Jiyoung Sohn, reporting last week for The Wall Street Journal ( News+ link):Ĭonsumers around the world are increasingly choosing Apple Inc.’s iPhone Gaining in Popularity Worldwide, Especially With Younger People ★ Twitter: We’d like to renegotiate our AWS contract.Īmazon: Fuck you, pay us. I would imagine the negotiations have been going something like this: Renegotiating a contract like this is like asking to renegotiate your poker bet after you’ve lost the hand. It’s a lot easier to bully around smaller companies, and stiff them on their bills. AndĪmazon has resisted renegotiating the contract, the person said. Year contract signed in 2020, is now at least $70 million. Is supposed to have spent on AWS services, under a five and a half That’s a drop in the bucket compared to what Twitter owes AWSīased on a long-term contract the companies struck, said a personįamiliar with the situation. Twitter paid AWS $10 million for cloud services it used, but Network for months refused to pay its Amazon Web Services billsįor cloud computing services, according to two people familiar Payment for advertising it runs on Twitter because the social Told by their colleagues that Amazon had threatened to withhold Squeezing to save money are also its advertising clients.Īs recently as last month, Twitter sales and marketing staff were Phony Stark Stiffed Amazon on Twitter’s AWS Bill, So Amazon Threatens to Pull Its Ads ★Įrin Woo, reporting for The Information (paywalled, alas):Įlon Musk is running into an obstacle in his relentless drive toĬut costs at Twitter: some of the same vendors that Twitter is
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