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  Amazon Web Services aims to make life easier for Windows developers

  Amazon Web Services (AWS) now allows ASP.NET developers to take advantage of Elastic Beanstalk, which has been developed to make it easier to roll out cloud-based applications, the company said on Tuesday.

• Apple, Amazon drive US stocks higher

  Tech giants Apple and Amazon have proved their mettle to doubting investors once again, leading US stocks higher in the week as the markets showed they had not yet run out of steam.

• Wall Street Beat: Tech earnings provide some bright spots

  With Apple leading the revenue charge midweek and Amazon providing a kick to trading in tech shares Friday morning, bright spots appeared in what has otherwise been a mixed earnings season.

• Friday Grok: Dotcom results — very good news, with more to come

  The dotcom sector is blitzing it. Apple, Amazon, Facebook and Zinga have all reported this week, and while commentary has been a little mixed around some of the results, the reality is that the view from the cockpit of the helicopter is spectacular.

• Amazon Web Services simplifies creation of private clouds

  Amazon Web Services has made it possible to create private clouds using CloudFormation, which automatically creates stacks of resources described using templates, the company said on Wednesday.

• Greenpeace's sign to Amazon, Microsoft: 'How clean is your cloud?'

  Activists at Greenpeace intensified their environmental criticism of Amazon and Microsoft today by posting signage near the Seattle offices of both companies questioning the cleanliness of the companies' clouds.

• Amazon cloud set stage for rapid Pinterest growth

  The explosive success of the social networking service Pinterest wouldn't have been possible without the easy scalability of the Amazon cloud services, an executive for Pinterest said.

• Apple, major publishers sued over e-book pricing

  The United States Department of Justice has sued Apple and five major book publishers, accusing them of colluding to raise e-book prices.

• Will Google tablet sales frag or defrag the Android market?

  For consumers who don't live and breathe Android, the market can be confusing. There are dozens of phone models, many running different versions of the Android operating system.

• OpenStack development finds big growing pains

  It's been an interesting past few weeks for OpenStack.

• Amazon uses nearly half a million servers to power EC2, researcher estimates

  Although most end users never get a clear view of the infrastructure underlying the services they consume via Amazon's Elastic Compute Cloud, Accenture Research Manager Huan Liu recently estimated that a whopping 454,400 individual blade servers are currently being used to power that product.

• Talent pool not big enough to meet skyrocketing cloud computing job demand

  The number of job postings in the cloud computing industry is growing so rapidly that there aren't enough qualified workers available to fill the positions, according to an analysis of hiring trends by Wanted Analytics.

• Android Market hits 450K apps, challengers abound

  Google's Android Market is nipping at the heels of Apple's iOS App Store in terms of number of offerings.

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  Evolve 2012: TechnologyOne invests $200m in new Cloud platform

  Australian enterprise software company, TechnologyOne, has launched a Cloud service for customers, flagging plans to invest $200 million over the next five years in research and development of the platform.

• Citrix simplifies Cloud service management

  Citrix is shipping a new version of its Cloud management software, CloudStack, that makes it simpler for service providers and large businesses to manage and provision Cloud services.