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How Andy Jassy helped Amazon own the cloud
Fortune
Major League baseball uses Amazon’s cloud to send real-time updates of player statistics to fans in all 30 of its stadiums. Regulator FINRA uses it to store and analyze more than 30 billion stock market transactions a day. Netflix (NFLX) relies on it to stream billions of hours of video every month to 50 million customers in 60 countries.
These Billion-Dollar Women Are Changing The Face of Silicon Valley
Marie Claire
"Unicorns"—companies valued at more than $1 billion—do exist, and their female CEOs are sharing how they built their empires.
Kardashian-Jenner apps: Up close and personal
Fortune
Fortune senior writer Leena Rao, who moderated yesterday's Apple Store event with the sisters, breaks down each app's perks and features.
Girls Who Code's Reshma Saujani
Veronica Beard
Reshma Saujani doesn’t believe in perfection. She believes we need to teach ourselves and the next generation of women how to be brave, take risks, and embrace fear—all of which she details in her New York Times bestseller, Brave Not Perfect.
How Lady Gaga’s Manager Became a Silicon Valley Force
Fortune
“It was like revenge of the nerds,” Carter, 43, told his wife, Rebecca, after leaving a 2010 barbecue at the Silicon Valley home of investor Joe Lonsdale. “The world was going into a very different place,” he recalls thinking. “And the power was shifting.”
The e-commerce giant could use a boost from U.S. brands—and vice versa. Will the relationship pay off for both sides?
Fortune
“Sniff, swirl, then swish.” An Italian-born sommelier guides a crowd of tasters through generous pours of velvety Robert Mondavi reds. Some of the well-dressed guests listen intently. Others clutch their glasses as they wander among lush gardens or settle at upright wine-barrel tables to nibble on cheese and charcuterie.
How Ruzwana Bashir Became Silicon Valley's Favorite British Import
TIME
The first time Ruzwana Bashir wore Western clothes was when she started as a student at Oxford University. Until then Bashir, who grew up in a tight-knit Pakistani community in northern England, wore a long shalwar kameez and a traditional Muslim head scarf every day.