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[New] Australia will become the first country to require Facebook and Google to pay for news content provided by media companies under a royalty-style system that will become law in 2020.
[New] Other U.S. companies that might make a retaliatory short list include Amazon Web Services, which has a cloud services joint venture in China; Apple, which has huge markets and supply chains in China; and Microsoft, which has major markets, research and development, and supply chains in China.
[New] Taiwan's PCB makers in the supply chain for Apple devices will see their shipments for new iPhones not peak until the fourth quarter in 2020 as Apple has confirmed its iPhone 12 lineup will debut later than normally scheduled in September.
[New] Facebook's new Shops platform has the potential to pose a real threat to Amazon in the coming years.
The goal of Amazon and other companies who have signed The Climate Pledge is to be net zero by 2040, a decade ahead of the Paris Agreement target.
The mobile payments market is forecast to grow to $4.69 trillion by 2025 from $1.13 trillion last year, driving growth for services such as PayPal, Samsung Pay, Apple Pay, AliPay and WeChat Pay.
Tech giants including Google and Amazon will unwittingly direct some $25 million to websites spreading Covid-19 misinformation in 2020 through their digital advertising platforms..
Amazon Web Services will keep growing significantly as the public cloud market is expected to grow at a CAGR of 20% + over the coming five years.
A new platform led by Imperial College London and enabled by Amazon Web Services (AWS) will pool global data on COVID-19 from over half a million sources in response to the infodemic.
Digital advertising platforms run by Google, Amazon.com Inc. and other tech companies will funnel at least $25 million to websites spreading misinformation about Covid-19 in 2020.
Huawei plans to sell 20 million Mate 30 devices even without Google services: At the Mate 30 launch event, Huawei tells Android Authority that it hopes to ship up to 20 million devices thanks to strong sales in China.
To help meet a goal to make 50% of all shipments carbon neutral by 2030, Amazon plans to put 10,000 new vehicles on the road as early as 2022, and 100,000 vehicles on the road by 2030.
By the end of 2020, several types of quantum computer will be available through cloud services hosted by Amazon and Microsoft.
Spending by drivers via Google Assistant integrated into digital dashboards is expected to increase by 31.9% in the next few years.
With China's economy starting up again much ahead of major economies in Europe and the United States, Alibaba said it expects to generate over ¥650 billion in revenue in fiscal 2021.
The top 10 ecommerce companies have about 60% of the share of online sales this year: The fastest growing company is Amazon with a forecasted share of 38% in 2020 (about $47 billion).
Amazon is expected to lead the way in online sales, taking up 38% of market share.
The five largest US technology firms, Alphabet, Amazon, Apple, Facebook and Microsoft will be well placed to expand into the Gulf should the regulatory framework become more favourable.
Facebook is projected to have $31.43 billion in ad revenue for the year, up 4.9%, with its market share increasing to 23.4%, from 22.7%.
US telecoms giant Verizon has become the latest company to suspend advertising on Facebook, threatening to further damage the social media firm's primary revenue stream after it has already taken a hit from the coronavirus pandemic.
Google will have a solid lead, netting 58.5% of US search ad revenues this year, compared with 17.1% at Amazon.
Coronavirus is expected to have added £5.3 billion to the UK's ecommerce sector by the end of the year, with Amazon poised to benefit the most.

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Last updated: 09 August 2020