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[New] Amazon and Flipkart are pushing back against a proposed Indian tax on the online eCommerce market, saying it will stymie growth in the industry.
Google is still significantly ahead of Amazon in terms of search ad revenue share, owning 73 percent compared to Amazon's 13 percent in the US in 2019, but a slow, continuous decline is expected over the coming years.
Amazon, Facebook and Google are all expected to increase revenue by more than 16% a year in the three years from 2019 to 2021.
In even more telling, smart home competitors Amazon and Google will collectively control an estimated 94% of the smart speaker market this year.
Tech giants Amazon, Google and Microsoft will continue to evolve their product offerings and develop their marketing tactics in 2020, all aiming for the coveted 'top spot' and market dominance.
The projected intensification of Amazon fire regimes under both RCP2.6 and RCP8.5 climate scenarios in the coming decades underscores the need to counteract increasing fire risk to conserve Amazon forests.
So far this year, 213 public companies have mentioned Amazon in the risk factors section of their annual 10K financial filings, where companies state the most significant risks to their business.
Amazon is seen by many as the leader in the world of voice, and its engineering expertise will be helping to transform the way consumers interact with everyday devices like TVs.
As deforestation in the Brazilian Amazon soars under President Jair Bolsonaro, a new study warns that the regrowth of logged Amazon forests, and the amount of CO2 they store, is far less than previously believed.
FedEx decided this year to cut ties with Amazon after concluding that other retailers had become large enough that they could provide enough daily packages to create routes with enough stops close together.
Eight tech titans including Google, Facebook and Amazon dominate the global advertising industry and will spend £25bn on advertising this year.
Amazon announced three new renewable energy projects in the US and Spain that support Amazon's commitment to reach 80 percent renewable energy by 2024 and 100 percent renewable energy target by 2030.
Amazon will work to drastically reduce its carbon emissions with the ultimate goal of becoming carbon-neutral by 2040 - all part of an effort to avert some of the most catastrophic effects of climate change.
Data privacy regulation will be the biggest threat to the likes of Google, Amazon, Facebook and Apple over the next few years.
In order to combat the threat from Amazon in the last few years, brands have been teaming up with Google at an ever-increasing rate.
Amazon has announced three major renewable energy deals, including the largest corporate wind power purchase agreement in Europe, as it pushes towards a goal to source 100% renewable energy across its global operations by 2030.
Amazon recently announced plans to purchase 100,000 electric vans as part of its commitment to go carbon neutral by 2040, while cities such as Cambridge, Massachusetts, and Portland, Oregon, have pledged to 100 percent renewable-powered, community-wide transportation by 2035 and 2050, respectively.
The Climate Pledge calls on signatories to be net zero carbon across their businesses by 2040 - a decade ahead of the Paris Accord's goal of 2050.
CEO Jeff Bezos recently signed The Climate Pledge on behalf of Amazon to advance Paris Climate Accord goals by 10 years, even though his own company could be doing much more for sustainability and climate change.
In the United States, Amazon Go has announced plans to open nearly 3,000 cashier-less stores by 2021.
Amazon continues to grow its US ecommerce sales at above-average rates and will increase its market share from 36.5% in 2018 to 37.7% in 2019.
Google Cloud will need to watch its back because next year, Alibaba will likely steal its third place spot in the cloud wars against Amazon and Microsoft.
In 2020, Alibaba will surpass Google Cloud in revenue and become the third place cloud globally, behind Amazon Web Services and Microsoft.

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Last updated: 23 February 2020