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Tech megacaps plan to spend more than $300 billion in 2025 as AI race intensifies
Megacap technology companies funneled billions of dollars into artificial intelligence last year to try and keep up with unfettered demand. The hype isn’t dying down in 2025. Meta, Amazon, Alphabet and Microsoft intend to spend as much as $320 billion combined on AI technologies and datacenter buildouts in 2025, based on comments from their CEOs […]
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Stuck stock market is worried about economic growth as Trump’s tariffs dominate headlines
The stock market is rather calm but can’t seem to relax. In a noisy and fast-shifting news environment, stocks were quietly flattish last week from point to point, even after Friday’s almost 1% drop, which extends a sideways three-month range during which the S & P 500 has traded no more than 3% above or […]
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Amazon scrubs DEI mention from its annual report
A person walks by The Spheres at the Amazon.com Inc. headquarters in Seattle, Washington, on Nov. 14, 2022. David Ryder | Getty Images News | Getty Images Amazon has removed any references to diversity and inclusion from its most recent annual report. The company filed its report for 2024 on Friday following the release of […]
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As the war on DEI intensifies, some companies hold the line while others work behind the scenes
President Donald Trump speaks during a press conference at the White House in Washington, D.C., Jan. 30, 2025. Xinhua News Agency | Xinhua News Agency | Getty Images There’s a delicate balance playing out at corporations across America. As the Trump administration targets diversity, equity and inclusion initiatives, many prominent companies have publicly scaled back […]
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Amazon plans to spend $100 billion this year to capture ‘once in a lifetime opportunity’ in AI
Amazon CEO Andy Jassy speaks during a keynote address at AWS re:Invent 2024, a conference hosted by Amazon Web Services, at The Venetian Las Vegas on December 3, 2024 in Las Vegas, Nevada. Noah Berger | Getty Images Entertainment | Getty Images Amazon said Thursday it plans to boost its capital expenditures to $100 billion […]
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Alphabet’s Verily to sell Granular insurance business to Elevance Health
Verily headquarters in San Bruno, California. Courtesy: Verily Verily is selling its stop-loss insurance subsidiary, Granular Insurance Company, to the insurance provider Elevance Health, the Alphabet health tech company confirmed to CNBC on Thursday. Verily is one of Google’s sister companies and operates within Alphabet’s “Other Bets” category. The Granular sale is the latest in […]
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Amazon hit by strengthening dollar, underscoring risks in tech to overseas reliance
CEO of Meta and Facebook Mark Zuckerberg, Lauren Sanchez, Amazon founder Jeff Bezos, Google CEO Sundar Pichai and Tesla and SpaceX CEO Elon Musk attend the inauguration ceremony before Donald Trump is sworn in as the 47th US President in the US Capitol Rotunda in Washington, DC, on Jan. 20, 2025. Saul Loeb | Via […]
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How one ETF provider is trying to help investors cut exposure to Magnificent 7 stocks
ETF Edge How one ETF provider is trying to help investors cut exposure to Magnificent 7 stocks Published Thu, Feb 6 20257:00 PM EST Krysta Escobar WATCH LIVE Source
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Amazon fourth-quarter cloud revenue falls just shy of Wall Street estimates
Amazon Web Services (AWS) CEO Matt Garman delivers a keynote address during the AWS re:Invent conference in Las Vegas on Dec. 3, 2024. Noah Berger | Getty Images Entertainment | Getty Images Amazon said Thursday that revenue growth from its cloud-computing business slowed slightly to just under 19% year over year in the fourth quarter, […]
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Amazon’s advertising business grew 18% in the fourth quarter
An Amazon warehouse and distribution centre in an industrial park in Montreal, Quebec, Canada, on Thursday, Sept. 1, 2022. Graham Hughes | Bloomberg | Getty Images Amazon’s online advertising business logged $17.29 billion in the fourth quarter, up 18% from a year ago. Analysts polled by StreetAccount were expecting Amazon to report ad revenue of […]
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