Amazon spent nearly $23 billion on R&D last year — more than any other U.S. company
Pouring resources in to Alexa, AWS and experiments like Amazon Go, Amazon invested nearly $23bn on R&D last year, nearly 1/3 of the total spend of the top 5 (next come Alphabet, Intel, Microsoft, and Apple).
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Tech companies claimed the top five spots again this year.