Amazon.com Inc topped its own previous record on lobbying in the first quarter as it came closer to winning a controversial US$10bil (RM41.31bil) Pentagon cloud contract and outspent Alphabet Inc’s Google for the first time in more than a decade.
The retail giant, which has rapidly expanded its Washington influence operation in recent years but lagged behind Google in total outlays, spent US$3.9mil in (RM16.11mil) the first three months of 2019, up from US$3.4mil (RM14.04mil) a year earlier, according to disclosures filed with Congress in advance of Monday’s deadline.