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Stord raised $250M at $3B valuation to expand AI-powered fulfillment platform, positioning independent brands to compete with Amazon's e-commerce dominance through advanced warehouse automation.
Alphabet partners with DocMorris to develop a digital health companion, signaling a strategic entrance into health tech innovation.
French startup Mistral AI invests $1.2 billion in a Swedish data center to build a European AI stack, challenging US-based giants like Amazon, Microsoft, and Google by targeting regional demand for t…
Alphabet topped Q4 earnings with strong revenue and cloud growth, but investors remain cautious due to a massive 2026 capex forecast near $180 billion to fund AI and product expansion.
The article features stock picks from top investors highlighting DoorDash's long-term growth via AI and market dominance. Amazon is a competitor benefiting neutrally, while DoorDash invests heavily i…
Google's new AI-driven Universal Commerce Protocol sets a standard for AI shopping assistants, aiming to reshape e-commerce and secure advertising dominance amid rising AI automation threats.
Google launched an AI-driven commerce protocol targeting massive e-commerce markets, secured $2.4 billion in green energy deals for data centers, and is expanding AI assistant Gemini’s personalized f…
Microsoft increases annual spending on Anthropic AI models to $500 million, integrating them across products and incentivizing Azure sales staff, strengthening its multi-model AI strategy amid compet…
Alphabet awaits EU approval for $32B Wiz acquisition to boost cloud against rivals, with strong AI user growth and HSBC issuing buy ratings amid cautious sentiment.
Meta acquires Chinese AI startup Manus to boost AI integration across its platforms, signaling accelerated technology development.
Microsoft plans a $23 billion AI-focused investment, including $17.5 billion in India, to expand cloud infrastructure and compete with Amazon and Alphabet amid rising AI demand.
Amazon faces a major FTC antitrust lawsuit, a global AWS outage disrupting key platforms, and EU investigations into its market dominance, pressuring the stock negatively.
Microsoft and Google commit over $16 billion to expand AI infrastructure in Europe, enhancing their competitive edge in growing AI demand.
India proposes mandatory country-of-origin filters on e-commerce platforms, favoring domestic products and challenging foreign sellers like Amazon amid rising US tariffs and trade diversification eff…
Google plans its largest-ever investment in Germany, announced with the German Finance Minister, signaling strong growth prospects in the European market.
Microsoft secured a $9.7 billion five-year cloud contract with data center operator IREN, involving access to Nvidia’s processors, boosting growth prospects for both tech giants.
Alphabet and PayPal launch an agentic commerce solution for merchants, enhancing e-commerce capabilities via Google Cloud integration.
Alphabet’s Google is set to invest in THG Ingenuity, a demerged part of British e-commerce firm THG, valuing it at over £750 million, signaling strategic expansion into e-commerce technology.
Microsoft signed a $17.4B (expandable to $19.4B) five-year deal with Nebius for 100,000+ Nvidia GB300 chips to offload AI workloads to neoclouds, freeing Azure capacity to run OpenAI models amid surg…