Amazon.com, Inc.

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Sony e-reader may miss Christmas: WSJ - MarketWatch
MarketWatch | 5 days 4 hours ago
Sony e-reader may miss Christmas: WSJ


Amazon Launches Same Day Delivery in Seven Major Cities and Expands Saturday Delivery Options [Press Release]
Business Wire | 39 days 15 hours 42 minutes ago
Amazon.com, Inc. (NASDAQ:AMZN) today announced the launch of “Local Express Delivery,” a new shipping option giving customers same-day delivery in seven major cities including New York, Philadelphia, Boston, Baltimore, Las Vegas, Seattle and Washington D.C. The service will be extended to Chicago, Indianapolis and Phoenix in the coming months.


Susan Boyle s I Dreamed a Dream is Amazon.com Music s Largest CD Pre-Order [Press Release]
Business Wire | 33 days 15 hours 42 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.”


Amazon.com Unveils the 2009 Holiday Toy List [Press Release]
Business Wire | 27 days 15 hours 42 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.


Fresh Harvest Products, Inc. Announces Strategic Partnership With Pharma Health Naturals, Inc. [Press Release]
MarketWire | 7 days 5 hours 39 minutes 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 17 hours 41 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 21 hours 42 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 | 5 days 5 hours 47 minutes ago
SAN FRANCISCO, Nov. 18 /PRNewswire-FirstCall/ -- Salesforce.com Dreamforce Conference -- Salesforce.com


Amazon's Kindle faces tougher market this season - MarketWatch
MarketWatch | 31 days 8 hours 4 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 | 32 days 10 hours 53 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 18 hours 42 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...


Autodesk Collaborates With DreamWorks and Imageworks on Mudbox for Linux [Press Release]
Business Wire | 5 days 15 hours 12 minutes ago
Autodesk, Inc. (NASDAQ:ADSK) has announced that DreamWorks Animation SKG, Inc. (NASDAQ:DWA) and Sony Pictures Imageworks are integrating Autodesk Mudbox software into their Linux-based production pipelines. Autodesk Consulting’s custom development team worked collaboratively with teams at Imageworks and DreamWorks to port the digital sculpting and texture painting software to the Linux platform. Mudbox for Linux is available through Autodesk Consulting services.


Supercomputer makers must deal with power issue Therese Poletti's Tech Tales - MarketWatch
MarketWatch | 6 days 22 hours 10 minutes ago
IBM s Roadrunner supercomputer, the second fastest in the world.


Engine Yard Announces Momentum of JRuby [Press Release]
PRNewswire | 5 days 8 hours 42 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.


Master Marco Sies - The Master Method: 4 Steps to Success, Prosperity and Inner Peace [Press Release]
PRNewswire | 4 days 7 hours 21 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





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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