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Re:Salesforce Signs Definitive Agreement to Acquire Slack by naringas on Tuesday December 01, 2020 @04:21PM (#25270065)
however amazon is not really a tech-first company, their main business is retail (even if a lot of their revenue comes from AWS).
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Re:Salesforce Signs Definitive Agreement to Acquire Slack by cafed00d on Tuesday December 01, 2020 @04:25PM (#25270127)
I would say Amazon’s main business is commerce. They want to be involved everywhere people are buying/selling things. AWS & Amazon.com are coincidences of them starting up around the same time as the internet.

Before long, they’ll own the entire feature for “oh, I need to buy cereal. Alexa buy me cereal. Ok, done. <few mins later>. I’m passing by the Amazon Go store on way home, Alexa. Can I return these shoes I bought last week and pick up my cereal there. Sure.”

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Re:Salesforce Signs Definitive Agreement to Acquire Slack by 98codes on Tuesday December 01, 2020 @04:25PM (#25270124)
Quite the other way, they're a cloud company with a gift shop.
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Re:Salesforce Signs Definitive Agreement to Acquire Slack by greenshackle2 on Tuesday December 01, 2020 @04:25PM (#25270116)
Retail is the lion share of revenue but AWS is over half of profits last I checked.
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Re:Salesforce Signs Definitive Agreement to Acquire Slack by patmorgan23 on Tuesday December 01, 2020 @10:30PM (#25272948)
Retail is Amazons biggest revenue (raw cash) generator. AWS is amazons biggest profit (cash after expenses) generator.
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Re:Salesforce Signs Definitive Agreement to Acquire Slack by ncn on Wednesday December 02, 2020 @02:13AM (#25273956)
You’ve got it backwards. Their main business is aws.
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Re:Salesforce Signs Definitive Agreement to Acquire Slack by codegladiator on Tuesday December 01, 2020 @04:26PM (#25270138)
please stop with this meme ? meme is not tech first for whatever definitions of /tech first/ you have.
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Re:Salesforce Signs Definitive Agreement to Acquire Slack by runawaybottle on Tuesday December 01, 2020 @05:02PM (#25270590)
Tech first: Your main product is technology.
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Re:Salesforce Signs Definitive Agreement to Acquire Slack by 8note on Tuesday December 01, 2020 @09:41PM (#25272702)
But then google is not a tech company either? Their main product is advertisements.
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