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Amazon.com Unveils the 2009 Holiday Toy List [Press Release]
Business Wire | 26 days 23 hours 3 minutes ago
Amazon.com, Inc. (NASDAQ:AMZN) today revealed the Holiday Toy List (www.amazon.com/holidaytoylist), where customers can find this season’s hottest toys, video games, sporting goods, electronics, movies and more. The Holiday Toy List features innovative search tools that allow customers to quickly narrow and expand search results simultaneously by “bestselling” or “average customer review,” then filter by age, gender, category, price and discount.


Susan Boyle s I Dreamed a Dream is Amazon.com Music s Largest CD Pre-Order [Press Release]
Business Wire | 32 days 23 hours 3 minutes ago
Amazon.com, Inc. (NASDAQ: AMZN) today announced that Susan Boyle’s upcoming album, “I Dreamed a Dream,” has become the largest CD pre-order in the history of the Amazon.com Music Store. The album, “I Dreamed a Dream,” will be released from Sony Music Entertainment on Nov. 23. Boyle became a reality show and Internet star after her April 11, 2009, appearance on the television show “Britain’s Got Talent,” where she sang “I Dreamed a Dream” from “Les Misérables.”


Fresh Harvest Products, Inc. Announces Strategic Partnership With Pharma Health Naturals, Inc. [Press Release]
MarketWire | 6 days 13 hours ago
NEW YORK, NY -- (Marketwire) -- 11/16/09 -- Fresh Harvest Products, Inc. (OTCBB: FRHV) and Pharma Health Naturals, Inc. today announced a strategic partnership designed to mutually benefit both companies by better serving their customers, distributors and retailers. The major components in this agreement consist of increasing distribution of both companies' products. Fresh Harvest will be focusing on retailers and distributors and Pharma Health will be focusing on online sales, through thei...


Video: Livescribe's Pulse Smartpen Gets Smarter with the Beta Launch of an Application Store [Press Release]
PRNewswire | 4 days 1 hour 2 minutes ago
...Nov. 19 /PRNewswire/ -- Livescribe Inc. (www.livescribe.com) announced...purchase at Best Buy, Staples, Target, Amazon.com, select Apple stores and Apple.com and...photodesk@prnewswire.com Livescribe Inc. CONTACT: Jody Farrar, A&R Edelman...


Jeffery Deaver, Lisa Scottoline and Lee Child Contribute to New Thriller Exclusively for Audio [Press Release]
Business Wire | 25 days 5 hours 3 minutes ago
Audible Inc., a leading provider of premium digital audio and an Amazon.com Inc. subsidiary (NASDAQ:AMZN), today announced the launch of “The Copper Bracelet,” a new thriller created exclusively for digital audio. A collaboration of 16 leading thriller writers, including Jeffery Deaver, Lee Child, Lisa Scottoline and Joseph Finder, “The Copper Bracelet” is the sequel to “The Chopin Manuscript,” which was honored by the Audio Publishers Association as its 2007 Audiobook of the Year. The audio ...


Salesforce.com Sets the Agenda for the Next Decade of CRM Success with Sales Cloud 2 and Service Cloud 2 [Press Release]
PRNewswire | 4 days 13 hours 8 minutes ago
SAN FRANCISCO, Nov. 18 /PRNewswire-FirstCall/ -- Salesforce.com Dreamforce Conference -- Salesforce.com


Amazon's Kindle faces tougher market this season - MarketWatch
MarketWatch | 30 days 15 hours 25 minutes ago
Amazon /quotes/comstock/15*!amzn (AMZN 118.49, +25.04, +26.80%) surprised many on Thursday when it disclosed that the Kindle is now the most popular product on its heavily trafficked Web site.


Amazon.com, AmEx, Broadcom on late-trading radar - MarketWatch
MarketWatch | 31 days 18 hours 14 minutes ago
Brooks McFeeley of MidnightTrader.com points out stocks that investors should keep an eye on in late trading, including Amazon.com, Microsoft and Symantec. Carla Mozee reports.


