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Amazon.com Inc. (AMZN) is in the Retail Industry
- Revenue
- Dec 31 2007
- $14.8B
- Profit
- Dec 31 2007
- $476.0M
- Market Cap
- Aug 07 2008
- $32.7B
Latest News and Analysis
Data Dump: Tech Industry Statistics by the Numbers
Seth Gilbert submits: From market research firms and trade groups, there are so many projections, forecasts and numbers thrown to the airwaves that it can become really difficult to keep track. To ease the burden, we periodically consolidate the info to one report. We’ve done comparative stats that put numbers...
Which CEOs Have the Best and Worst Approval Ratings?
Kevin Maney submits: Really, I love the kind of information Glassdoor.com is exposing about what's going on inside big companies. Most brilliant of all is that Glassdoor gets employees to rate their own CEOs, which results in CEO approval ratings that are similar to approval ratings of presidents and...
Measuring Music: Top 5 US Retailers
Seth Gilbert submits: Market research firm NPD Group is known for systematically tracking retail sales. Among other things, it periodically reports on gaming and music. This week, the company announced its compiled list of the top five U.S. music retailers for the first half of the year. Assembled from...
Disk Makers buys independent music distributor CD Baby
US CD and DVD manufacturer, Disk Makers, has acquired independent music distributer CD Baby for undisclosed terms. Through the deal, CD Baby - which sells music in physical and downloadable formats - will continue to run as a separate company. ...
Amazon Continues Investments in Cloud-Based Ventures
Dana Gardner submits: Elastra Corp., a cloud computing startup with a focus on ease of deployment, Tuesday announced a second round of funding, including participation from Amazon AMZN, which continues its investment ramp-up in cloud-based ventures.The Series B funding for the San Francisco, Calif.-based Elastra, totals $12 million. Other participants...
Board and Executive Compensation in S&P 500
Richard Shaw QVM Group submits: Executive compensation and board largess with high paid executives is a hot topic recently. That spurred us to look comprehensively at some factual comparative data on the total cost of boards of directors and top executive teams among the S&P 500 companies (proxy SPY...
Indie Music Site CDBaby Gets Sold, Finally
CDBaby, one of the largest online sellers of music for indie bands, has finally been sold, to CD and DVD duplicator Disc Makers. The deal also includes CD Baby's online storefront and Web hosting service, HostBaby. The The Portland, Oregon-based company was launched in 1998, and over the last...
E-Conglomerates: Smart Strategy or Future Problem?
If you wait long enough, not only does history repeat itself in broad brushes and themes, but even through specific crazes. Lately I've been noticing one business fashion, conglomeration, that seems to be returning in a new form: the e-conglomerate. by Erik Sherman
Rackspace IPO Overview
Rackspace Hosting RAX is a hosting provider for websites, web-based IT systems, and computing. All quotations are from the company’s most recent S-1 filing, with links provided. by SA Editor Maribeth Miller
Transformation in Retail Shopping Gains Momentum
Paul Carton ChangeWave Alliance submits: The May consumer spending uptick proved extremely short-lived. So much for that. Despite the major infusion of $150 billion in economic stimulus rebates, consumers are once again pulling back. ChangeWave’s latest survey results point to yet another downtick in U.S. consumer spending...
Amazon.com to Acquire Canadian Used Books Site AbeBooks
Amazon.com (NSDQ: AMZN) has bought Canada-based online used books site AbeBooks. No financial terms were disclosed in the announcement. Interestingly, AbeBooks will continue to function as a stand-alone operation. by Rafat Ali
Amazon.com acquires used book site AbeBooks
Bookseller giant Amazon.com is acquiring Canada-based second-hand book site AbeBooks, which will continue to function as a stand-alone operation. Neither company revealed any financial details. AbeBooks is one of the world's leading second-hand book sites, claiming to have more than...
Abebooks: Another Good Acquisition for Amazon
Michael Arrington submits: Amazon has acquired twelve year old Canadian company Abebooks formerly the Advanced Book Exchange, the companies just announced. Abebooks is an online marketplace for books focusing on used, rare and out of print titles for sale by independent booksellers - it currently has 110 million books...
Will Music Sales Be Profitable for Record Companies in Ten Years?
Markham Lee submits: A few months ago I discussed how the real problem facing the music industry (artists, record companies and traditional music stores) was the changing economics of music sales, much more than their slowness in adopting digital music, lawsuits, etc. The idea is that consumers are actually purchasing...
Know How Many Kindles Amazon Has Sold? 240,000
Erick Schonfeld submits: Ever since Amazon AMZN launched the Kindle last November, we’ve been wondering about just how successful it’s been. The electronic book initially sold out and supplies have been tight. The Kindle is such a small part of Amazon’s overall business that the company does not break...
Amazon Takes On eBay?s PayPal With New Service
Ron Haruni submits: The status of PayPal as the web’s reigning leader of payment and money transfer services via the Internet is simply unarguable. PayPal, as an e-commerce business, charges a fee for payment processing of online vendors, auction sites, and other corporate users. The company which was bought by...
Legg's Miller: No Clear Case For Buying Financials
By Muralikumar Anantharaman BOSTON (Reuters) - Bill Miller, stock picker at U.S. asset manager Legg Mason Inc LM, said on Wednesday financial stocks appear to have hit a "capitulation low" in mid-July but added it was not clear if they should be bought...
Amazon Outsources Its Checkout Cart
Erick Schonfeld submits: Amazon AMZN is outsourcing more of its Web-scale software. Yesterday, it beefed up its payment services with the launch of Checkout by Amazon and Amazon Simple Pay. Other e-commerce sites can basically insert an Amazon Checkout cart on their sites and Amazon’s software will handle...
Activity in Online Payment Services
OnlyEBAY submits: Quite a bit of news around online payment processing in the last few days. In my opinion, the high level of activity and competition in the sector is very healthy and underscores the attractive fundamentals of alternative online payments. So here is what the 'PayPal killers' have been...
NYT CTO: Kindle Version Gaining Some Traction
In addition to delivering news and info via handheld devices, The New York Times (NYSE: NYT) wants to take advantage of attributes CTO Marc Frons says are unique about the mobile space: location awareness and personal networking. Frons, the paper's CTO for digital operations, is answering questions online this...
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- Incorporated: 1994
- CEO: Mr. Jeffrey P. Bezos
Amazon.com is engaged in operating retail websites. Co. sources and sells a range of products worldwide across various product categories, including digital media. Co. serves its consumer customers through www.amazon.com, www.amazon.ca, www.amazon.de, www.amazon.fr, www.amazon.co.jp, www.amazon.co.uk, www.shopbop.com, www.endless.com and the Joyo Amazon websites at www.joyo.cn and www.amazon.cn. Co. also serves seller customers through programs and services designed to enable them to sell products on its websites; and serves developer customers by offering a suite of web services that provide access to Co.'s technology platform for them to build their own applications.
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Amazon.com Inc. Company Info
Board of Directors
Mr. Jeffrey P. Bezos
Chairman
Mr. Tom A. Alberg
Mr. John Seely Brown
Mr. L. John Doerr
Mr. William B. Gordon
Ms. Myrtle S. Potter
Mr. Thomas O. Ryder
Ms. Patricia Q. Stonesifer
Contact Information
1200 12th Avenue South
Suite 1200
Seattle, WA
206 266-1000
NAICS Code
Electronic Shopping: 454111
