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Three issues in and Garth Ennisâs latest comic, âJennifer Blood,â is looking like a rare misfire. Too light and empty to be read seriously, not funny or biting enough to be read as a comedy, it falls somewhere between in the land of mediocrity. The idea of a housewife acting a violent, Punisher-esque vigilante at night has potential, but, so far, Ennis hasnât tapped into it. The only thing that makes this issue an improvement at all over the first two is Adriano Batista not drawing the whole thing with Marcos Marz stepping in to finish drawing the comic.
The issue begins with a slightly humorous scene where a neighbor tries to come on to Jennifer by exposing himself in a bathroom during a barbeque. Itâs a broad sort of humor that allows for Ennis to write some over-the-top dialogue, but never inspires the laughs itâs going for. From there, the plot shifts into automatic with Jennifer reflecting on how she canât get close to any of the other wives and going about her mission of revenge. We learn a little more about what she wants, but itâs so mundane that thereâs little to separate it from dozens of other revenge-driven stories.
A big flaw of the series to date has been Batistaâs art and the way it looks on the page. On a superficial level, it comes off as amateurish. It looks like it was printed at a copy shop instead of by a professional comic book publisher. The difference when Marz takes over the art in this issue on just that superficial level is striking. The production quality increases a lot and the comic looks better for it.
Ignoring that criticism, Marzâs art has a cleaner, more direct look to it. Batistaâs style is muddled and cluttered, unable to depict anything but the broadest of emotions and reactions. Itâs suited to the over-the-top scene that begins this issue and not much else. Any scene that requires nuance or more subdued art doesnât get it.
Not that Marz is perfect. His art has a flat, lifeless look to it that sterilizes the book. But, given the two options, a more subdued style complements Ennisâ writing better. By presenting whatâs happening in a straight forward manner, the absurdity of the writing comes out better. It changes from cartoonish to more biting in its humor.
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Broken Age is a point-and-click adventure game (a notably high-profile entry into the genre that indie developers have been dabbling in since such games largely fell by the wayside over time) created by Double Fine. It was overwhelmingly funded between February 8 and March 13 of 2012 on Kickstarter under the working title Double Fine Adventure. The studio raised 3.3 million dollars through Kickstarter alone. Similarly to how Kickstarter-funded games have shown developers that gamers are still interested in playing classic, D&D-esque RPGs, this monumental fundraising has undoubtedly helped rekindle a love for point-and-click adventures.
However, things did not go entirely smoothly for Double Fine after the Kickstarter campaign ended. The estimated delivery for the game was October 2012. While delays are a common plague in the industry, gamers were even more incensed when Double Fine did finally release Broken Age on January of 2014, but only the first half. Although part 1 of the game was received well, gamers made their criticisms clear and it only contributes to the current state of Kickstarter backlash (which isn't to say that many video game projects don't still get funded). Finally, well over a year later, the full game is available to the public, and to celebrate this fact, Steam is having a sale.
People interested can now acquire it at 30% off, $17.49 for just the game, or $20.99 for the game and soundtrack combo. The sale price expires May 3. And those who backed the game on Kickstarter can experience the full game that they were promised.
If you want to know a bit more about the game, check out the launch trailer that Double Fine released.
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In addition to the current weekend deal, Valve also introduced a platform for the avid modding community to sell their work. While there are mixed feelings floating around the internet about introducing paid mods to the world of Steam, it certainly is a change, and it will allow mod creators a return on investment for all of the time they put into their programming.
While the paid mods change is planned to be permanent, the free-to-play weekend and weekend sale will only last until April 27, so get it while it's hot.
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For anyone who hasn't been following, Blizzard is finally entering the realm of the MOBA, a game type which arguably started on the Blizzard platform of Warcraft III as a user generated game called Defense of the Ancients (based on another Blizzard user created offering called Aeon of Strife in Starcraft).
Since these games became wildly popular, numerous offerings have entered the market such as League of Legends, Heroes of Newerth, Dota, and Smite. While many of these titles employed map designers for the Warcraft III renditions of Dota, Blizzard was left behind.
Now, Blizzard is entering a market that they helped create with guns (and blades, and weird alien things) a blazing. Heroes of the Storm will allow gamers to play as some of their favorite characters from the big Blizzard franchises including Starcraft, Warcraft, and Diablo.
Heroes of the storm officially launches on June 2, with an open beta for PC beginning May 19.
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Diddy Kong has long been identified as an overpowered character in this Smash Bros rendition, but players now report that many of his skills have been nerfed – had their damage reduced – for sake of balancing with the other fighters. This comes along with a whole array of either increasing or decreasing the damage and ultimate effectiveness of some of the fighters' moves.
All information comes from devoted gamers who have been tracking changes. There is an entire Reddit community dedicated to the task, with a full list of what has been discovered so far here.
In addition to multitudes of combat-balancing changes, there have also been some interface changes, AI adjustments, and a couple of bug fixes. A wealth of Mewtwo related content was also added to the game. Players who are active Club Nintendo users and had registered their two versions of the game prior to March 31 received their download codes for a complimentary Mewtwo yesterday, but Mewtwo is slated to release to the general public on April 28th as a $4.99 DLC package.
We'll have to see how Nintendo continues to support and improve the player experience for Super Smash Bros.
