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title: "Digits: Bill Gates, Prime Day, and more"
description: "Plus: Comic book jazz and Chromebook blues."
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# [Digits: Bill Gates, Prime Day, and more](https://hs-sbup.thehustle.co/news/07182022-digits)

 Written by [Jacob Cohen](https://hs-sbup.thehustle.co/news/author/jacob-cohen) | Jul 18, 2022 6:16:56 AM

**1) **Bill Gates will be upping his charitable contributions to the Bill and Melinda Gates Foundation by 50%, from ~$6B pre-covid [**to ~$9B annually by 2026**](https://arstechnica.com/tech-policy/2022/07/bill-gates-says-giving-away-all-his-wealth-wont-solve-much-but-worth-it/). “I will move down and eventually off of the list of the world’s richest people,” Gates wrote.

**2) **Worldwide, Prime Day shoppers ordered [**100k+ items per minute**](https://www.businesswire.com/news/home/20220714005486/en/Prime-Day-2022-was-the-Biggest-Prime-Day-Event-Ever/?feedref=JjAwJuNHiystnCoBq_hl-SixzGpg-aPrNklZ4nvkcE4TY94BwQxjampCy0ugQmZbnkvYMqDDYxFrLs-oQ2BHQ7kDp4j-UYr-rLmtoDZ1CF2l-zLD7VpQW7TsV5JG-qqZpx2R24ilqM8utqYjuRFA-g==) during Amazon’s annual soirée last week. The most popular shopping time was from 9 am to 10 am PT on Tuesday, July 12.

**3) **TikTok is the search engine of choice for [**~40% of youngsters**](https://techcrunch.com/2022/07/12/google-exec-suggests-instagram-and-tiktok-are-eating-into-googles-core-products-search-and-maps/), according to Google exec Prabhakar Raghavan. “When they’re looking for a place for lunch… they go to TikTok or Instagram,” he said.

**4) **In 2021, North American [**comic book sales hit $2.1B**](https://www.comichron.com/yearlycomicssales/industrywide/2021-industrywide.html), up 62% from $1.28B in 2020. Impressively, sales made through comic stores were up 60% from 2020 and 34% from 2019.

**5) **Last year saw 82.4m PCs shipped in Q2 2021. But this year, with work-from-home demand subsiding, [**72m PCs were shipped in Q2**](https://www.wsj.com/articles/pc-shipments-suffer-steepest-decline-in-years-11657583489). Chromebooks, in particular, dipped 50%.

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