Google's Diane Greene announced a major win over Amazon: Target is using Google's cloud (GOOG, GOOGL)

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• Google Cloud Platform CEO Diane Greene has officially announced that Target is a customer.
• This is the kind of large company that Google's cloud needs to sign to show that it's a player.
• It's also a kick in the shins from Google at the cloud computing leader, Amazon Web Services.

Google Cloud chief, Diane Greene announced Monday at Google's Next 2018 conference that Target, one of the country's largest retailers, is using Google Cloud Platform.

Greene hinted that this relationship wasn't new, that Google's cloud was helping Target back during last year's Christmas season.See the rest of the story at Business Insider

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