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The game is set in 2029, two years after the events of Deus Ex: Human Revolution (released in 2011). It is reportedly going to be a direct sequel, and in the screenshots, the previous games protagonist Adam Jensen can be seen as the player-character. This game should explore the consequences of the events of Human Revolution, though Kanobu suggests that importing saves from the previous entry will not be a feature, meaning that the studio will have to decide on which choices made in Human Revolution are cannon, or true to the history of the world.
While this strategy has gone over well in some games, some fear a blunder, as the previous transition between Deus Ex and Deus Ex 2 was viewed as somewhat of a faux pas.
Along with updated graphics, the new AI is suggested to be much more challenging, giving all types of players a more interesting experience.
After the leak, Game Informer confirmed that Mankind Divided will be the cover of its May issue. While there is no release date at the moment, the game is slated to come out on Playstation 4, Xbox One, and PC.
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Along with these titles being introduced to the Wii U virtual console, Nintendo revealed a plan to release other N64 and DS titles in the weeks to come. Fans of the older games will appreciate titles like Donkey Kong 64 (which originally came out on the Nintendo 64 system in 1999), Mario Kart DS (which saw its premier on the Nintendo DS back in 2005), and Paper Mario (which was a 2001 Nintendo 64 title) rolling out to the Wii U virtual console store this month.
Nintendo had announced back in 2014 that some DS titles would eventually come out on the Wii U virtual console, but this month will mark the first time a DS title has been ported to the Wii U.
While some of these titles were previously available for the Wii virtual console, it will be the first time they are available on the current generation of consoles.
Pricing for the downloadable games has been stated to be between $9.99, and $12.99, and a total of seven games from a combination of the Nintendo 64 and Nintendo DS titles have been announced for the month of April.
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Along with getting the game at release, Playstation users will have exclusive access to a series of missions featuring the Scarecrow, and a plot to unleash a fear-toxin over Gotham. In addition to the bonus missions, there will also be a couple of character costumes, and a vehicle skin that are exclusive to the Playstation platform. In a world where platform-exclusive titles are becoming increasingly rare, securing these additional features will certainly sway some gamers towards the PS4 version.
In addition to the game, the Limited edition bundle includes a "steel gray" PS4 system and an exclusive PS4 faceplate featuring a silhouette of Batman and the bat emblem. The limited edition bundle includes the 500GB system, a matching controller, and the Arkham Knight game. It, and the regular-edition (which includes a standard black PS4 and standard black controller) are available for preorder through Amazon and Best Buy.
Pricing for the Limited Edition is $449.99, but as we've seen with limited run systems, these hot-ticket items tend to go quickly.
Pricing for the standard bundle is $399.99
Batman: Arkham Knight is set to release June 23, 2015.
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Along with the launch of Season 3, Blizzard touts that they will be updating to patch 2.2.0, which comes with a host of new or reworked items and new conquests, or season-specific achievements.
For people who are not familiar with the Season system in Diablo III, it is similar to the ladder system of previous Diablo entries. To play in season 3, a new character must be created in the new season, and only current-season characters can play with other current-season characters, and access current-season leaderboards.
Blizzard has introduced features that are unlike previous entries as well, though, such as items that are season-exclusive until the end of a season, at which point they will become available to others.
Seasonal achievements have also been given a tune-up, and between Normal and Hardcore game modes, there are a whopping 100 new achievements for players to challenge themselves with in the coming Season.
In addition, cosmetic rewards for seasonal participation are available, up to and including a new portrait frame. Full cosmetic rewards will only be awarded to players who gain 100+ seasonal achievement points, and level a new character to 70.
If this seems like a lot of information to handle, this little infographic can help you keep track of it all:
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Just recently, Blizzard collected all images of the new and upcoming Blackrock Mountain cards in one place on their facebook. If you want to get a look at what's headed your way soon, check it out here. The gallery includes all 31 of the cards so players can start theorycrafting new decks and new ways of playing.
These new cards seem to be pushing synergy with using dragon-type cards and it will be interesting to see how those interact with the dragons that already exist in the game.
Additionally, you can preorder the Blackrock Mountain expansion currently for $24.99 in order to unlock an exclusive card back. However, you only have until the expansion actually releases to preorder!
If you don't want to get your wallet out, then be grinding that in-game gold so that you can unlock the content when it drops! Each wing will cost 700 gold or $6.99, making the preorder bundle a good value if you're looking to pay real money.
To keep better track of how to get your hands on the expansion, check out the helpful infographic that Blizzard created below:
Blackrock Mountain hits on April 2nd, so be sure to review those cards and have a strategy going in!
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The most notable feature in the update list is easily the suspend/resume, which will allow gamers to navigate in and out of most games (not all are supported, but Sony says that most are) with the simple press of your PS button. This is similar to the way the Nintendo DS or PS Vita's sleep modes work. When you're done with the game for a moment but don't want to completely turn the system off, you can simply press the PS button. When you're ready to come back, press the PS button again and the game is there waiting for you right where you left off.
Another nice feature will allow gamers to back up their hard drive information onto a USB drive, ensuring that they do not lose their data in the case of a hardware failure.
Other updates revolve around the social aspects of PS4. Yukimura promises more social tools and a way to share your earned trophies with others. Bragging rights, here we come.
Sony hasn't given word on just how large this update will be, but they certainly do seem to be delivering on the promise of listening to what gamers have to say and catering to them.
