Amazon.com, Inc.
News and overview for Amazon.com, Inc.
Friday's biggest moving stocks - MarketWatch
MarketWatch | 31 days 5 hours 8 minutes ago
Amazon.com Inc.'s stunning third quarter -- with revenue and earnings that blew past Wall Street's estimates -- also contained a surprise with greater-than-expected growth in its core media business in North America.
Health Care Robots: Next Generation Decision-Making Software, Eliminates Manual Systems Labor [Press Release]
PRNewswire | 6 days 18 hours 47 minutes ago
...Labor Cutting costs is key to health care reform. Linnaeus, Inc., a Franklin, Tennessee-based software company, has won...staff" is as easy as adding more items to a shopping cart on Amazon.com - no hiring, no training, and no overhead. Each new thread...
ClearLite CFLs Are Now Selling on Amazon.com [Press Release]
Business Wire | 40 days 4 hours 4 minutes ago
Clear-Lite Holdings, Inc., (“ClearLite”) (OTCBB: CLRH), a leading innovator of eco-friendly lighting and the appreciably safer ArmorLite™ A Safer CFL™, announced that its Full Spectrum Compact Fluorescent Lights (CFLs), which help give the kind of bright, natural light that many people want, can now be bought on Amazon.com, the world’s largest online retailer.
MarketWatch's top stories of the week, Oct. 19-23 - MarketWatch
MarketWatch | 30 days 19 hours 54 minutes ago
Friday, a lot of the decline was attributed to a drop in oil and other commodities, which was triggered by a rise in the dollar. Stocks in the energy, materials and industrials sectors led the way lower.
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MarketWire | 10 days 20 hours 4 minutes ago
SAN DIEGO, CA -- (Marketwire) -- 11/12/09 -- ubroadcast, inc. (OTCBB: UBCI), a leader in Internet Broadcasting, today announced that it will provide exclusive Internet broadcast coverage on
Soaring Amazon and Microsoft boost tech sector - MarketWatch
MarketWatch | 31 days 2 hours 42 minutes ago
The Morgan Stanley High Tech 35 Index /quotes/comstock/10t!msh.x (MSH 547.81, +3.72, +0.68%) also was up 1%.
Barnes & Noble debuts Nook e-reader device - MarketWatch
MarketWatch | 31 days 19 hours 42 minutes ago
The News Hub panel discusses Nook, Barnes & Noble e-reader, which premieres Oct. 20, as well as the planned launch for Plastic Logic's Que.
Amazon surges on fourth-quarter outlook, results - MarketWatch
MarketWatch | 31 days 3 hours 48 minutes ago
The stock was lately trading at $107.34 in the pre-market. It's nearly doubled since the start of the year.
Amazon earnings surge, beating forecasts - MarketWatch
MarketWatch | 31 days 20 hours 35 minutes ago
The online retail giant's shares jumped 8% in after-hours trading following the report, after the company issued a better-than-expected forecast for the fourth quarter. The stock has nearly doubled since the start of the year, and has risen about 8% since the last earnings report.
Amazon earnings jump in third quarter - MarketWatch
MarketWatch | 31 days 20 hours 53 minutes ago
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E-books are a hot topic at Frankfurt Book Fair - MarketWatch
MarketWatch | 38 days 23 hours 4 minutes ago
E-books -- whether read on an iPhone, a Kindle or a laptop -- are a hot topic at this week's Frankfurt Book Fair.
Amazon blows the doors off third quarter MarketWatch First Take - MarketWatch
MarketWatch | 31 days 19 hours 42 minutes ago
In the prior second quarter, the Seattle-based online retailing giant had reported flat media sales in North America, which had raised concerns among some investors that the company's growth story had "hit a wall."
Best Buy, Sonic team up on digital movie delivery - MarketWatch
MarketWatch | 20 days 36 minutes ago
Stanley Works and Black & Decker, two of the nation's biggest tool makers, announce they are joining forces in a $4.5 billion all-stock deal, and the timing is impeccable
Techs edge lower as Amazon.com shares fall - MarketWatch
MarketWatch | 39 days 2 hours 57 minutes ago
But the tech-heavy benchmark was still up more than 1% for the week, after Intel Corp.'s results triggered a wave of optimism in the entire sector as the earnings season kicks off.
EBay shares slide on profit drop - MarketWatch
MarketWatch | 32 days 4 hours 6 minutes ago
"The fundamentals look pretty good on the quarter; it's the [fourth-quarter] guidance that looks a little light," said Aaron Kessler of Kaufman Bros. after results were released late Thursday.
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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 |