TNB Tech Minute: Amazon Revs Up Car Sales Service With More Brands
WSJ Tech News Briefing
The Wall Street Journal
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🗓️ 13 April 2026
⏱️ 4 minutes
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| 0:00.0 | Nearly home. |
| 0:02.2 | Isn't home where we all want to be? |
| 0:04.4 | Reba here for Realtor.com, the pro's number one most trusted app. |
| 0:09.1 | A dream home isn't a dream home if it comes with a nightmare commute. |
| 0:12.7 | That's why realter.com has real commute, so you can search by drive time. |
| 0:17.7 | Download the realtor.com app today because you're nearly home. Make it real with |
| 0:23.5 | real with realtor.com. Pros number one most trusted app based on August 2025 proprietary survey. |
| 0:31.4 | Here's your afternoon T&B Tech Minute for Monday, April 13th. I'm Julie Chang for the Wall Street Journal. Amazon expanded its Amazon |
| 0:40.2 | Auto's car sales service to include Kia, Mazda, Subaru, Chevrolet, and Jeep. Launched in 2024, |
| 0:48.0 | the program lets customers browse and purchase cars from nearby participating dealerships. |
| 0:53.3 | Dealers pay a fee to have their cars listed on Amazon, |
| 0:56.6 | but shoppers don't incur additional costs if they pull the trigger. |
| 1:00.5 | The service is active in over 130 cities, including Los Angeles, Dallas, and New York. |
| 1:06.7 | Insurers stand to gain big business from data centers. |
| 1:10.2 | In a report out today, S&P Global Ratings |
| 1:12.8 | estimates data centers could generate $10 billion in insurance premiums this year, double the $5 billion |
| 1:20.0 | paid by the entire aviation sector. With total worldwide insurance data center assets valued at |
| 1:27.1 | $2 trillion and projected to grow by |
| 1:29.7 | $300 billion in 2027, the firm calls this a, quote, huge growth opportunity for insurers. |
| 1:37.9 | And although the Trump administration put substantial tariffs on foreign products last year, |
| 1:43.1 | the goods trade deficit widened, |
| 1:45.9 | and AI might be to blame. Data shows that the effect of America's AI buildout on trade has been big. |
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