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A Richfield man, 30 year old Alan Askwith, was arrested Friday evening on suspicion of driving while under the influence, illegal discharge of a firearm, crualty to animals, obstructing justice and more. Askwith was driving south on highway I-15 between Nephi and Santaquin, when he allegedly pulled out a handgun and shot a dog sitting on the passenger side floorboards. In the process of shooting the dog in his vehicle, Askwirth also hit his wife in the leg.
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Shares of VMware (VMW) are down $2.77, or almost 4%, at $69.50, continuing to digest yesterday's news that Dell will buy VMware's majority shareholder, EMC (EMC), and VMware will become a tracking stock.
While that tracking stock risks flooding the public float of VMware, effectively, causing dilution, something that's debated, the shares this morning are under pressure from something else: Patrick Walravens with JMP Securities cut his rating VMware from Market Outperform to Market Perform, warning that the company should be concerned about Amazon.com's (AMZN) growing influence in the virtualization world via its Amazon Web Services cloud computing service.
Amazon may be taking away workloads that typically run on VMware virtual machines, he argues.
"VMware's greatest challenge is competitive pressure from Amazon Web Services (AWS)," writes Walravens, "exemplified by General Electric's comments last week that it plans to shift 60% of its workloads to AWS over the next three years while reducing its number of data centers from 34 to 4."
"As other enterprises follow GE's lead, we think vendors such as VMware that sell software for data centers may come under increasing pressure."
Walravens bases his assessment on the presentation last week by General Electric's (GE) CIO, Jim Fowler, at the Amazon.com re:invent conference in Las Vegas. "
"GE is not alone," writes Walravens. "Capital One Chief Information Officer Robert Alexander indicated that his company plans to operate three data centers by the end of 2018, down from the eight centers it currently operates."
"The company suggested that it would be able to reduce its data center footprint largely due to efficiencies gained through its usage of AWS, upon which its new mobile apps were built."
Turning to the Dell/EMC deal, Walravens is skeptical the hoped-for synergies will be achieved with VMware:
While there are potential revenue synergies, we worry whether they will be achieved. CEO Pat Gelsinger indicated that he expects VMware to recognize ~$1B in revenue synergies over the next few years [...] While we like Mr. Gelsinger and see the potential, we worry that achieving synergies with VMware will not be the first priority of the combined business. First, one industry source familiar with the situation suggested that Mr. Dell's first focus will be on fixing EMC's supply chain and scaling the business so it can compete on price in a market that is rapidly becoming commoditized.
Given the Amazon threat, and the Dell buyout, he doesn't believe VMware should have its premium anymore:
VMware currently trades at a 2016E P/E multiple of 16x, a 33% premium to the large cap software peer group median multiple of 12x, which we believe is no longer merited given the competitive challenges and potential disruption from the Dell/EMC merger.
Shares of data center services provider Rackspace Hosting (RAX) opened higher this morning but are now down 44 cents, or 1.8%, at $24.75, after The Wall Street Journal's Robert McMillan yesterday reported that the company is teaming up with Amazon.com (AMZN) to suppott the latter's Amazon Web Services operations, citing two unnamed sources.
McMillan writes that the companies plan to unveil the partnership next week, at Amazon's "re:Invent" conference in Las Vegas, though both declined to comment.
In note to clients today, Evercore ISI's Jonathan Schildkraut, who has a Hold rating on the stock and $38 price target, writes that it's a good thing but the payoff may be less than investors hope for:
We support the strategic shift to offer Fanatical Support on third party infrastructure, where AWS has dominated customer adoption. However, we remain concerned, as (1) the market for AWS support services is highly competitive, (2) leading providers in the space are generating only $100MM of annual revs (relative to RAX's current $2.0B+), and (3) we see a long lead time to establish revenue generating contracts and secure lighthouse customers. Thus, even if RAX were successful in building a market position – against an existing $2.0B+ revs business – the new strategic direction is unlikely to reverse decelerating top- line growth any time soon.
The Street continues to evaluate the disclosure last Thursday afternoon by Amazon.com (AMZN) of the financials for its Amazon Web Services, which surprised the Street by turning out to be profitable.
Stifel Nicolaus's Scott Devitt this morning opines it's a chance to compare Amazon, whose shares he rates Hold, to Alibaba Group Holding (BABA), whose shares he rates a Buy, arguing it's the better e-commerce investment.
Argues Devitt, Alibaba is growing faster than Amazon's traditional retail e-commerce operations yet the shares have a lower multiple:
"Following the break out of the AWS business Amazon shares are increasingly being valued on a sum-of-the-parts basis, which is contributing to a positive re-rating of the shares," writes Devitt."
Applying a 5.5x multiple on 2016E AWS revenue, in-line with a basket of cloud and SAAS competitors, results in a $52B valuation for the business. This implies a $153B valuation for the Amazon eCommerce business or just under a 1.0x multiple of 2016E GMV, over twice the multiple of Alibaba, which is growing GMV at over 2x that rate of Amazon. This begs the question of whether the spread is justified. We expect the gap to close over time. The manner in which the gap narrows is up for debate.
Amazon shares today are down 75 cents at $444.35, while Alibaba is up 80 cents, or 0.9%, at 85.37.
Amazon.com (AMZN) shares continue to surge this morning, up $57.11, or almost 15%, at $447, as upgrades roll in for yesterday afternoon's better-than-expected Q1 report and the first-ever disclosure of the financials of its cloud computing service, Amazon Web Services.
In addition to Raymond James and Janney Montgomery Scott, as noted earlier, J.P. Morgan's Doug Anmuth today raises his rating to Overweight from Neutral, and hikes his price target to $535 from $375.
