Internet/e-commerce

Amazon's annual tax bill fell 87% YoY to $1.2B in 2025, as profits grew 45% to ~$90B, mostly due to GOP's depreciation breaks in the One Big Beautiful Bill (www.politico.com)
2026-2-7 Amazon Tax Republican

Amazon, Google, and Microsoft reported a collective $1.1T backlog of cloud computing revenue in their latest quarterly earnings, including Microsoft's $625B (sherwood.news)
2026-2-7 Google Amazon Microsoft

Spotify changes Developer Mode to require a Premium subscription and reduces the number of test users per app from 25 to 5, to curb AI-aided or automated usage (techcrunch.com)
2026-2-7 AI Spotify

SIA: chip sales hit $791.7B in 2025, up 25.6% YoY, with Nvidia, AMD, and Intel accounting for $301.9B, up 40%; SIA expects sales to reach $1T in 2026 (www.reuters.com)
2026-2-7 Intel Nvidia AMD

Alphabet, Amazon, Meta, and Microsoft forecast capital expenditures that reach a combined ~$650B in 2026, a 60% YoY increase driven by data center construction (www.bloomberg.com)
2026-2-6 Amazon Microsoft Alphabet

Sources: Intel and AMD have notified Chinese customers of supply shortages for server CPUs, with Intel warning of delivery lead times of up to six months (www.reuters.com)
2026-2-6 China Intel AMD

Google Confirms AirDrop Sharing is Coming To Android Phones Beyond Pixels (it.slashdot.org)
2026-2-6 Android Google

A federal jury in Phoenix ordered Uber to pay $8.5M to a passenger who said a driver sexually assaulted her in 2023, the first case where Uber was found liable (www.nytimes.com)
2026-2-6 Uber

The European Commission Is Testing an Open Source Alternative To Microsoft Teams (slashdot.org)
2026-2-6 Europe Microsoft Open Source

Court Rules That Ripping YouTube Clips Can Violate the DMCA (news.slashdot.org)
2026-2-6 YouTube

Amazon reports Q4 ad revenue up 23% YoY to $21.32B, slightly above expectations, and subscription services revenue up 14% to $13.12B (variety.com)
2026-2-6 Amazon 4Q

Reddit reports Q4 revenue up 70% YoY to $726M, vs. $665M est., DAUq up 19% to 121.4M, above est., forecasts Q1 revenue above est., announces a $1B share buyback (www.cnbc.com)
2026-2-6 4Q Reddit

Amazon reports Q4 AWS revenue up 24% YoY to $35.6B, vs. $34.9B est., AWS operating income up 17% YoY to $12.5B, and boosts capex in 2026 to $200B (www.cnbc.com)
2026-2-6 Amazon 4Q

Amazon.com Announces Fourth Quarter Results (www.businesswire.com)
2026-2-6 Amazon

Permalink to Snowflake and OpenAI's partnership, new insights in Google Play Console, and more — Daily News Digest (sdtimes.com)
2026-2-6 Google

Microsoft to shut down Exchange Online EWS in April 2027 (www.bleepingcomputer.com)
2026-2-6 Microsoft

Snowboarder Maddie Mastro and other athletes are using a new AI tool powered by Google DeepMind's computer vision models to prepare for the 2026 Winter Olympics (www.wsj.com)
2026-2-6 Google AI

Amazon Plans To Use AI To Speed Up TV and Film Production (entertainment.slashdot.org)
2026-2-6 Amazon AI

Spotify Plans To Sell Physical Books (news.slashdot.org)
2026-2-6 Spotify

Spotify partners with Bookshop.org to let Premium users in the US and UK buy hardcover and paperback books via its app in spring; Bookshop.org fulfills orders (www.wsj.com)
2026-2-5 Spotify

The UK says Microsoft, the UK government, academics, and experts plan to build a system to spot deepfakes online as part of an detection evaluation framework (www.reuters.com)
2026-2-5 Microsoft

Germany's Federal Cartel Office rules Amazon must stop enforcing price controls for retailers on its German marketplace and seizes €59M; Amazon can appeal (www.bloomberg.com)
2026-2-5 Germany Amazon

Snowboarder Maddie Mastro and other athletes are using a new AI tool powered by Google DeepMind's computer-vision models to prepare for the 2026 Winter Olympics (www.wsj.com)
2026-2-5 Google AI

Microsoft Adds Sysmon To Windows (tech.slashdot.org)
2026-2-5 Microsoft

Google says the Gemini app has 750M+ MAUs, up from 650M last quarter, and its first-party models process 10B+ tokens per minute via direct API use by customers (techcrunch.com)
2026-2-5 Google

Andy Jassy taps Dharmesh Mehta, Amazon VP of worldwide selling partner services, as technical advisor, a “shadow” role often leading to greater responsibilities (www.cnbc.com)
2026-2-5 Amazon

Amazon MGM Studio plans to develop new AI tools via its “AI Studio” to speed TV and film production and cut costs, in collaboration with AWS and LLM providers (www.reuters.com)
2026-2-5 Amazon AI

Getting Started With Google Gemini CLI (realpython.com)
2026-2-5 Google

Alphabet reports YouTube's Q4 ad revenue rose 9% YoY to $11.38B, vs. $11.84B est., and YouTube's annual revenue surpassed $60B across ads and subscriptions (variety.com)
2026-2-5 YouTube 4Q Alphabet

Google teases the Pixel 10a in a new video, revealing a completely flat rear camera, and says pre-orders begin on February 18 (9to5google.com)
2026-2-5 Google

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