2003: 5 Things You Need To Know, Today, on Friday 31st July 2020

The coronavirus crisis might be causing widespread economic upheaval around the world, but the world's biggest tech firms are thriving. Amazon sales soared 40% to $88.9bn (£67.9bn) in the three months ending June, whilst their quarterly profit rose to $5.2bn (£4bn) the biggest since the company's start in 1994 and double the $2.6bn it earned for the same period in 2019.