even as its revenue grows rapidly. Google’s hardware unit and YouTube also each roughly doubled headcount between the first quarter of 2019 and this fall. And the number of employees working in marketing and finance roles across Google… Source link

Matt Brittin (pictured), president of Google Europe, Middle East and Africa, said the move is due to two new clean energy projects that bring additional clean energy to the grid. “This announcement is the result of our first-ever long-term power purchase agreements (PPAs) in Spain and the UK: 100MW of offshore wind from Engie in the UK, and 149MW of solar energy from IB Vogt in Spain,” said Brittin in a post on Google’s blog. He said: “Since 2017, we’ve matched 100% of our… Source link

Google Cloud has partnered with SuperGaming to offer the Indian gaming startup’s proprietary gaming engine, SuperPlatform, to developers worldwide, the latest in a series of recent steps from the Android-maker to expand focus into the gaming industry. The cloud arm of the search giant said Thursday that as part of its partnership, it will offer the Pune-headquartered startup’s gaming engine to help developers worldwide to help them manage their live ops, matchmaking, player… Source link

Google Cloud has partnered with SuperGaming to offer the Indian gaming startup’s proprietary gaming engine, SuperPlatform, to developers worldwide, the latest in a series of recent steps from the Android-maker to expand focus into the gaming industry. The cloud arm of the search giant said Thursday that as part of its partnership, it will offer the Pune-headquartered startup’s gaming engine to help developers worldwide to help them manage their live ops, matchmaking, player… Source link

To show investors that its cloud unit could compete with Amazon Web Services, Google in recent years signed billion-dollar, long-term deals with multinationals such as Deutsche Bank and Sabre. Google incentivized sales teams to nail those deals by basing a portion of their commissions on the value of the contracts—even if those customers didn’t actually spend the full amount on Google Cloud services. Those days may soon be over. As companies pull back on cloud projects and Google’s… Source link

Google Cloud is relentless in its efforts to transform healthcare. This week, at one of the world’s largest healthcare innovation conferences, HLTH, the organization announced yet another step forward: the launch of three new Healthcare Data Engine (HDE) accelerators which will aim to address pertinent issues that plague healthcare delivery. The overarching goal of these accelerators will be to utilize Google Cloud’s powerful platform to increase healthcare data accessibility,… Source link