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Amazon (amzn) revamped its European tax practices in 2015 so that it can book sales and pay taxes in Britain, Germany, Spain, and Italy instead of channeling all sales through Luxembourg where it is headquartered, a move which may raise its tax bill.

It's being sold by retailer WorldWide Distributors and fulfilled by Amazon (AMZN).

«It's been going gangbusters all year long,» said Crabill by phone, noting that Mohu recently won shelf - space at Best Buy, and is expanding its presence at Wal - Mart (WMT) and on Amazon (AMZN)

The new data centers underscores how cloud computing giants like Amazon (amzn), Microsoft, Google (goog), and IBM (ibm) are spending billions of dollars building out their infrastructure across the world so they can sell their technologies to non-U.S. customers.

It's not quite a pay - to - play operation as it only charges the biggest advertisers, such as Google (goog) and Amazon (amzn), for whitelisting their «acceptable» ads.

At the moment, people asking Google where they can buy a certain product are very likely to be steered towards Amazon (amzn), where they will make their purchase.

MS says longer term impact of $ AMZN entering pharmacy could be direct relationships w branded pharma = rebates passing back to consumers pic.twitter.com/QnO2dvFa 7s

Larry Puglia, whose T. Rowe Price Blue Chip Growth Fund has trounced the S&P 500 with annualized returns of 18.5 % over the past five years (and 37 % in 2017 alone), says that some of the same companies he avoided around the turn of the millennium are now among the biggest holdings in his portfolio, including Amazon (amzn), Alphabet (googl), and Microsoft (msft).

People are buying these basic everyday items on Amazon.com (amzn), at Walmart (wmt) and even at dollar stores more now, and with drive - through available at countless stores, many don't even need to set foot in a store anymore.

Current rules do not let people fly drones beyond the line of sight of human operators and over people's heads in public places, which limits companies like Amazon (amzn) and Google (goog) from using drones to deliver goods, among other business uses, beyond testing.

The world's largest retailer, for years slow to respond to Amazon.com (amzn) in the digital wars, has been on a tear in recent quarters, helped by the $ 3 billion acquisition of jet.com and overhaul of its marketplace last year, and by better integration of its stores with its digital business.

Retailers seem to be pulling out of their years - long malaise, helped by a strong economy and their own efforts to finally adapt to the Amazon.com (amzn) world.

The executive told analysts on a conference call on Friday to discuss the sports retailer's abysmal second quarter results that he wasn't concerned about companies like Adidas and Nike (nke) selling on Amazon.com (amzn), saying that quality in - store experience remained a crucial protection against the massive online retailer.

«Our problem is that we want to emulate large e-commerce sites like Zappos and Amazon (NASDAQ: AMZN), but we also want to be a brand,» he says.

Apple's Core ML toolkit could already be used to connect with competing cloud - based machine learning services from Google (goog), Amazon (amzn), and Microsoft (msft).

David Streitfield writes in The New York Times about Amazon's (amzn) enormous appetite for risk.

Amazon (amzn) has been a target due to founder Jeff Bezos» ownership of The Washington Post.

The latest AMZN - JPM - BRK move is an acknowledgment that the buck stops there, in the corporate accounting department, at least for the foreseeable future.

On the Fortune 500 side, it's powerhouse brands like Microsoft (MSFT) and Amazon (AMZN) vs. a slew of large but lesser - known companies like CH2M Hill and Newmont Mining (NEM).

The test reflects the increasing adoption of technology by big retailers as they try to keep up with online retail giant Amazon (amzn), which uses robots in some of its warehouses in addition to other cutting - edge technology.

This year's event, convened by scholars Luigi Zingales and Guy Rolnik, focused on the threat of concentration of Big Tech, otherwise known as the Big Five: Facebook, Amazon (amzn), Apple (aapl), Netflix (nflx), and Google (googl).

Netflix, Amazon (amzn), Google and other major suppliers of online video content could get squeezed.

Microsoft (msft) has been pushing its Skype for Business to corporate customers amid increasing competition from companies like Amazon (amzn) and Google (goog).

What struck many about Salesforce's first quarter call in May was how often Benioff talked up Amazon (amzn), its chief executive officer Jeff Bezos, and Amazon Web Services.

Dell Technologies, now officially a company with an estimated $ 74 billion in annual revenue, wants to be a presence in cloud but will not take on market leader Amazon (amzn) directly in the public cloud game.

