Amazon’s spending on quick delivery is squeezing its profits
Spending on next-day Prime delivery is ‘a necessary strategy to compete with brick-and-mortar’s speed advantage to the customer,’ analyst says.
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FTC fines Facebook $5B, pins privacy onus on Zuckerberg
Federal regulators have fined Facebook $5 billion for privacy violations and are instituting new oversight and restrictions on its business
Icelandic budget airline WOW Air ceases operations
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$1,000,000,000,000: Amazon becomes second U.S. firm to reach trillion-dollar market cap
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U.S. pot firm looking north to raise capital
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Alphabet records $3.2B quarterly profit, despite massive EU fine
Google parent Alphabet on Monday reported second-quarter earnings that pleased Wall Street, even as it booked a $5.1 billion charge to cover a fine levied
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