Image copyright Getty Images Amazon sales soared over the Christmas season, rising 21% from the prior year, in sharp contrast to weakness reported by other retailers. The e-commerce juggernaut said it earned $87bn (£66bn) in sales in the last three months of the year, well ahead of analyst expectations. Its cloud services division, a key […]
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SAN FRANCISCO — Amazon sold a lot of things to a lot of people in the last three months of 2019, as speedy shipping shortened the time between “I want it” and “It’s here.” That was expected. What no one forecast was that profits would also shoot up. On Thursday, Amazon said it had earned
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MIAMI — With the Super Bowl coming to town, Marc Buoniconti sat in his office talking about the Chiefs-49ers matchup and wondered who was favored, so he looked at the phone strapped on the right arm of his wheelchair. “Siri, what is the current point spread for the Super Bowl?” Buoniconti asked. Answer: Chiefs by
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This was Iowa caucus night back in the mid-1970s. And these are members of the national media covering the voting. It was so unusual to see national media in Iowa back then that people actually paid to watch them. “The Democratic Party charged $15 a head for people to watch the media watch the people.”
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SAN FRANCISCO — For years, a determined state senator has pushed a singular vision: a bill challenging California’s devotion to both single-family housing and motor vehicles by stripping away limits on housing density near public transit. Now the state will have to look for other ways to relieve its relentless housing crisis. On Thursday, one
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Media playback is unsupported on your device Media captionDr Tedros: “We must all act together now to limit further spread” The new coronavirus has been declared a global emergency by the World Health Organization, as the outbreak continues to spread outside China. “The main reason for this declaration is not what is happening in China
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“Schitt’s Creek” scene-stealer Annie Murphy dropped by “The Kelly Clarkson Show” this week and, along with the Grammy-winning host, gave a hilarious performance of “A Little Bit Alexis.” Murphy’s character, Alexis Rose, sang the ridiculous, Paris Hilton-inspired song in an episode of the Canadian comedy (see video below). According to Alexis, the song was the
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Bucket lists form early. When I was, maybe, 10, flipping through books in my grandfather’s house I came across a photograph of the Great Mosque at Djenné in Mali, West Africa, and thought, this is the strangest, most wonderful, most outer-space building I’ve ever seen. Beige-color and turreted, it was as soft-edged as a sand
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COLUMBUS, Ohio — Just before he heads to the tunnel after a win, Columbus Blue Jackets goalie Elvis Merzlikins gets a running start and leaps into the arms of captain Nick Foligno in joyful celebration. The “jump hug” is a big thing in Columbus these days — just like Elvis. The 25-year-old Latvian rookie, all
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Some House lawmakers, fresh off votes across the Capitol, arrived on the floor of the Senate chamber to watch the proceedings. Representatives Dean Phillips of Minnesota and Tom Malinowski of New Jersey, both Democratic freshmen, could be seen standing by the doors behind the Republican desks. When a staff member gently pointed them to the
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