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Amazon reported strong earnings for the fourth quarter. From $163,200 to nearly $60 million, here’s how the firm paid its executives in 2019.

Amazon beat fourth quarter analyst expectations with diluted EPS of $14.09. In 2019, Amazon’s executives earned between $163,200 and over $50 million. Due to previous equity awards, some executives did not receive stock in 2019. Visit Business Insider’s homepage for more stories. Amazon reported diluted EPS of $14.09 for the fourth quarter of 2020 on … Read more

Amazon’s Bezos to step down as CEO; quarterly revenue tops $100 billion for first time

The transition, slated for the third quarter, will make current cloud computing chief Andy Jassy Amazon’s next chief executive officer. Amazon.com Inc on Tuesday said founder Jeff Bezos would step down as CEO and become executive chairman, as the company reported its third consecutive record profit and quarterly sales above $100 billion for the first … Read more

Shares of Reliance Industries plunge 6% on disclosure concerns

Shares of Mukesh Ambani-led Reliance Industries (RIL) plunged nearly six per cent — the most since November 2 — after analysts raised concerns over disclosure standards. The country’s most-valuable firm on Friday reported record quarterly profit for the quarter ended December 31, but didn’t disclose gross refining margins (GRM), a key metric to analyse its … Read more

GOLDMAN SACHS: Buy these 25 stocks best-positioned to juice profits in 2021 as stimulus and vaccine progress spur economic growth

One of the most important questions for investors in 2021 is how to bet on the ongoing economy recovery – even if its course looks uncertain right now. Goldman Sachs is giving its answer. Chief US Equity Strategist David Kostin says he expects success for companies with high operating leverage, or the companies that will experience … Read more

Udaan gets $280 million funding boost, now valued at over $3 billion

Udaan, the business-to-business (B2B) e-commerce platform, has kick-started the new year with a fund-raise of $280 million, largely from its existing investors including China’s internet giant Tencent. Venture funds Lightspeed Venture Partners, DST Global, GGV Capital and Altimeter Capital are existing investors who have also contributed to this round. There are two new investors — … Read more

Mukesh Ambani: Mukesh Ambani is under pressure to turn his old-economy conglomerate into a technology titan

Mukesh Ambani spent much of 2020 convincing Facebook Inc., Google and a clutch of Wall Street heavyweights to buy into his vision for one of the world’s most ambitious corporate transformations. Now flush with $27 billion in fresh capital, Asia’s richest man is under pressure to deliver. The 63-year-old Indian tycoon is focused on a … Read more

China launches an antitrust investigation into Alibaba as its crackdown on Jack Ma’s tech empire continues

Chinese regulators announced measures to crack down on Jack Ma’s Alibaba and Ant Group on Thursday. Beijing will investigate e-commerce site Alibaba, co-founded by Ma, over alleged anti-monopolistic practices, and urge fintech Ant Group to implement stricter financial regulations, regulators said. Ant Group’s IPO, which would have been the world’s biggest-ever, was halted in November … Read more

Jeff Bezos is back in the trenches at Amazon. Insiders describe working with a more deeply-involved CEO.

Amazon CEO Jeff Bezos is now more fully involved in the daily operations of the company, after having spent the past few years almost exclusively focused on long-term projects. Bezos has said he prefers working 2 to 3 years into the future, and he rarely gets pulled into the daily oversight of the company — … Read more

Zomato raises $195 million in funding from 6 investors, valuation touches $3.6 billion

Info Edge on Friday said its investee company Zomato has raised $195 million (about Rs 1,455.4 crore) in funding from six investors including Luxor, Kora and Steadview, valuing the online food ordering platform at $3.6 billion. “Zomato Pvt Ltd has closed a primary fundraise of $195 million from six different investors…The transactions valued Zomato at … Read more