Anmuth actually cites three reasons:
1) accelerating FXN revenue growth to 22% driven by EGM strength; 2) increasing commitment to profitability with 60bps of Y/Y CSOI margin expansion to 3.1% with additional Retail room going forward; and 3) AWS profitability far exceeding expectations with mid-teens CSOI margins driving a re-rating and higher SOP valuation.
Anmuth is delighted with AWS's profit:
The AWS breakout was very highly anticipated, but we think the reported profitability level far exceeded virtually all expectations. CSOI margins of 17% in 1Q15 and 14% in 2014 have been driven by increasing scale and greater utilization, along with additive services beyond core EC2 and S3 services. When factoring in heavy depreciation, AWS has EBITDA margins of around 50%. We expect the cloud business to remain competitive overall, and Amazon will also frequently cut prices on its own, but we are encouraged that improving scale and efficiency can help offset potential pricing pressures.
While some others on the Street value AWS at perhaps 6 times projected revenue, Anmuth thinks it's worth 16 times, or $66 billion, and he offers the following back-of-the-envelope math (click to see the image larger):
Shares of Amazon.com (AMZN) are up $58.80, or 15%, at $448.79, and hitting a new all-time high of $449.25, building on last night's gains, after the company yesterday beat Q1 expectations, forecast this quarter below, and blew away the Street announcing financials for its Amazon Web Services business for the first time.
By far the biggest feature of the report was the disclosure that AWS, as it's known, far from losing money, makes 17% operating profit margin, on an adjusted basis.
"This is a good quarter; the shorts are going to struggle here," said Jim Cramer on CNBC a short while ago, marveling at the revelation about AWS.
As analysts contemplate that shocker this morning, they of course are noting that the implication is the profit margin on simple retail sales of books and appliances and the rest is even lower than they'd thought, below 2%.
Price targets are zooming, and the stock has gotten two upgrades today, from Raymond James's Aaron Kessler and from Janney Montgomery Scott's Shawn Milne.
Raymond James's Kessler, raising his rating to Outperform from Market Perform, with a $485 price target, notes improving overall margins for the business: "Non-GAAP operating margin of 3.1% was ~100 bp above our/consensus estimates driven by improved gross margins and modestly lower than expected operating expenses. Amazon also guided 2Q margins above consensus at the high end."
He notes that " AWS operating margin of 17% was significantly above our/Street expectations for flat/negative margins."
Here's Kessler's sum-of-the-parts valuation model for Amazon:
Kessler raised his estaimtes for this year to $103.968 billion from $103.18 billion, but he cut his profit estimate to $3.29 from $3.51.
However, for the out year, he raised both revenue and profit, from $122.79 billion and $5.59 to $125.14 billion and $6.69.
Janney's Milne, raising his rating to Buy from Neutral, with a fair-value estimate of $488, writing that ". AWS disclosure (much more profitable) was a curve ball vs. investors 'expectations' showing lower N.A. retail margins of 2.5% vs. ~5% expectations."
However, "incremental margins in N.A. Retail are improving ~ 4% in Q1 – at the same time revenue growth accelerated – underscoring productivity efforts."
He sees a path to greater profitability: "Added clarity on improving retail margins, strong 3P growth, and fast growing/profitable AWS suggests more upside opportunity to CSOI."
Amazon's segmenting of its AWS unit was the big surprise of Q1 with AWS segment margins of 16.9% in Q1, 14.2% in FY14 — well ahead of general Street thoughts that AWS was in "investment mode," and losing 5-10% (or more). As such, N.A. retail margins were 2.5% in fiscal 2014 — down from 2.8% in fiscal 2013 largely due to the Fire Phone mess which accounted for ~$100 million margin hit in Q3. Importantly, post the Q4 call where the CFO talked about focus on fixed and variable cost productivity, Q1 N.A. retail margins showed strong improvement at 3.9% (or within striking distance of prior expectations with incremental margins of 8.7% – underscoring productivity efforts and leverage on heavy Prime investments (contents/FCs, etc.)
Amazon.com (AMZN) this afternoon reported Q1 revenue and earnings per share that topped analysts's estimates, and a lower-than-expected forecast, sending its shares higher in late trading.
Revenue in the three months ended in March rose to $22.72 billion, yielding a net loss of 12 cents a share.
Analysts had, on average, been modeling $22.37 billion and a loss of 14 cents.
CEO Jeff Bezos for the first time disclosed numbers for the company's cloud computing operations, AWS:
Amazon Web Services is a $5 billion business and still growing fast — in fact it's accelerating. Born a decade ago, AWS is a good example of how we approach ideas and risk-taking at Amazon. We strive to focus relentlessly on the customer, innovate rapidly, and drive operational excellence. We manage by two seemingly contradictory traits: impatience to deliver faster and a willingness to think long term. We are so grateful to our AWS customers and remain dedicated to inventing on their behalf.
Amazon sees revenue this quarter of $20.6 billion to $22.8 billion, below consensus for $22.1 billion.
The company sees operating income this quarter in a range of negative $500 millioni to negative $50 million.
Amazon reported net sales for the AWS unit rose to $1.57 billion in the quarter, up nearly 50% from the year-earlier quarter. The segment had an operating profit of $265 million, or 17%, which is likely much higher than Street expectations. (See the note from J.P. Morgan this afternoon.)
