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AI powers Microsoft, Amazon's record-breaking sales, and Apple beats the Street: The week in tech earnings

AI powers Microsoft, Amazon's record-breaking sales, and Apple beats the Street: The week in tech earnings

Plus, Google parent Alphabet will keep cutting costs, and Meta's metaverse is back

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It was a busy week in tech earnings to close out a January in which the so-called Magnificent 7 technology stocks led the broader market to start 2024.

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Amazon, Microsoft, Apple, Google parent Alphabet and Facebook parent Meta all reported quarterly earnings this week.

Check out the slideshow above to see what you might have missed.

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Customers bought more than 1 billion items during Amazon’s 11-day Black Friday and Cyber Monday sales event this year.
Image: Brendan McDermid (Reuters)

Amazon stock jumped over 8% on Thursday during after-hours trading after the company reported better-than-expected fourth-quarter earnings. — Bruce Gil

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Apple CEO Tim Cook
Apple CEO Tim Cook
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Apple stock fell during after-hours trading even after the company’s earnings beat Wall Street’s expectations. — Laura Bratton

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Microsoft CEO Satya Nadella speaks during a Reuters Newsmaker event in Manhattan, New York, U.S., September 27, 2017.
Satya Nadella is in charge of the company helping to lead the generative AI industry.
Photo: Shannon Stapleton (Reuters)

Tech layoffs are happening—and Microsoft is no exception. But Microsoft’s bottom line is thriving. In the last three months ending Jan. 30, the company recorded revenue of $62.0 billion, up 18% from the same period last year. The tech giant’s cloud business, which includes its Azure division, posted revenue of $25.9 billion, up 20%. — Michelle Cheng

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Alphabet CEO Sundar Pichai touts company’s AI ambitions on a Tuesday call with investors.
Image: Denis Balibouse (Reuters)

Despite Alphabet, the parent company of Google and YouTube, reporting strong quarterly revenue and profit on Tuesday, the search engine and online ad giant remains focused on cutting costs. — Bruce Gil

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Designers of the first Egyptian virtual city METATUT in a virtual tour on the Metaverse while wearing VR headsets and handles in Cairo, Egypt December 5, 2022. The idea of the city depends on an imaginary assumption, that king Tutankhamun came back to life in 2022 to complete what he dreamed to accomplish in Egypt, but this time through the virtual world.
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Mark Zuckerberg is on a mission to make the metaverse happen. In the last three months ending Dec. 31, Meta’s Reality Labs division hit $1 billion for the first time — while also recording $4.65 billion in losses. To be sure, the VR headsets still make up a slither of Meta’s overall revenue, which continues to be driven by the company’s ad business. — Michelle Cheng

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