Additionally, many businesses are foregoing buying data center hardware entirely as they increasingly rent their computing resources on demand from big tech companies like Amazon (amzn) and Microsoft (msft).

Whereas hedge funds once might have sent an analyst to count cars in retailers» parking lots to inform their earnings models, they're now deploying web - crawling bots to vacuum info from online job - listing sites, Amazon (AMZN) reviews, Wikipedia, Zillow (Z) home - value records, FDA patient complaints, and the remotest reaches of the Internet.

And Bezos Expeditions, the investment fund of Amazon (AMZN) CEO Jeff Bezos, is backing a Vancouver company called General Fusion, which so far has raised $ 94 million.

This is a shared cultural event at a time when the notion of everyone watching the same program on the same network at the same time is a distant memory, totally disconnected from our new reality of Netflix (nflx), Hulu, Amazon Video (amzn), HBO Go or Apple TV (aapl) delivering our favorite shows, which increasingly aren't even produced by the major networks.

Last Friday's enormous cyber attack that brought down popular websites and online services like Amazon (amzn) and Netflix (nflx) was likely caused by a non-state actor, otherwise known as hackers without ties to any specific state or government.

Store pick up of online orders is a key tool in Walmart's efforts to fight back at Amazon.com (amzn).

Netflix (nflx) was up 51 %, Apple (aapl) 47 %, and Amazon (amzn) 57 % year - to - date, according to CNBC.

AMZN shares have risen by nearly 39 percent over the last year while TSLA has climbed by about 43 percent and XOM has dropped more than 9 percent.

Amazon (AMZN) also already banned the plug - in for advertisements on its website.

• Amazon's (Nasdaq: AMZN) cloud computing arm acquired Thinkbox Software, a developer of production tools in the visual media industries.

Facebook is now the sixth most valuable company in the S&P 500 index, bigger than Wells Fargo (WFC), Johnson and Johnson (JNJ), and Amazon (AMZN), in addition to GE.

Still, Macy's continues to struggle with a shopper exodus to the likes of Amazon.com (amzn), T.J. Maxx and Ulta Beauty (ulta) among many others.

The firms join existing investors Advance Publications, Rethink Impact, Allen & Co, as well as Jeff Bezos, CEO of Amazon (amzn).

Earlier this year, Walmart acquired jet.com for $ 3 billion and has added millions of items to its online assortment as it looks to narrow the enormous gap with Amazon.com (amzn), whose U.S. sales are six times greater than Walmart.com's.

• Amazon (Nasdaq: AMZN) agreed to buy Souq.com, a Dubai - based online retailer, beating out a last - minute $ 800 million acquisition offer from Emaar Malls.

By big three, he means Amazon (AMZN), Microsoft (MSFT) and Google (GOOG), the biggest (by far) of the public cloud infrastructure providers.

This company made waves with price cuts that took on cloud market leader Amazon (AMZN) Web Services last year.

Amazon (amzn) has a good record with customers, who are confident the retailer will give them the lowest price.

Amazon (AMZN) CEO Jeff Bezos and Berkshire Hathaway (BRKA) CEO Warren Buffett, Facebook (FB) COO Sheryl Sandberg, Google (GOOG) CFO Patrick Pichette, and others who dominated the voting last year are now in the Hall of Fame to make way for some fresh faces.

The social networking giant unveiled a research project on Monday that is aimed at jump starting the development of more powerful voice - recognition software used in things like Apple's (aapl) Siri, Amazon's (amzn) Alexa, and Google's (goog) Assistant.

Today, thanks to ebooks and Amazon (amzn), self - publishing is a global phenomenon — an independent route intentionally chosen by more and more authors — that has spawned not only mega-bestsellers like Fifty Shades of Grey, but also hits in other realms, such as the movie version of The Martian.

While Bezos and the newspaper's editors have previously denied that the Amazon CEO controls the Post's news coverage or feeds it article ideas, he doesn't even give the journalists feedback on their work — even when it has been critical of Amazon (amzn).

Meanwhile, the big publishing houses continued their march towards consolidation — most recently, Random House and Penguin announced a merger in October, and rumors have circulated over a potential HarperCollins - Simon & Schuster pairing — all in an effort to give Amazon (amzn) a run for its money.

It also promises an in - home device with a speaker and a screen to compete with Amazon's (amzn) family of devices built around its Alexa personal assistant as well as the Home gadget from Google (googl), where Rubin once worked.

And given their reliance on Amazon (AMZN), these big institutions have something else in common: In a sense, they all work with Andy Jassy.