Amazon Prime is raising prices for the first time since 2018. The monthly fee will go up to $15 (previously $13) or $139 per year (previously $119). The higher rates start February 18 for new customers, but won’t take effect for existing customers until they renew on March 25 or later. Amazon pinned the gains as it “continues to expand” Prime perks, like free games through Twitch and with higher wages () and shipping costs.
There’s also the company’s major Prime Video projects: the upcoming Lord of the Rings series is expected to cost $465 million for the first season alone.
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Bezos may no longer be CEO, but the Amazon founder will profit from those price hikes. And he has things to spend money on, like his ostentatious Y721 superyacht. It is so large that to get it across Rotterdam, the shipbuilder will have to temporarily dismantle part of the bridge. The city is starting to worry about the decision. The Koningshaven Bridge, built in 1927, was declared a national monument after it was decommissioned in 1994. The city completed its restoration in 2017 and vowed never to dismantle the bridge again. . But we are here.
Snapchat has more users than ever before.
Almost 5 years after listing, Snap is finally profitable. The company shared the milestone in its Q4 earnings announcement, when it reported positive net income of $23 million. Sure, that’s a tiny percentage of the $4.1 billion total quarterly revenue, but it’s an important step for a company that sometimes struggles with user growth. Daily active users have now grown to 319 million.
The Biden administration wants zero-emissions mail vehicles.
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Improved eye control speed and focus, for a price.
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The 24-megapixel, $6,000 EOS R3 is the mirrorless equivalent of Canon’s 1DX Mark III DSLR. It delivers incredible shooting speeds of up to 30fps, with reliable autofocus that can handle face and eye tracking for people and animals. According to Steve Dent, who put the camera through its paces, the image quality is the best we’ve seen on any Canon camera. The new eye-control AF lets you focus on a subject just by looking at the subject – something that works well for some, but not everyone. The R3 is also very powerful with video, handling 6K RAW at 60fps without overheating issues. The only caveat is that price.
The company is now the number two EV retailer.
In addition to the amazing pre-order numbers for both the Maverick hybrid and the EV F-150 Lightning, Ford’s EV propulsion is in the works. The company reported January electric vehicle sales “increased almost four times faster than the overall electrification segment” (13,169 units in total), making Ford the No. two in the country after Tesla, while also making Ford the best-selling electric vehicle retailer overall. The company sold 6,513 Mavericks in January alone.
It just surpassed the Wii with sales of 103.54 million units since its launch in 2017.
Nintendo Switch: another success story. Now it has become the best of the Wii, making it the best-selling home console ever. Thanks to the so-called “good start” of the OLED Switch, it sold 10.67 million units in the third quarter (October to December), far exceeding the 3.9 million PS5 Sony sold. . That brings the Switch’s total sales to 103.54 million since it launched in 2017, surpassing the Wii’s lifetime sales of 101.63 million. Having said that, Nintendo has revised down its annual forecast of a million units drop. The company now believes it will sell 23 million units, down from the 24 million it predicted last quarter.
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