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Amazon beats Covid-19 pandemic woes, clocks $345-million profit

Says focus on digitising Indian small businesses

Top headlines: SBI Q1 profit jumps 81%, RBI may extend moratorium

Here are the top headlines of the day

Amazon posts record Q2 earnings as online sales soar 48% amid Covid-19

Rival brick-and-mortar retailers shut stores in lockdowns for coronavirus, as Amazon hired 175,000 people and saw demand for its services soar

Facebook, Apple, Google, Amazon report mixed earnings in Covid-hit quarter

The staggering economic fallout caused by the coronavirus pandemic was reflected in reports released Thursday from Amazon, Facebook, Apple, and Google

Top headlines: RIL's PBT dips 40%, battle to save jobs at Air India & more

From Reliance Industries reporting dip in profit-before tax, Tony Fernandes cutting AirAsia exit price to $50 mn to Air India pitching leave-without-pay scheme, here are the top news on Friday morning

Antitrust hearing: Jeff Bezos testifies before Congress for the first time

After avoiding any questioning for the first two hours of the hearing, Bezos fielded multiple questions on Amazon's approach to pricing

Prime Day: SMBs, start-ups on Amazon set to launch over 1,000 new products

Thousands of local shops on Amazon sellers will be also making their Prime Day debut in India

Amazon Prime Day sale begins Aug 6, to offer over 1000 new products

More than 270 handicrafts sourced from artisans across the country will be on offer during Prime Day, says company

Tech billionaires like Bezos must answer: Will they let workers unionize?

Amazon's decision to fire the activists was easy to make in the United States, where Amazon workers have no union and are left to fend for themselves

Jeff Bezos, Mark Zuckerberg, Elon Musk made $115 billion this year

Their fast-growing wealth provides a breathtaking measure of their companies' economic might

4 Big Tech CEOs under US Congress scanner on issues of competition, privacy

One of them is the world's richest individual (Bezos); another is the fourth-ranked billionaire (Zuckerberg)

My mother had me when she was 17, says Jeff Bezos in prepared testimony

Amazon boss's statement talks about personal life and narrates the difficulties the company faced in initial years of its existence

Amazon CEO Jeff Bezos' ex-wife donates $1.7 billion for social causes

MacKenzie Scott, former wife of Amazon CEO Jeff Bezos, announced that she has donated around $1.7 bn to groups involved in philanthropic causes such as healthcare, LGBT rights and racial justice

In prepared remarks, big tech CEOs defend themselves ahead of US testimony

Jeff Bezos, Tim Cook, Mark Zuckerberg and Sundar Pichai to be grilled over the dominance in their fields of e-retail, smartphone software, social media and search.

RIL's home team advantage

India's complicated e-commerce policy with restrictions on overseas investors may help keep out global retail and e-commerce players

US House panel hearing with big tech CEOs rescheduled for Wednesday

The panel has conducted a bipartisan investigation over the past year of the tech giants' market dominance and their effect on consumers

Google getting serious about competing with Amazon in online shopping

As the coronavirus pandemic continues, the push to create an online shopping marketplace to compete with Amazon has taken on new urgency as consumers are avoiding stores

SC to hear plea for display of 'country of origin' on products by e-tailers

A bench of Chief Justice S A Bobde and Justices A S Bopanna and V Ramasubramanian issued notice to the Centre and sought its response

RIL pips ExxonMobil, becomes world's second most valued energy firm

The oil-to-telecom conglomerate is now ranked 46th globally on market cap, according to stock market data

MARKET WRAP: Sensex trims losses, ends 12 pts down; Nifty closes at 11,194

All that happened in the markets today