Welcome to the Tech Mem Ride Home for Friday, January 31st, 2020. I'm Brian McCullough.

Today, Amazon earnings. The new Apple Maps are rolling out in the U.S.

Uber and DoorDash held merger talks at Soft Banks behest,

who's number two to Tik-Tok in short-form videos,

and of course the weekend long read suggestions.

Here's what you miss today in the world of tech. Final earnings Up of the Week, Amazon's Q4 came in at 87.4 billion in revenue, up 21% year over year.

Net income came in at 3.3 billion in revenue, but that was also up from 3 billion a year ago.

What really matters the most for the stock of course is that AWS revenue came in at

9.9 billion dollars up from 7.4 billion a year ago. This news has buoyed Amazon stock

and by trading up about 9% this morning that means that Amazon's market

cap is back above the magic one trillion dollars mark. More details from

Amazon on the earnings call Jeff Bazel said Prime now has over 150 million

members worldwide up from the 100 million that the company reported 21 months ago

and Amazon's other revenue category, which mostly consists of its advertising business, came in at 4.87 billion dollars in revenue up 41% year over year.

That means Amazon's ad business is growing faster than Facebook is at the moment.

Oh, and subscription services revenue was 5.24 billion dollars up 32% year over year,

so don't forget Amazon's in that game too.

One interesting detail here from the Wall Street Journal.

Amazon's margins actually remained healthy despite all that Ballyhoot investment in one day shipping and the like.

There was investor concern that one day shipping would be a drag to margins,

so the fact that they have been able to offer one day shipping and also at the same time drives some

efficiency has to please investors Raymond James analyst Aaron Kessler said

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