TechFlash: AWS ups stakes in cloud battle with Microsoft; JetClosing raises $2.3M

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Big Amazon Web Services deal ups the stakes in cloud battle with Microsoft AWS will provide the majority of Capital One's cloud infrastructure over the next five years as the financial services giant migrates business operations into the cloud. Microsoft is becoming more male despite diversity efforts Microsoft diversity executive Gwen Houston blamed a continued decline in Nokia-related jobs as Microsoft sheds it phone hardware business. Pioneer Square Labs spin-out JetClosing raises $2.3M JetClosing will use the $2.3 million in seed financing to continue developing its cloud-based mobile app that makes closing on a home more efficient. Mpirica Health partners with Welvie to deliver surgery scores Mpirica CEO Shakil Haroon said the partnership gives his company access "into the massive Medicare and Medicare Advantage market, which includes 57 million enrollees." WGU Washington Chancellor Jean Floten is stepping down after five years Floten has been working in higher education since 1968 and hopes to do some project-based consulting in that field. National Tech News Menlo Park approves general plan update that allows for Facebook corporate dorms Here's how Apple is revamping its Maps service Former Amazon engineer disrupts baby registry industry 17-year-old smart glasses maker scores $58M in first round of funding Chinese regulators suspect bigger iPhone battery problems ​Sales of Google Pixel beat the iPhone on Black Friday, kind of

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