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EMC CEO Joe Tucci Makes His Case For Hybrid Cloud Era

EMC and its spinoff, VMware, along with their progeny called Pivotal, make a formidable trio as IT firms aim to survive and thrive in the cloud computing era. The Internet cloud proffers a new kind of competition. Amazon (AMZN), Microsoft (MSFT) and Google (GOOG) have been attracting more companies to infrastructure-as-a-service, or IaaS, where customers rent servers and storage resources as needed. EMC (EMC), the No. 1 data storage company, is

Amazon crows about topping Apple in streaming video

Amazon.com (AMZN) on Tuesday crowed about topping Apple (AAPL) and Hulu in streaming video usage last month, even though it’s still a distant No. 3 behind market leader Netflix (NFLX) and Google’s (GOOG) YouTube. The Seattle-based e-commerce giant said in a press release that it had passed both Apple (AAPL) and Hulu in streaming video usage. Amazon said video streams on its Prime Instant Video service nearly tripled year over year, citing data from Qwilt, a provider of online video delivery and transparent caching solutions. “We’ve invested hundreds of millions of dollars in great TV shows and movies for Prime members, and it’s working,” said Bill Carr, vice president of digital video and music for Amazon (AMZN) . “As part of their membership, Amazon Prime members can watch their favorite movies and television shows on an unlimited basis, and as we add original content like ‘Alpha House,’ ‘Bosch,’ ‘The After,’ ‘Mozart in the…

Amazon Prime Fee Hike Might Slow Revenue Growth

Amazon.com could face a backlash for hiking the annual membership fee on its Amazon Prime service to $99 from $79, a survey shows. The higher cost might nudge some shoppers to drop their Prime memberships and buy fewer items on Amazon (AMZN), according to findings from the survey by research firm Bizrate Insights. The increase comes at a time when complaints are surfacing about prices charged for some third-party goods sold on Amazon.com and as