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Amazon invested over £15 billion ($20 billion) in Britain in ‌2025, keeping the e-commerce giant ‌on track to deliver its planned £40 billion investment ​in the three years to the end of 2027, it said on Wednesday. Investments in 2025 included the launch of new ‌operational sites, expanded ⁠studio production facilities and office space, as well as the ⁠start of a drone deliveries trial. Updating on its annual UK economic impact and ​tax disclosure, ​Amazon also ​said: • In 2025, the ‌total revenues of its activities in the UK were more than £30 billion.

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By Foo Yun Chee BRUSSELS, May 27 (Reuters) - European leaders are divided on how far to go in curbing Big Tech as they weigh momentous decisions over giving EU firms preferential access to mobile

European leaders are divided on how far to go in curbing Big Tech as they weigh momentous decisions over giving EU firms preferential access to mobile satellite spectrum and limiting large multinationals' access to EU cloud tenders. On Tuesday, ‌Reuters reported Brussels was likely to leave an opening for Elon Musk's Starlink and Amazon's low-earth-orbit satellite business Leo to acquire lucrative European ‌mobile satellite spectrum next year as a result of a compromise that will reserve the bulk of frequencies for European firms. A separate decision on EU cloud tenders set for June 3 is expected to ​temper the influence of U.S. firms such as Amazon, Alphabet's Google and Microsoft, which dominate the global cloud market with a combined 63% share.

Amazon cited AI efficiency when it eliminated 16,000 corporate roles. Microsoft cited AI when it cut more than 15,000 positions. Across Big Tech, the explanation for layoffs has become almost predictable: we are doing more with less, and AI is why. Jensen Huang has a problem with that story. And he ...

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The Magnificent Seven's first-quarter earnings are in the books, and the seven companies registered their best profit growth in nearly five years. All remain pillars of the S&P 500 index. Collectively, Mag 7 earnings jumped 63.2% year over year, according to a report from FactSet.

There is a particular comfort in the idea that the boss and the billionaire agree on the future. It saves you the trouble of picking a side. It saves you the harder trouble of figuring out which one is selling you something. For the past week, American workers got the optimistic version of that ...

UBS raised its target on Micron to a Street-high $1,625 from $535, arguing AI has structurally changed the memory market

Dropbox said on Tuesday that CEO and co-founder Andrew Houston will step down after a ‌transition period, promoting insider Ashraf Alkarmi to co-CEO ‌ahead of his succession as the sole chief executive. The file hosting service ​provider's shares fell more than 1% in early trading. They have fallen over 3% this year.

During a recent episode of The Pomp Podcast featuring guest Jordi Visser, host Anthony Pompliano highlighted a striking proposal from Amazon (NASDAQ:AMZN) founder Jeff Bezos. Bezos believes the bottom 50% of Americans should pay no federal taxes. According to the discussion, the bottom half of earners currently contribute only 3% of the federal budget, which lends credence ... Jeff Bezos Says Bottom 50% of Americans Should Pay No Taxes. The Real Culprit Is Federal Spending

The European commission ‌is set to ‌allocate two thirds of ​lucrative mobile satellite spectrum to European companies, with the rest ‌available ⁠for non-European rivals such as Elon ⁠Musk's Starlink and Amazon's low-earth-orbit ​satellite business ​Leo, ​people with direct ‌knowledge of the matter said on Tuesday. The EU executive will next year allocate ‌mobile satellite ​spectrum currently ​used ​by American ‌companies Viasat and EchoStar ​and ​which is due to expire in ​May ‌2027.

Logistics startup Stord said on Tuesday it raised nearly $250 million in a late-stage funding round at ‌a $3 billion valuation, and launched Stord Labs to advance ‌physical intelligence. The funding highlights investor confidence in platforms that provide independent brands with ​the technological infrastructure needed to challenge the dominance of e-commerce giants such as Amazon. Here are some details: • Stord Labs will serve as a research base for the company to test agentic AI, robotics and ‌automation against live fulfillment ⁠data to improve warehouse operations.

Investing.com -- Marvell Technology Inc. (NASDAQ:MRVL) shares rose 5.8% Tuesday morning following bullish analyst comments and a Street-high price target ahead of the company’s earnings report scheduled for Wednesday.

Marvell (MRVL) stock closed the May 22 trading session at $196.33. The stock has rallied 131% year to date, by Sunday morning, May 24. Meanwhile, the SPDR S&P 500 index (SPY) is up about 9% in the same period. The company has outpaced the S&P 500, thanks to its participation in the broader ...

Amazon is the biggest online retailer in the world, and its market capitalization of $2.9 trillion makes it the fifth-largest company. Its spectacular stock price gain since its IPO has made founder Jeff Bezos a billionaire many times over and minted millionaires among early investors who held onto ...

NVDA stock fell despite stellar fiscal Q1 2027 earnings. Nvidia still looks a buy given continued growth in the AI chip market.

The ERShares Private-Public Crossover ETF (NYSEARCA:XOVR) sits at an awkward crossroad heading into summer 2026. Shares trade near $19.08, down 5% year-to-date even as the public-side AI mega-caps it holds have ripped higher. That disconnect matters because XOVR is the rare ETF that pairs late-stage private growth (SpaceX is the publicly known anchor) with public ... XOVR ETF: Watch Hyperscaler AI Capex Before Summer 2026 Earnings Season

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Paul Tudor Jones doesn’t appear to be locked into one stock. That may be the real story. The billionaire investor’s Tudor Investment Corp. reported a massive first-quarter options book that includes big stakes connected to Nvidia (NVDA), Tesla (TSLA), Microsoft (MSFT), Amazon (AMZN), Meta Platforms ...

Most people think of Airbnb the same way they thought of Amazon in 1999 — a useful but narrowly defined platform. Amazon sold books. Airbnb rents homes. Both descriptions were accurate. Both turned out to be wildly incomplete. Brian Chesky wants you to rethink what Airbnb is becoming. The CEO sat ...

The well-known venture capitalist who bet on Google says that the AI revolution is, if anything, underhyped.

The economic gap between the U.S. and the U.K. has been widening for more than a decade. As a result, a new study has found that the U.K.'s GDP per capita is now lower than every single U.S. state.

Fervo Energy a geothermal startup that made its public debut this month, is closer than many to fulfilling that promise. Its initial public offering was a success: Fervo’s shares are up 42% from its IPO price, with a market cap of $12.4 billion. Oklo, backed by OpenAI’s Sam Altman, and Amazon.com -backed X-Energy are each valued at around $11.5 billion.

Amazon is racing Indian startups to deliver groceries to customers in minutes. The secret sauce is micro-warehouses.

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If it seems like everything is expensive these days, it might not be just because of inflation. When tariffs were raised, those costs were either passed onto consumers or companies. And now that some of the tariffs from the past year have been deemed unconstituitional, companies want their money ...

Trillion dollar companies are typically profitable. SpaceX lost about $5 billion in 2025, according to its IPO registration statement.

The stock market is right at highs with several leaders near buy points. Marvell, Dell and Costco earnings are on tap, along with the Fed's inflation gauge.