As of the most recent Circana charts, Black Ops 6 was the No. 2 best-selling game of 2024, behind EA's College Football 25. (Activision Image) It’s been a

As energy use by data centers and AI computing keeps climbing, tech giants Amazon and Microsoft are searching for clean power solutions.

Amazon CEO Andy Jassy, left, speaking with Seattle Mayor Bruce Harrell at an event in Seattle last year to announce new funding for affordable housing

Both Amazon (NASDAQ: AMZN) and Microsoft (NASDAQ: MSFT) saw strong growth in their cloud-computing business units in 2024. While Microsoft's Azure saw the higher revenue growth, it was Amazon's stock that outperformed in 2024.

The cloud units of Amazon, Alphabet, and Microsoft are maintaining their operating margins as they forge ahead with record capital investments to finance AI infrastructure buildouts.

That said, 20% earnings growth is still impressive and is reason enough to own the stock, as long as it can be purchased at a fair price. Amazon currently trades at 36 times 2025 earnings, which is a bit pricey.

Microsoft, Meta, Amazon, OpenAI CEO Sam Altman, and Apple CEO Tim Cook are among the tech titans who donated a million dollars to President-elect Donald Trump’s inauguration.

Amazon and Microsoft are the world's two largest cloud-computing companies. Both companies are seeing strong growth in their clouding-computing units. Meanwhile, both companies also have dominant ...

Amazon and Microsoft, of course, are more than just their cloud businesses. Amazon is still the world's largest e-commerce and logistics company. It also owns the Prime Video streaming service.

Wedbush analyst Dan Ives remains bullish and expects Tesla's market cap to hit $2 trillion in 2025, saying the coming four years will be a "total game changer" for Tesla. He expects the Trump administration to fast-track full self-driving (FSD), paving the way for the company's robotaxi agenda.

The world's top chip manufacturer on Friday said its December revenue reached 278.16 billion New Taiwan dollars ($8.4 billion), a 57.8% increase on the year. This brought the full-year figure to NT$2.894 trillion, a sharp rise from 2023, when the company logged its first annual decline since 2009 due to a global economic slowdown.