Amazon management will host a conference call with analysts at 5:30 pm, Eastern time, this evening, and you can catch a webcast of it on the company's investor relations home page.
Update: After a brief decline, Amazon shares have bounced back sharply, now up $17.01, or 4.4%, at $407, in late trading.
Amazon.com (AMZN), hosting its "AWS Summit" in San Francisco for its Amazon Web Services, today, announced a number of new initiatives, including a "Marketplace" in which to buy desktop applications delivered over the Internet, a new set of tools for managing files, the "Amazon Elastic File System," and a new service for helping companies make predictions.
The company also made a pitch that more and more companies are moving all their computing to AWS, and talked up companies that are doing so, such as publisher Time Inc.
Amazon shares rose 47 cents to $381.67 following the presentation.
The EFS is the "missing piece" in Amazon's cloud computing storage initiative, said Andy Jassy, senior VP for AWS. He billed it as a "file system that grows and shrinks, automatically."
Among the benefits of the software is that it means customers for cloud computing don't have to buy storage in advance, they will be billed just for the storage their file systems requirements demand: "With Amazon EFS, you pay only for the storage used by your file system. You don't need to provision storage in advance and there is no minimum fee or setup cost."
The technology, which will be in preview mode this summer. If you want to be in that beta test, you can sign up on the AWS Web site.
Following are a few slides from the presentation noting the attributes (click on the pictures to see them in a larger version):
In addition to EFS, Amazon announced it will be offering something called a "Machine Learnings Services," which allows customers to mine the data they have on Amazon servers to construct predictive models for "billions of predictions," with far greater ease, said Amazon, than traditional data scientists must bring to bear.
AWS's general manager, Dr. Steve Wood, explained customers will be able to use just three steps: "build model; validate & customize; make predictions."
The service is available today.
Turning to the database market, Jassy said customers were chomping at the bit for a new database, as shown by attempts to move to technologies such as MySQL. "We get asked all the time is there something you can do that will let us have the same performance characteristics as commercial databases, but as cost-efficient as open databases."
He said the answer was last year's debut of "Aurora," a new database cost one tenth the price of offerings from the commercial world. The database has been in test mode so far.
Desktop computing, another thing Amazon wants to fix, said Jassy, is the virtualization of the desktop. Amazon's "WorkSpaces" offering, unveiled last year, as become one of the "fastest-growing AWS services," he said.
Not just desktops, but applications people use on these desktops have had the same limitations," said Jassy. And so, Amazon will offer two things "AWS Marketplace for Desktop Applications," and "AWS WorkSpaces Application Manager." Jassy said the offerings would change how desktop applications are purchased and managed by companies.
In other developments, Amazon said it would offer expanded use of "containers," a means of making applications "virtual," developed by a number of companies such as San Francisco startup Docker. Jassy said the software would "make it simple to scale containers up and down."
"We think this makes AWS the best place to run containers in production," said Jassy.
Jassy also discussed something called the "Lambda" computing service. In past, companies had to pay for an "instance" of computing each time an event happened in their app. But with Lambda, each action by a user would spin-up an instance of computing, handle all the scaling and managing, and would only incur costs for each hundreds of a millisecond used.
He said customers running Lambda use them to respond to Internet of Things events, databases, and other uses. "It was interesting to us how many mobile developers were using it. They wanted to offload to AWS. They really needed to be able to call Lambda directly."
Jassy announced the company was adding "a whole bunch of new functions to Lambda" to let mobile developers "call" the functions directly from their applications, "to spin up Lambda functions, set a trigger, perform a function based on what the notification says." He noted Lambda will be available to Java developers in coming weeks.
Deriding the approaches of "some other vendors" of cloud, a clear reference to Microsoft's (MSFT) "Azure," Jassy said that Amazon takes "a different view" on cloud computing, arguing that "over the next several years, we believe the vast majority of workloads will move to the cloud."
Jassy joked, too, about former Oracle (ORCL) executive Chuck Phillips's quip that "friends don't let friends build data centers." He said that an increasing number of companies are moving all of their computing tasks to AWS.
Guest of honor, in that respect, was Colin Bodell, the CTO of publisher Time Inc., who had previously been at Amazon for 8 years. He spoke about why Time is "going all-in on AWS" in converting its IT.
Bodell told the assembled that when he first joined Time, 13 months ago, he took an inventory of the company's IT resources. Among them was an entire floor of data center on the 21st floor of the Time building on Sixth Ave. in Manhattan.
"We leverage all the services AWS offers so we don't have to build them ourselves," said Bodell.
Time, he said, was using some of the most expensive real estate in the world for a data center. Bodell said the company hd moved all its UK publications "100%" to AWS. "Our hosting costs went down from $70,000 a month to $17,000," said Bodell. He said the company was looking to move its traditional enterprise applications over as well.
"I want to be out of the data center business completeley," he said. By the end of 2015, the company will be out of two data centers, will have scaled down a third, and will be "all moved across" by Q1.
Bodell said using AWS was leading to a "cultural change" at Time.
"The more we do on cloud, it helps us bring in much more agile development … the speed of development has really picked up dramatically, because the staff have so much more power at their fingertips."
Wrapping up the day's talks, Jassy compared cloud computing to third-party sales of retail goods, which Amazon resisted at first on its own site. Eventually, he said, Amazon realized that third-party sellers could be good for consumers, and Amazon felt compelled to embrace third parties on its own Web sites as a "better way of doing things" in some cases. Today, third parties make up 43% of good sold on Amazon, he noted.
