This Week in Amazon: See you in court edition
It’s a clash of the titans, the classic not the remake, as Amazon plans to take its HQ2 neighbor, the Department of Defense, to court over the massive cloud computing contract it lost out on in October. Here are some other highlights for the company whose founder, Jeff Bezos, appears to prefer fellow billionaire Michael Bloomberg for president over another billionaire in the race, Tom Steyer. AMZN stock price at Monday’s open: $1,753.25 Change since the start of November: Up $14.95 Translation: Most of the week’s gain for Amazon’s share price came Monday after news broke Friday that the company filed a sealed protest of the $10 billion JEDI Pentagon contract, which was awarded to bitter rival Microsoft Corp. (NASDAQ: MSFT).
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