Publishers Choose Print-on-Demand Technology from CreateSpace and Amazon Europe to Make Books Available to Customers Internationally [Press Release]
Business Wire | 40 days 2 hours 3 minutes ago
CreateSpace, part of the Amazon.com group of companies, today announced agreements with several international publishers who are using print-on-demand technology to distribute content in the U.S. market on www.amazon.com and other channels. More than 100 international publishers are now participating in the program, including Rayo, a Spanish-language imprint of HarperCollins (United States); Cengage LATAM (Mexico); Publidisa (Spain); Taylor & Francis and Oxford University Press (U.K.); New Ho...


Supercomputer makers must deal with power issue Therese Poletti's Tech Tales - MarketWatch
MarketWatch | 6 days 5 hours 31 minutes ago
IBM s Roadrunner supercomputer, the second fastest in the world.


Master Marco Sies - The Master Method: 4 Steps to Success, Prosperity and Inner Peace [Press Release]
PRNewswire | 3 days 14 hours 42 minutes ago
...the author, can be purchased online for $24.95 at www.amazon.com Master Marcos Sies is a seven-time kickboxing world champion...October 2009 CONTACT: Kate Russell, RMR & Associates, Inc., +1-301-230-0045 x190,Krussell@rmr.com


Engine Yard Announces Momentum of JRuby [Press Release]
PRNewswire | 4 days 16 hours 3 minutes ago
SAN FRANCISCO, Nov. 18 /PRNewswire/ -- Engine Yard, the leader in Ruby on Rails automation and management technologies, today announced that JRuby is being chosen by organizations in a broad range of industries, such as astronomical research facilities, airport fueling systems, and open source project collaboration platforms.


Supercomputer makers must deal with power Therese Poletti's Tech Tales - MarketWatch
MarketWatch | 5 days 11 hours 35 minutes ago
IBM s Roadrunner supercomputer, the second fastest in the world.


MasterCard Launches MasterCard Priceless Gift Finder To Help Online Shoppers Find the Perfect Gift this Holiday Season [Press Release]
Business Wire | 6 days 23 hours 3 minutes ago
MasterCard Worldwide today announced the launch of the MasterCard Priceless Gift Finder (www.priceless.com/giftfinder), a new online tool designed to drive e-commerce by helping online shoppers find the perfect gift this holiday season. Using the MasterCard Priceless Gift Finder, online shoppers can choose the price range they want to spend and the personality of their gift recipient. The Gift Finder then displays appropriate gift selections, along with ratings and reviews from Amazon.com. Pu...


Google files revised settlement in Books case - MarketWatch
MarketWatch | 7 days 17 hours 27 minutes ago
The new agreement was swiftly criticized by the Open Book Alliance, a group of librarians, legal scholars, authors, publishers and other technology companies.





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Company Overview


Company: Amazon.com, Inc.
Industry: Music, Video, Book & Entertainment Retail
Website: http://www.amazon.com

What started as Earth's biggest bookstore has rapidly become Earth's biggest anything store. Expansion has propelled Amazon.com in innumerable directions. Its main Web site offers millions of books, music, and movies (which still account for most of its sales), not to mention auto parts, toys, electronics, home furnishings, apparel, health and beauty aids, prescription drugs, and groceries. Also, shoppers can download books, games, MP3s, and films to their computers or handheld devices, including Amazon's own portable reader, the Kindle. Amazon also offers services and products, such as self-publishing, online advertising, a Web store platform, and a co-branded credit card. Amazon acquired Zappos.com in 2009.


Key Numbers

Sales in U.S. Dollars (mil.) 19,166 (2008)
One-year % Growth in Sales 29.2 (2008)
Net Income in U.S. Dollars (mil.) 645 (2008)
One-year % Growth in Net Income 35.5 (2008)
Number of Employees 20,700 (2008)
One-year % Growth in Number of Employees 21.8 (2008)
Fiscal Year-End December