Similarly, said Jassy, cloud computing is "the biggest change to computing in our lifetimes," and has many companies were scared. But, he said, customers ultimately want it, and everyone should learn to embrace it.
"The cloud is providing all of us with an unbelievable opportunity to completely reinvent our businesses."
Shares of Amazon.com (AMZN) are surging, up $36.14, or almost 12%, at $347.92, after the company yesterday afternoon reported a much-higher-than-expected Q4 profit per share despite sales coming in slightly below expectations.
The stock's rise comes despite the fact the forecast for this quarter's revenue is lower by a billion dollars, and the company is forecasting a loss of as much as $450 million versus Street expectations for an operating profit of $130 million.
But the big focus today is the higher operating profit, called "consolidated segment operating income," or CSOI, which rose 18%, faster than the 15% rise in revenue, and was 3.5% of revenue at $1.04 billion.
That, and what the Street views as a new "messaging" about profitability that may be less brutal, more positive.
For example, Tom Szkutak, CFO, noted that "the teams are putting even more energy and attention on driving what we would call fixed expense and variable expense productivity, as well as other efficiency projects."
Among the factors helping profitability was the fact that fulfillment costs in the quarter stayed roughly flat at 11.3% of revenue even though revenue rose by 15%.
Another positive in the quarter was 53% growth in paid members to the company's "Prime" membership service. Szkutak said growth was even faster overseas than it was domestically. That came despite the fact that the company actually raised the price of Prime last year.
Analysts also like that the company said this quarter it will start to report separately the revenue for its cloud computing division, Amazon Web Services.
There are no ratings changes yet, that I can see, but price targets are zooming left and right.
Stephen Ju, Credit Suisse: Reiterates an Outperform rating, and raises his price target to $410 from $389. "Higher than expected CSOI dollars on moderating shipping losses this quarter served as confirmatory data points on our 'return to normalcy' investment thesis for 2015, which is starting to play out. And we believe AMZN will continue to reap the margin benefits from fulfillment center maturation and shipping fee savings from its expanded footprint as this is not just a one-quarter dynamic. AMZN also disclosed that it will begin showing AWS as a separate operating segment in 1Q15 – which will motivate investors to refocus on Amazon's expanding core retail gross profit margins on the aforementioned FC maturation and rapid growth of paying Prime members (up 53% YOY)."
Victor Anthony, Topeka Capital Markets: Reiterates a Buy rating, and raises his price target to $410 from $350. "Gross margins expanded by 302bps, the largest increase since 4Q12, off course aided the accounting for AWS, but also driven by growth of third party units, which AMZN noted is growing faster than first party. Also positive given that the video content spend of $1.3B in 2014 is within COGS; EBITDA margins expanded by 149bps to 8.7% and pro-forma operating margins expanded by 60bps to 4.0%. Worldwide Prime memberships jumped 53% YoY in 2014, with growth of 50% YoY in the U.S. and faster growth internationally. Impressive, given the price increase earlier in the year, which is serving to offset, partially, the cost of video content spend. By the way, video content is serving as an effective customer acquisition tool for Prime. But we wonder, given the successes of recent programming at award shows and Amazon Studios producing and acquiring movies for theatrical release, if Prime Instant Video could be offered as a standalone service to consumers."
Robert Peck, SunTrust Robinson Humphrey: Reiterates a Buy rating, and raises his price target to $370 from $360. "Gross profits grew 28%; with record gross margins of 29.5% actually rising in the quarter vs. traditional seasonality. Ex. Other gross margins also expanded Q/Q on the strength of 3P sellers, FBA, and a more efficient network. N. American operating margin of 5.4% is the best in 3yrs and beat estimates, "proving" the model can work – management discussed a focus on expense "efficiency"; Prime users up 53% Y/Y with the additions of video providing a positive lift to retention and conversion; Media growth was 0% – there are both comp issues and structural issues at play – but largely speaking the comps issues begin to ease in 2Q. Comps ease in 2Q and beyond – both the AWS price cuts and Japanese tax increase occurred in April, hurting comps for 2H of 2014. Total Rev growth of 18% ex Fx at high end of guidance; 3P sellers accounted for 43% of units and unit growth was 20%."
Daniel Kurnos, The Benchmark Company: Reiterates a Buy rating, and raises his price target to $425 from $350. "The bulk of the revenue shortfall came from International, reflecting a negative $895 million FX impact along with moderating growth, while North America was predominantly in line with expectations. Investors continue to "forgive" companies impacted by the weaker Euro and softening Eurozone economic conditions, and we suspect that, while revenue forecasts may come down, Amazon may receive the benefit of the doubt for more modest top-line growth due to international softness through at least 1H15. Amazon engagement metrics including 53% y/y growth in paid Prime membership in 2014 and 65% growth in sellers using FBA are also likely to contribute to a more positive long-term view despite a modest q/q and y/y deceleration in paid unit growth to 20% from 21% in 3Q14 and 25% in 4Q13, respectively."
