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Cloud infrastructure business seen as three-horse race

The battle to control the infrastructure for cloud computing is coming down to market leader Amazon.com (AMZN) and competitors Google (GOOG) and Microsoft (MSFT) a report by Bernstein Research says. Amazon is top dog in the infrastructure-as-a-service (IaaS) market, with estimated 2013 revenue of more than $3 billion from its Amazon Web Services (AWS) business, Bernstein analyst Carlos Kirjner said in a report published Friday. AWS revenue jumped 85% in 2013, he said. In contrast to Amazon’s $3 abillion, Google’s competing Google Compute Engine likely generated $100 million or less in 2013, said Kirjner. And Microsoft probably took in a few hundred million dollars in 2013 IaaS revenue as part of its Azure business, he added. IaaS lets companies and government agencies access computing resources over the Internet on a pay-as-you-go basis. “We believe the number of players who can compete at scale with AWS (i.e., beyond specialized niches) can…

‘Flappy Bird’ refuses to die, still popular teen game

The top mobile video game among U.S. teens may surprise you. It’s “Flappy Bird,” that notoriously difficult-to-play smartphone game that its creator pulled off the market in February. Piper Jaffray surveyed 7,500 teens from Feb. 24 to April 1 on a host of topics, including video games. Asked to name their favorite mobile game, 16% said “Flappy Bird,” which was published by .GEARS (dotGears) Studios, a small, independent game developer in Vietnam. The creator of “Flappy Bird,” Dong Nguyen, removed the game from the Apple (AAPL) and Google (GOOG) app stores on Feb. 9 after facing criticism about its level of difficulty and alleged plagiarism in graphics and game mechanics. Many have called the game addicting. Players tap the screen to keep a small bird aloft and flying through obstacles. The game, released last May, appeared to borrow from the look of old Nintendo (NTDOY) games like “Super Mario Bros.”…

EMC CEO Joe Tucci Makes His Case For Hybrid Cloud Era

EMC and its spinoff, VMware, along with their progeny called Pivotal, make a formidable trio as IT firms aim to survive and thrive in the cloud computing era. The Internet cloud proffers a new kind of competition. Amazon (AMZN), Microsoft (MSFT) and Google (GOOG) have been attracting more companies to infrastructure-as-a-service, or IaaS, where customers rent servers and storage resources as needed. EMC (EMC), the No. 1 data storage company, is