My friend Melissa Pierce is running the Pitch Refinery, a two-day live event and a year-round online peer-review network, kicking off in Chicago on September 22nd and 23rd.

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But there is one area where the tech giant is currently kicking butt and taking names, and that is online gaming.

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The market leaders are GoGrid, Rackspace and Amazon Web Services, the computing arm of the online retailer, which made headlines for kicking WikiLeaks off its servers.

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C. are kicking around a bunch of ideas about how to deal with online privacy.

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