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Amazon.com Inc (NASDAQ: AMZN ) scooped at least $4.7 billion in tax breaks globally during the past ten years as per watchdog group and a global labor federation, the Vice reports . The tax breaks pertained to its warehouses, data centers, offices, call centers, and film production projects. The vast majority of these tax breaks worth $4.1 billion Full story available on Benzinga.com

An affiliate of e-commerce major Amazon India has signed on 2.5 million sq ft of warehouse space in the last four months across Mumbai, Hyderabad, and Bengaluru to ramp up operations in the country.The US-based e-commerce firm is also in talks with Blackstone Group''s logistics development platform, Horizon Industrial Parks, to lease half a million sq ft of warehouse space in Delhi and Alipore."Amazon is looking to set up a built-to-suit facility. The deal is expected to take at least two months. The proposed in-city warehouse will come up on a part of the 36 acres land bought by Blackstone in Delhi from TARC in a deal valued at Rs 295 crore," said two people aware of the matter.For Amazon, this is the fourth such large leasing deal that the US-based firm is in the process of finalising.Since September last year, some of the large deals closed by the company include 6 lakh sq ft of warehouse space at India’s biggest logistics cluster, Bhiwandi in Mumbai Metropolitan Region, and another one million sq ft of warehouse space at the Shamshabad locality in South Hyderabad from ESR.This was followed by an additional one million sft of warehouse facility at Devanahalli Industrial and Logistics Park, Bengaluru, from Logos."The firm has been very aggressive in the past four months and is looking to ramp up operations further.

New satellites could interfere with space missions NASA expressed concern regarding SpaceXs plan to deploy more satellites for its Starlink Gen2 project, in a letter submitted on Monday to the Federal Communications Commission (FCC). The space agency listed the potential risks the Starlink satellites could pose for space launches and observations, including collisions with other spacecraft, failure of maneuvering capability, interference with telescopes, and launch delays. NASA has concerns with the potential for a significant increase in the frequency of conjunction events and possible impacts to Nasas science and human spaceflight missions, the agency stated. NASA noted that there are 25,000 objects currently being tracked in the Earths orbit, including 6,100 objects at an altitude below 600km. The Starlink expansion would more than double the number of tracked objects in orbit and increase the number of objects below 600 km over five-fold, according to the agency. Other companies, such as Amazon and a broadcast company Dish Network, have separately expressed fears regarding the SpaceX satellite networks expansion.

AFRM stock plunged after the company reported a bigger net loss and investors digested new guidance that includes Amazon.com transactions.

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The Nasdaq 100 slumped 1.7% in afternoon trading Thursday, with only 17 of its components gaining ground, after the technology-friendly index ran up 3.3% over the past two days. The index''s biggest gainer was Datadog Inc. stock , which shot up 14.3% over the monitoring and security software platform company reported before the open better-than-expected fourth-quarter results and provided an upbeat first-quarter sales outlook. Shares of Seagen Inc. tumbled 13.8% to pace the losers after the biotechnology company reported late Wednesday a wider-than-expected loss and provided a downbeat revenue outlook. Also acting as a big drag on the Nasdaq 100 was weakness in all four of the index''s trillion-dollar-plus market capitalization companies, as shares of Apple Inc. shed 1.7%, Microsoft Corp. dropped 2.6%, Alphabet Inc. slumped 1.5% and Amazon.com Inc. fell 1.1%. Market Pulse Stories are Rapid-fire, short news bursts on stocks and markets as they move. Visit MarketWatch.com for more information on this news.

(Bloomberg) -- A Seattle suburb that has attracted companies like Amazon.com Inc. and Facebook has seen home prices soar past Manhattan’s.

While investors focus on the recent rebound in big tech stocks like Apple Inc. and Amazon.com Inc., shares of smaller technology companies remain in a deep hole.

Following the widespread impact of Covid-19, global economies are gearing up for a short-term future set to the backdrop of accelerated inflation. The longer-term consequences of these record-breaking inflation increases are unknown, but what appears certain is that we’re set for a difficult start to 2022 as living costs continue to rise. As labor shortages and supply chain squeezes continue to disrupt the pricing of goods and services, we’re likely to see the prolonged elevation to inflation - ranging well into the mid-single digits. (Image: Bloomberg Quint ) As Bloomberg Quint data shows, inflation is currently rife across G20 economies. With no end in sight for the growing cost of living, a greater emphasis has been placed on hedges against inflation. Traditionally, gold, commodities, and growth stocks have been regarded as excellent hedges against inflation among financial experts, but with FAANG stocks taking a battering and the price of gold tumbling from its 2020 highs, is this still the case?

