TechFlash: Amazon's cloud worth $10B; Tech leasing half of Seattle's office space

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Amazon's cloud business to hit $10 billion this year, Bezos says Amazon CEO Jeff Bezos revealed some figures for the online retailer's biggest business units while ruminating on the company's culture. Tech companies snag nearly half of all new Puget Sound-area leases From the top of Everett to the bottom of Tacoma, companies signed new leases – to relocate or expand – on a total of 8.4 million square feet since this time last year. 'Sand in the IPO gears' has this Seattle CEO waiting to go public Though it is interested in going public, Seattle legal advice portal Avvo is taking a wait-and-see approach to an IPO. Premera to offer employees wearable pain relief technology it found at CES Mountlake Terrace-based Premera Blue Cross is launching a pilot program for its employees to test a new wearable pain relief technology put out by NeuroMetrix in Massachusetts. Bezos: Amazon workers find 'our approach energizing and meaningful' In the Seattle-based company's annual letter to shareholders released Tuesday, Jeff Bezos said Amazon is a place that prizes innovation and where "failure and invention are inseparable twins." Amazon quietly bought up Silicon Valley image-analysis startup last year Most of the startup's team is reportedly now working for the online retail giant. Kirkland cybersecurity firm founded by AOL exec gets $2M in funding Kirkland-based Polyverse has raised $2 million in seed financing. The money will go toward hiring and product development. Amazon, Microsoft in talks to invest in technology linked to self-driving cars Such a deal could create a global platform for internet-connected cars linking technology from Amazon and Microsoft with prized German auto engineering. The power of tech money may lift commercial aircraft to supersonic speeds Tech entrepreneurs may be on the verge of developing a new genre of jet transports that will carry an elite group of people very fast, who are able to pay thousands of dollars for a ticket. National Tech News Portland startup wants to take the awkward meeting out of Craigslist buying Google elbows its way into political polling San Francisco hit harder than Silicon Valley in Q1 startup correction Google and Rackspace to tag team on new open source project for Facebook

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