Michael Nunez, deputy tech editor at Mashable.com, discusses recent reports that Amazon will layoff hundreds of employees from its consumer retail business.
Nunez says these layoffs shouldn't worry investors, adding that overall headcount is still increasing. He talks about Amazon's move into this next chapter as they focus on artificial intelligence, the Whole Foods acquisition, and Amazon Web Services.
Wall Street is shaky Thursday as investors consider both the upsides and downsides of the latest signals that the U.S. economy remains in much better shape than feared.
Threatened by possible shortages of lithium for electric car batteries, automakers are racing to lock in supplies of the once-obscure “white gold” in a politically and environmentally fraught competition from China to Nevada to Chile.
The number of different electronic cigarette devices sold in the U.S. has nearly tripled to over 9,000 since 2020, driven almost entirely by a wave of unauthorized disposable vapes from China, according to tightly controlled sales data obtained by The Associated Press.
