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Here's your morning TNB Tech Minute for Friday, February 20th. I'm Julie Chang for the Wall Street Journal. Amazon is now the country's largest company by revenue, surpassing Walmart.

Walmart reported around $713 billion in sales in the year through the end of January, about $4 billion lower than

Amazon. People familiar with the matter say Walmart leadership prepared for years to lose the title,

shifting its focus to becoming America's favorite place to shop over being the biggest or growing fast.

Both companies declined to comment on the revenue change, but an Amazon

spokeswoman highlighted the company's fast delivery speeds in 2025. An Apple foray and two smart

glasses should be seen as a boon for usular luxotica and not a threat to its position in the

booming category. That's according to an analyst at Stiefel. Shares and the Franco-Italian eyewear

giant took a hit this week over a report that Apple is gearing up to begin production of its own

model of AI-powered glasses as early as the end of this year. That could create a rival to

Esselaer Laxotica's models in partnership with tech giant meta, but the analysts set an entry

by Apple and other

tech firms into the market should speed up consumer awareness and expand the total addressable

market. And a former Google employee accused of stealing trade secrets related to the company's

pixel phones was indicted yesterday. The employee worked as a hardware engineer for the company

from 2019 to

2023. She was charged with six theft-related charges and her husband and sister were also

indicted on similar charges. Companies are facing increased security threats in an era of

rapidly evolving technology. The Google case is the third high-profile incident in recent years

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