Battery-powered planes offer a way to reduce fuel costs, typically among the biggest expense for airlines and proportionally more so for short-distance carriers like EasyJet.

Increasingly, companies have turned to customer data platforms (CDPs) to help them run more relevant marketing campaigns using the large volume of customer data at their fingertips.

In the span of about an hour on Wednesday morning Amazon went on a hardware rampage, unleashing four new Alexa-powered smart gadgets and a handful of new accessories .