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Amazon, Microsoft, and Alphabet are doubling down on AI for the cloud — and it seems to be paying off

Wed, 05/01/2024 - 18:09

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AWS, Amazon Web Services — Amazon, Microsoft, and Alphabet reported earnings that exceeded Wall Street expectations. AI's impact on their cloud divisions may be fueling that growth.
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AI, Tech, amazon, Microsoft, alphabet, google, AI

Amazon, Starbucks show how jittery US customers are about the economy

Tue, 04/30/2024 - 23:46

Tech Insider : Economy

Starbucks barista serving a customer. — Starbucks' CEO said infrequent customers are becoming more cautious spenders.
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Retail, insider-news, amazon, Starbucks, Inflation, economy

Amazon earnings results: AMZN stock rallies after hours from AI-fueled AWS growth, Q1 sales and profit beats

Tue, 04/30/2024 - 18:44

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An Amazon worker moves boxes on Amazon Prime Day on July 11, 2023 in the East Village of New York City. Amazon holds the annual two-day event, where it offers shopping deals to Prime customers, in the middle of the summer. Amazon Prime Day has brought an estimated 10 billion dollars to the company in each of the last 3 years, as customers look to take advantage of discounts and quick shipping.

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Amazon's Prime orders are getting delivered faster and faster

Tue, 04/30/2024 - 18:13

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Retail, amazon, amazon-prime, delivery-drivers, amazon-prime-subscription

Return-to-Office Mandates Could Get in the Way of Some Supposedly Important Corporate Goals

Tue, 04/30/2024 - 10:50

Gizmodo : Environment

When office workers stopped working in offices in 2020, trading their cubicles for living room couches during Covid-19 lockdowns, many began questioning those hours they had spent commuting to work. All those rushed mornings stuck in traffic could have been spent getting things done? Life was often lonely for those…