Scott Tilghman, B. Riley & Co.: Reiterates a Neutral rating, but raises his price target to $312 from $296. "AMZN shares were up mid-single-digits after the earnings announcement and subsequently jumped to over 12% after the reported disclosure enhancement. (We continue to believe that separating AWS from Amazon would be difficult, which in turn would make SOTP analysis moot offsetting potentially higher valuation for that segment on a standalone basis.) 4Q operating profit of $591 million handily beat our and consensus estimates and even company guidance. But, we aren't convinced the company has the same leverage opportunity in non-holiday quarters, and this seems to be captured in its 1Q guidance, which assumes bigger FX headwinds and lower Y/Y profit. We are adjusting our FY15 estimates downward reflecting near-term currency headwinds and still elevated costs."
Eric Sheridan, UBS: Reiterates a Neutral rating, but raises his price target to $355 from $325. "We have been on the sidelines on Amazon given we had low expectation for either a revenue reacceleration or margin relief in the near-term. Between the Q4 results and Q1 company guide, we seem to be correct about revenues but the near-term margin "relief" has given investors a reason to cheer Amazon in the after-hours (+~13%). Going forward, we remain concerned about the heavy investment cycle (China, India, media content, last mile delivery, category expansion) and look toward future quarters to see if this margin relief is a "look thru quarter" (as Amazon has done every few years) or a permanently higher margin run-rate."
Michael Graham, Canaccord Genuity: Reiterates a Hold rating, but raises his price target to $330 from $300. "While Q1 top line guidance is sluggish, management's cautiously positive attitude toward taking a harder look at costs should help stock sentiment in the short term [...] N. America operating margin expanded to 5.4% from 4.7% in Q4/13, while international margin was ~0% due to investing in emerging markets. Management appears to be growing slowly more constructive on margins, building on positive comments from Q3 by saying that the 2015 planning process would be marked by "fixed expense and variable expense productivity." This is encouraging, despite Q1 guidance of another essentially break-even quarter."
The OpenStack Summit industry conference for the freely available, open-source software program of that name is going on this week in Atlanta, and among the attendees has been Mizuho Securities USA's Abhey Lamba, wrote in with his thoughts today on what the event means for Red Hat (RHT), which builds a business distributing and supporting the software for its customers, as well as VMware (VMW), whose business will be affected by OpenStack's virtualization, and for EMC (EMC) and Hewlett-Packard (HPQ).
While a lot of activity is in test beds at the moment, Lamba writes that interest is clearly on the rise, in particular because the revelations of Edward Snowden about NSA spying is prompting some companies to build more private clouds as an alternative to public data centers such as those offered by Amazon.com (AMZN):
We attended OpenStack Summit in Atlanta today. The event clearly highlighted high levels of interest among various vendors and large organizations to support the technology or to benefit from it while deploying applications that require a scalable infrastructure. During the event, vendors of all sizes ranging from small start-ups to large enterprises like IBM, Cisco, Red Hat, Rackspace etc. showcased their offerings and highlighted their differentiation versus others. Although the technology is still in a nascent stage, the interest level is extremely high with current deployments primarily limited to development and test environments. Many vendors believe 2015 could be the year of strong acceleration in bookings/revenues from the technology when customers start using it in production workloads [...] OpenStack offers time to market benefits for vendors looking for scalable computing environments that can be brought online or taken down fairly quickly. Such solutions are highly useful in media related applications on the Internet or big data analytics in addition to supporting development and test environments universally. Additionally, the technology offers an on-premise alternative similar to Amazon's scalable infrastructure, which many large enterprises are exploring as a direct impact of recent data leaks by Snowden. Many vendors pointed to the "Snowden effect" as a driver for a strong interest in OpenStack solutions since many large customers now want to keep most of their critical data in-house versus relying on public clouds. OpenStack offers a reliable alternative to support such deployments. The most recent Icehouse release of the product includes some of the key features like high availability, and charge back capabilities that were required for broader adoption among enterprises. Most users and vendors that we spoke with were excited about the new feature set included in the release and believed that OpenStack adoption should experience a boost from the new version.
Lamba, who rates Red Hat stock a Buy, sees an obvious advantage for the company:
Although there are multiple flavors of OpenStack and deployments are based on competing solutions, Red Hat should gain once customers start pushing the technology into production. The company's leadership position in Linux with it being the largest contributor to OpenStack should help its differentiation. We expect the company to beef up its consulting capabilities to help jumpstart its customers. While we do not expect meaningful contribution from the technology in FY15, combined with the RHEL 7 launch, it should help accelerate bookings growth in FY16 with revenues following.
The free virtual machines that come with OpenStack are a threat to VMware's software over time, perhaps, but Lamba also has a Buy on its shares and sees immediate benefit in helping to roll out the software:
VMware supports OpenStack in a limited capacity by allowing it to work on top of its platform. Most of the service providers are unlikely to use VMware's solution as base but private clouds will find benefit in building solutions on top of VMware due to its dominant position in data centers. However, given material cost savings offered by competing hypervisors and investments in alternatives, we would expect pricing pressure for VMware over time. In the near-term, the company has a potential to gain from its large installed base and greater attach of management & automation solutions within its current customers.
OpenStack is not going to have a meaningful effect on financials for either EMC or HP, but they may be able to help their existing businesses in enterprise equipment from investments they are making:
Some of the vendors at the summit highlighted the work being done by Pivotal as one of the key potential drivers for the adoption of OpenStack. While it remains to be seen how effectively EMC can leverage the investments in Pivotal, it does offer strong upside potential if their adoption grows [...] In addition to offering a hosted OpenStack version, HP is also offering specialized servers targeted at enterprise adoption of the technology. We do expect the company to keep gaining share in the server hardware market especially as IBM is transitioning its business to Lenovo.
