Amazon spent nearly $23 billion on R&D last year — more than any other US company

Amazon was at the top of the list, spending $22.6 billion in 2017, 41 percent more than in 2016 (when it also topped the list). Amazon has poured resources into AWS, Alexa … Amazon is followed in R&D spending by Alphabet, Intel, Microsoft and Apple. Facebook rose from 13th place in 2016 to ninth in … …