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Amazon invested over £15 billion ($20 billion) in Britain in ‌2025, keeping the e-commerce giant ‌on track to deliver its planned £40 billion investment ​in the three years to the end of 2027, it said on Wednesday. Investments in 2025 included the launch of new ‌operational sites, expanded ⁠studio production facilities and office space, as well as the ⁠start of a drone deliveries trial. Updating on its annual UK economic impact and ​tax disclosure, ​Amazon also ​said: • In 2025, the ‌total revenues of its activities in the UK were more than £30 billion.

The online marketplace is one of the UK’s biggest employers with about 75,000 staff.

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Forget showing up to the office early or working through your lunch break. If you want to impress your boss in 2026, you need to be “tokenising”.

Snowflake is counting on its revenue model and data warehousing to flourish with the rise of AI agents. It will report earnings after the close Wednesday.

Mastercard (NYSE:MA) is partnering with JD.com to expand payment infrastructure and co-develop AI powered commerce tools in China. The company is also rolling out new Amazon Business credit cards that run on the Mastercard network, with built in spend management and security features. Mastercard, trading at $493.01, is moving beyond headline earnings and focusing attention on where and how transactions happen. The stock has declined 12.5% year to date and 13.7% over the past year, and it...

European leaders are divided on how far to go in curbing Big Tech as they weigh momentous decisions over giving EU firms preferential access to mobile satellite spectrum and limiting large multinationals' access to EU cloud tenders. On Tuesday, ‌Reuters reported Brussels was likely to leave an opening for Elon Musk's Starlink and Amazon's low-earth-orbit satellite business Leo to acquire lucrative European ‌mobile satellite spectrum next year as a result of a compromise that will reserve the bulk of frequencies for European firms. A separate decision on EU cloud tenders set for June 3 is expected to ​temper the influence of U.S. firms such as Amazon, Alphabet's Google and Microsoft, which dominate the global cloud market with a combined 63% share.