Amazon and Microsoft saw some great surge in the year 2024, backed by the epic bull run at the US stock market, especially in the filed of technology. But, who will get the edge in 2025? Here' what we

Amazon CEO Andy Jassy, left, speaking with Seattle Mayor Bruce Harrell at an event in Seattle last year to announce new funding for affordable housing

Both Amazon (NASDAQ: AMZN) and Microsoft (NASDAQ: MSFT) saw strong growth in their cloud-computing business units in 2024. While Microsoft's Azure saw the higher revenue growth, it was Amazon's stock that outperformed in 2024.

The cloud units of Amazon, Alphabet, and Microsoft are maintaining their operating margins as they forge ahead with record capital investments to finance AI infrastructure buildouts.

Microsoft, Meta, Amazon, OpenAI CEO Sam Altman, and Apple CEO Tim Cook are among the tech titans who donated a million dollars to President-elect Donald Trump’s inauguration.

That said, 20% earnings growth is still impressive and is reason enough to own the stock, as long as it can be purchased at a fair price. Amazon currently trades at 36 times 2025 earnings, which is a bit pricey.

Tech’s biggest companies are turning to nuclear power for their efficiency and sustainability goals and to meet massive energy demands.

Amazon and Microsoft are the world's two largest cloud-computing companies. Both companies are seeing strong growth in their clouding-computing units. Meanwhile, both companies also have dominant ...

Amazon and Microsoft, of course, are more than just their cloud businesses. Amazon is still the world's largest e-commerce and logistics company. It also owns the Prime Video streaming service.

Dow Jones futures dropped Friday ahead of the imminent December jobs report. Nvidia sold off on new AI chip limits.

Shares in Vistra ( VST -1.57%) rose by an incredible 257.9% in 2024, according to data provided by S&P Global Market Intelligence. The company started the year as an integrated retail electricity and power generation company, and it ended the year by becoming one of the year's hottest artificial intelligence (AI) plays on the market.