TNB Tech Minute: Amazon Posts Record First-Quarter Sales
WSJ Tech News Briefing
The Wall Street Journal
4.3 • 1.7K Ratings
🗓️ 30 April 2024
⏱️ 2 minutes
🧾️ Download transcript
Summary
Transcript
Click on a timestamp to play from that location
| 0:00.0 | This episode is brought to you by Shopify. |
| 0:03.0 | Looking to start a side hustle or become your own boss. |
| 0:05.0 | Do it with Shopify. |
| 0:07.0 | Whether you're selling succulents or stilettoes, |
| 0:09.0 | Shopify has the industry leading tools to help you create, |
| 0:12.0 | control and grow your own business. |
| 0:13.7 | So get serious about selling and get Shopify today. |
| 0:16.7 | Sign up for a one pound per month trial period at shopify.coidek slash special offer |
| 0:21.8 | or lowercase that That Shopify. |
| 0:24.0 | Coe dek slash Special Offer. |
| 0:27.0 | Here's your Tn B Tech Minute for Tuesday, April 30th. |
| 0:31.0 | I'm Alex Osala for the Wall Street Journal. |
| 0:34.8 | Amazon has reported record first-quarter sales as the artificial intelligence boom |
| 0:39.1 | powered growth in its cloud computing unit. Revenue rose 13% to reach a hundred forty three |
| 0:44.6 | point three billion dollars an all-time high in the January to March period and profit |
| 0:49.4 | surge to ten point four billion dollars. Both figures exceeded Wall Street expectations. |
| 0:54.8 | Sales in the Amazon Web Services Cloud Computing |
| 0:57.2 | arm, a critically important profit center for Amazon, |
| 1:00.0 | increased more than 17% in the first quarter to about $25 billion. |
| 1:04.8 | The division's operating profit rose nearly 84%. |
| 1:08.8 | Shanghai Jao, who founded Binance, the world's biggest crypto exchange, has been sentenced to four months in jail. |
| 1:15.3 | In November, Jao pleaded guilty to violating U.S. anti-money laundering requirements. |
... |
Please login to see the full transcript.
Disclaimer: The podcast and artwork embedded on this page are from The Wall Street Journal, and are the property of its owner and not affiliated with or endorsed by Tapesearch.
Generated transcripts are the property of The Wall Street Journal and are distributed freely under the Fair Use doctrine. Transcripts generated by Tapesearch are not guaranteed to be accurate.
Copyright © Tapesearch 2026.

