Updated October 2026 · reviewed for today In short The AI capex race is the contest among the largest cloud and platform companies, chiefly Amazon, Microsoft, Alphabet and Meta, to buy the data centres, chips and power that AI models need, on the bet that owning scarce compute decides who wins AI. In the quarter […]
Updated October 2026 · reviewed for today In short Amazon Web Services (AWS) makes money by renting computing, storage, databases and now AI models and chips to businesses, charged mostly by usage, and it earns most of Amazon’s profit: in the third quarter of 2026 (to 30 September) AWS had $45,984 million of sales, 23%
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Updated October 2026 · reviewed for today In short SERVPERF is a way to measure service quality using only customers’ ratings of the performance they received, with no separate expectations questions. J. Joseph Cronin Jr. and Steven A. Taylor proposed it in the Journal of Marketing in 1992 as an alternative to SERVQUAL, the perceptions-minus-expectations
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Updated October 2026 · reviewed for today In short The SUCCESs model is a checklist for making an idea stick: Simple, Unexpected, Concrete, Credible, Emotional, Stories. It comes from Chip and Dan Heath‘s book Made to Stick: Why Some Ideas Survive and Others Die published by Random House in January 2007. The book argues that
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HubSpot’s revenue rose 19% to $3.13 billion in fiscal 2025 (year to 31 December 2025), according to its 10-K. Subscriptions made up 98% of it; professional services and other added $67 million. By region, the Americas brought in $1.87 billion, Europe $1.01 billion and Asia Pacific $248 million.
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Nestlé had 271,000 employees in 2025, down from 277,000 in 2024, according to its 2025 financial statements. About 137,000 of them work in factories and 134,000 in administration and sales, the annual review says. They generated sales of CHF 89.5 billion, down from CHF 91.4 billion in 2024.
Updated October 2026 · reviewed for today In short Tesla’s competitors depend on the arena: in cars it meets established carmakers such as General Motors and BYD and EV specialists such as Rivian; in self-driving ride-hailing it meets Waymo and traditional ride-hailing and taxi services; in energy it meets storage makers, solar installers and the
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In short Microsoft employed approximately 223,000 people full-time at June 30, 2026, down from 228,000 a year earlier, according to its fiscal 2026 Form 10-K; about 121,000 were in the US. Revenue still grew 18% to $331.8B. Sources: Microsoft Form 10-K for fiscal 2026 (SEC EDGAR) and earlier 10-Ks. Analysis by The Business Engineer. How
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Updated October 2026 · reviewed for today In short An application binary interface (ABI) is the contract between two pieces of compiled code: it fixes how functions are called, how arguments and return values are passed, and how data is laid out in memory. An API says which functions exist in source code; the ABI
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Updated October 2026 · reviewed for today In short Reddit makes money mainly by selling ads in the feeds, conversation threads and search results of its communities (subreddits). In fiscal 2025 advertising brought in $2.06 billion of $2.20 billion revenue; the rest, called other revenue, came mostly from content licensing, which gives partners such as
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Updated October 2026 · reviewed for today In short Wikipedia makes almost all of its money from reader donations to the Wikimedia Foundation, the nonprofit that hosts it, plus a smaller and growing income from Wikimedia Enterprise, a paid API for companies that reuse its content at high volume. In fiscal 2024-25 (year ended 30
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Updated October 2026 · reviewed for today In short Uber makes money by taking a cut of each ride, delivery and freight load booked through its apps. In 2025 customers booked $193.5 billion of trips and orders (gross bookings), and Uber kept $52.0 billion as revenue: Mobility $29.7 billion, Delivery $17.2 billion and Freight $5.1
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Updated October 2026 · reviewed for today In short Transference is the unconscious shift of feelings, expectations and ways of relating from an important earlier relationship, often a parent, onto someone in the present. The term, in its psychoanalytic sense, first appeared in Sigmund Freud‘s Studies on Hysteria (1895), and Freud came to treat it
Updated October 2026 · reviewed for today In short Micromarketing tailors products, prices and messages to a small group, such as the shoppers of one store, one neighbourhood or even one household, instead of running a single plan for the mass market. Marketing researchers in the 1990s made it practical with scanner data and household
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Updated October 2026 · reviewed for today In short Market types describe the setting a business competes in. Economists sort markets by structure: how many sellers and buyers there are, how alike the products are and how easy entry is (perfect competition, monopolistic competition, oligopoly, monopoly, and on the buying side monopsony). Startup teacher Steve
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Updated October 2026 · reviewed for today In short Experiential marketing engages people through a branded experience they take part in, such as an event, a pop-up, a sample or an interactive installation, instead of a message they only watch. Marketing scholar Bernd Schmitt set out the idea in 1999, arguing that brands should appeal
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Twilio’s revenue was $5.07 billion in fiscal 2025, up 14% from $4.46 billion, according to its 10-K. Messaging is the largest product group at $2.88 billion, ahead of Voice ($616 million) and Email ($523 million). In its latest release Twilio says third-quarter 2026 revenue was $1.56 billion, up 20% year on year.
Broadcom’s net revenue rose 24% to $63.9 billion in fiscal 2025 (year to 2 November 2025), according to its 10-K. Semiconductor solutions brought in $36.9 billion and Infrastructure software, which includes VMware, $27.0 billion.
Reddit’s revenue rose 69% to $2.20 billion in fiscal 2025 (year to 31 December 2025), its 10-K shows, and advertising brought in $2.06 billion of it. The company swung to a $529.7 million net profit from a $484.3 million loss in 2024.
Intel reported net revenue of $52.9 billion for fiscal 2025 (year to 27 December 2025), according to its 10-K. The Client Computing Group brought in $32.2 billion and Data Center and AI $16.9 billion; Intel Foundry sold $307 million to outside customers.
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