Shares of Amazon.com (AMZN) are down $29.52, or 8.8%, at $307.63, after the company yesterday beat Q1 expectations on a 23% rise in sales, but forecast this quarter's revenue lower and said said it might lose as much as $455 million on the operating line.
There is considerable scrutiny today of both Amazon's rate of growth and its rate of spending, and whether the one justifies the latter.
One person throwing in the towel today is Raymond James's Aaron Kessler, who cut his rating to Outperform from Strong Buy, and slashed his price target to $391 from $443, "Given the continued high level of investments as well as slowing unit growth and media sales."
"Amazon reported a mixed 1Q," writes Kessler, "with solid growth in its Electronics & Other Merchandise though slower growth in media sales, slowing unit growth, and lower than expected operating margins and margin guidance."
"While we remain positive longer-term on Amazon, the continued significant investment cycle is not showing any signs of letting up and we believe AWS is likely facing increasing price competition (Amazon CEO noted hundreds of millions of savings to AWS customers over the next several months)."
Kessler slightly raised his revenue number for the year to $91.25 billion, but cut his EPS to $2.96 from $4.12, on an adjusted basis.
Canaccord Genuity's Michael Graham, who has a Hold rating on the shares, and a $365 price target, calls the quarter's results "steady," and the North American sales "solid," but notes the collapse of profit margin on international sales "back below zero."
Writes Graham, "We still see no International margin expansion in sight, due to a long list of investment priorities including fulfillment in places like Spain and China, and 'early market' inefficiencies in everything from product sourcing to warehouse operations."
The company "we will be in "EPS push-out" mode for at least another year."
On the plus side, Credit Suisse's Stephen Ju reiterated an Outperform rating, and noted the company's revenue growth of 23% was "strong,' as was gross profit of 33.2%.
But he observes, too, that consolidated segment operating income of 2.5% was below his own 2.7% expectation:
Amazon reported CSOI margins that were modestly below expectations, slightly declining year over year, primarily as a result of increased investment in both technology and content and fulfillment that rose substantially year over year. We continue to believe that the company's gross margin is suffering as a result of continued reinvestment for growth, and the company is poised to benefit from its investments in the form of margin expansion longer-term. CSOI margin represented 2.5% of net sales vs. 2.7% last year and 100 basis points below our 2.6% projection. Thus, CSOI, in absolute dollars terms, of $502 million was in-line with our $507 million forecast, increasing 14% year over year, and above the mid-point of guidance of $350 million.
The forecast, moreover, for CSOI of $200 million was below his own $308 million expectation. As a consequence, Ju cut his CSOI number for the full year to $2.2 billion from a prior $3.19 billion, and trimmed his target to $439 from $449.
Kerry Rice of Needham & Co., who has a Hold rating on the shares, ticking off the disappointing aspects of growth and expenses:
Despite the revenue upside, there were areas of weakness. Media revenue growth was subdued, decelerating sequentially and y/y in both regions. Only 7M net new accounts were added, the smallest number of adds since 2Q13. Unit growth also decelerated to 23% y/y, down from 25% in 4Q13 and 30% in 1Q13. Even with gross margin improvement and revenue upside, operating income of $146 million fell below expectations as operating expenses were nearly 10% above our estimates with technology and content expenses substantially higher than our estimates. GAAP EPS of $0.23 was slightly better than expectations of $0.21, but the upside was primarily as a result of an equity gain from LivingSocial's sale of its Korean business.
Concludes Rice,
We are cautious about Amazon's ability to sustain its revenue growth given the decelerating growth in Media revenue, paid units, and active accounts [...] we are less confident that the significant investments in new products, content, geographic expansion, and delivery options can produce a material contribution to sustain growth in the near-to-mid-term. Moreover, these investments coupled with capex for facilities and infrastructure have pushed operating expenses to new levels, which more than offset the improving gross margin and limit EPS growth.
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Boing Boing guestblogger, Richard Metzger, makes the case for scooping up audiophile releases of classic rock albums. The comments about "fidelity snobbery" are worth reading, too.
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There's no denying the reaction to the initial marketing materials for "Tron Legacy" have been off the charts. There are also rumors the current cut of the movie plays although there is some concerns about editing around star Garret Hedlund's performance. All good news for fans of Kevin Flynn's long awaited return to the big screen. And yet, considering the film won't be released for another eight months, it's still somewhat startling that Disney is developing a sequel and/or possible backend trilogy for "Legacy."
According to The Hollywood Reporter, the studio has hired "Lost" writers and executive producers Edward Kitsis and Adam Horowitz, who are credited on "Legacy," to begin work on a second and possibly third installment. The trade notes it's unclear if the same characters -- including Jeff Bridges' Flynn -- would return or it would just be a new adventure set in the "Tron" world. All the actors or director Joseph Kosinski have options to return, but if the film is a blockbuster they will be in a position to negotiate better deals.
This isn't uncharted territory. Paramount Pictures optioned J.J. Abrams, producer Damien Lindeloff and original screenwriters Alex Kurtzman and Robert Orci to develop a sequel to last year's "Star Trek," but that occurred only weeks before the film debuted. The question is whether Disney has done extensive polling to determine early interest for "Legacy" or is just that optimistic with the cut of the film they've seen so far. And, unlike other studios, the newly hired head of production, Sean Bailey, would know how good the movie is at this stage, because he's the picture's producer.
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