PALM BEACH, Fla. , Feb. 10, 2022 /PRNewswire/ -- FinancialNewsMedia.com News Commentary - There is reason for optimism regarding the earnings season even if the next quarter is less that the last. According to an article on FACTSET which said: "At this point in time, the number of companies beating EPS estimates is equal to the five-year average, but the amount by which companies are beating estimates is slightly below the five-year average. As a result, the first week of February 2022 the S&P 500 index is reporting higher earnings for the fourth quarter relative to the end of last week and relative to the end of the quarter. The index is reporting earnings growth of more than 25% for the fourth straight quarter and earnings growth of more than 45% for the full year. These above-average growth rates are due to a combination of higher earnings in 2021 and an easier comparison to weaker earnings in 2020 due to the negative impact of COVID-19 on a number of industries. Due to these positive EPS surprises, the index is reporting higher earnings for the fourth quarter today relative to the end of last week and relative to the end of the fourth quarter.

Activist investor group Macellum Advisors GP LLC has named the slate of 10 board members that it will nominate at Kohl''s Corp.''s next investor day, scheduled for March 7, including Stacy Hawkins, a Rutgers Law School educator and diversity consultant; Jeffrey Kantor, former Macy''s Inc. executive with 40 years of retail experience; and Perry Mandarino, co-head of investment banking, head of restructuring and senior managing director of B. Riley Securities, Inc. In a lengthy letter, Macellum Managing Partner Jonathan Duskin criticized the poison pill that Kohl''s put in place last week, and once again noted the department store retailer''s ongoing "underperformance." Duskin is also one of Macellum''s nominees. Macellum also suggested that Kohl''s has paid a visit to Amazon.com Inc. "With reports now swirling about the Company''s jet recently flying to Seattle, Washington, where Amazon is headquartered, we hope the incumbents are not losing sight of their fiduciary duties," the letter said. "We need to question whether the Board is fully cognizant of its obligations given it has yet to announce the Company will run an open, fair and fulsome process to evaluate all potential offers that could maximize value for shareholders." Kohl''s has rejected the buyout offers it received.

E-commerce giant Amazon.com, Inc. (NASDAQ: AMZN ) isn’t known for its video game division, but that could change with another potential hit. What Happened: Amazon Games and Smilegate released a new massively multiplayer online role-playing game (MMORPG) called Lost Ark this week to people who bought Founder’s Packs for early access. Amazon signed as the North America and European release partner for Lost Ark, which will officially be released in those markets on Feb. 11 as a free-to-play PC game. The game was first launched in 2019 in South Korea by Smilegate, … Full story available on Benzinga.com

E-commerce firm Amazon has facilitated shipment of products worth USD 3 billion from India in about six years'' time, a senior company official said on Wednesday. The company has set target to enable exports worth USD 10 billion from India by 2025. "We look at a billion dollars as yardstick to measure how a certain program within Amazon is growing. On export, it took as 3 years to get first billion dollar, 18 months to get to second and 12 months to get the third billion dollar. This is all Made in India product," Amazon India Director for Global Trade Abhijit Kamra said. The company has started onboarding exporters and start-ups under the Amazon Global Selling Propel (AGSP) program which it started last year to groom the firms as well as support them in scaling up their business. The company has launched season 2 of its Propel Startup Accelerator program aimed at boosting exports and creating global brands from India. The company will select emerging brands and start-ups from Indi

Following Meta Platforms Inc''s (NASDAQ: FB ) weak earnings results , the stock tanked and is now down more than 30% since the start of the year. "Shark Tank" investor and O''Shares ETFs chairman Kevin O''Leary thinks the stock has fallen far enough. "This is the bottom," O''Leary said Wednesday on CNBC. "This is where you want to accumulate." O''Leary''s Thesis: It''s very rare to see one of the FAANG names fall so dramatically in such a short period of time. Even though retail investors own a portion of the shares, the vast majority are owned by … Full story available on Benzinga.com

Bengaluru, Feb 9 (IANS) To help emerging Indian brands and startups to reach customers around the world, Amazon India on Wednesday launched the second season of its Global Selling Propel startup accelerator. The participating startups will get an opportunity to win a total equity-free grant of $100,000 from Amazon as well as free AWS credits [] The post Amazon India unveils startup accelerator 2.0 to nurture emerging brands appeared first on Buziness Bytes .