Amazon is officially about to be worth more than Microsoft. Amazon's market value soared above $685 billion recently eclipsing Microsoft, for the first time ever. Microsoft's market value currently stands at $684 billion.

Amazon is getting into Healthcare, it's also taking on FedEx and UPS directly now, in logistics as we know it would.

Amazon is launching a package-delivery service to compete with FedEx and UPS

Laura Stevens broke the story, that Amazon will now launch a package-delivery service called Shipping with Amazon.

This means a logistics battle with a fairly likely ending, and a direct competition with the likes of UPS and FedEx, and has been a long time coming.

The initial pilot will start in L.A., and gradually spread to more U.S. cities.

By offering shipping services to basically any other business, Amazon can undercut both UPS and FedEx on rates, whereby Amazon can offer more to its third-party merchants working on its E-commerce platform.

Amazon is not a tech or E-commerce company. It's in the business of consumer fulfillment in 2018. Healthcare, logistics, entertainment and voice-activated software with Alexa, Amazon is building fulfillment in a new way.

Amazon already has its own fleet of cargo jets, warehouses and it makes little sense for it to depend on others. Rumors that it would take on Healthcare or Logistics like FedEx and UPS have been ongoing for years.

As for valuations, JP Morgan believes Amazon will hits a 1$ trillion valuation fairly soon. It's really only behind Apple (AAPL), which has a market cap of about $815 billion, and Google owner Alphabet (GOOGL), valued at $750 billion. With stocks tumbling, 2018 is setting itself up to be quite eventful one for tech stocks.

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