Factbox: The challenges facing Amazon’s new CEO, Andy Jassy
Amazon.com Inc (AMZN.O) on Monday got a new chief executive: Andy Jassy, the mastermind behind its lucrative cloud computing division, who succeeds company founder Jeff Bezos.
Big Tech’s push into India’s financial sector raises concerns, says central bank
Plans by Big Tech to foray further into India’s financial sector pose risks for traditional banks as the tech firms have the potential to become dominant players in financial services, the central bank said.
U.S., European suppliers scramble to secure Christmas goods as cargo delays worsen
Suppliers to Walmart (WMT.N), Target (TGT.N), Amazon.com (AMZN.O) and other major retailers told Reuters they are placing holiday orders for Chinese-made merchandise weeks earlier this year, as a global shipping backlog threatens to leave many gift buyers empty-handed this Christmas shopping season.
Musk says may need $30 bln to keep Starlink in orbit
Billionaire entrepreneur Elon Musk said on Tuesday that his Starlink satellite internet venture was growing quickly as he forecast total investment costs in the business at between $20 billion and $30 billion.
Bank stocks set Dow for higher open ahead of consumer confidence data
The blue-chip Dow index was set to open higher on Tuesday, as shares of big U.S. banks rose, while investors looked to consumer confidence data against the backdrop of rising inflation and a spike in COVID-19 cases across Asia.
Musk set to tout Starlink progress as cost, demand hurdles linger
Don Joyce, a Nokia director working from home at a remote lake cottage in Canada, recently abandoned his painfully slow phone-line internet in favor of satellite broadband service Starlink, offered by Elon Musk’s SpaceX.
Exclusive: White House order pushes antitrust enforcement throughout U.S. economy
The White House is working on an antitrust executive order that aims to push government agencies to consider how their decisions will impact competition in an industry, according to two sources familiar with the matter.
With cloud and AI, IBM broadens 5G deals with Verizon and Telefonica
IBM (IBM.N) will offer telecom operators Verizon (VZ.N) and Telefonica (TEF.MC) new services ranging from running 5G over a cloud platform to using artificial intelligence, the U.S. technology company said on Monday.
Afterpay’s move to open to major U.S. merchants will boost margins, analysts say
Afterpay’s (APT.AX) move to expand its buy now, pay later service to major U.S. merchants it has not directly partnered with will boost sales and margins, analysts said on Thursday, as the Australian company’s shares rose nearly 8%.
Nasdaq hits record high as factory activity scales new peak
The Nasdaq hit an all-time high on Wednesday, helped by a boost from Tesla’s shares, with investors cheering data showing U.S. factory activity climbed to a record peak in June.
