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Amazon's Challenge to Business: Turn Off Your Datacenter

Whenever we interview startups (which will be often here on FastCompany.TV) we hear "we're an Amazon shop" quite frequently. What does that mean? Well, for photosharing service SmugMug it means saving a ton of money by having Amazon ...READ»

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Find a Better Price on Banks

Let’s say you need to buy a CD from a bank. Did you know the interest rate can vary up to two percentage points? I didn’t. I thought they were commodities that were pretty much the same price at every bank. I learned that by ...READ»

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Rackspace Acquires SliceHost To Engage Cloud-Based Businesses

Rackspace last week bought SliceHost, which enables them to more effectively compete with Amazon and Microsoft in the area of cloud-based web services. Here Matt Tanase and Jason Seats, co-founders of SliceHost explain why they are ...READ»

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Rackspace's CTO Explains Its Moves

Rackspace, last week, made a couple of interesting acquisitions. John Engates, Rackspace's CTO, wraps up what the acquisitions mean. See the Rackspace webcast archive online HERE.READ»