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It has over 300 million active customer accounts globally. [35] Amazon saw large growth during the COVID-19 pandemic, hiring more than 100,000 staff in the United States and Canada. [36] Some Amazon workers in the US, France, and Italy protested the company's decision to "run normal shifts" due to COVID-19's ease of spread in warehouses.
The remaining 42% of Amazon's operating profits in 2024—$28.8 billion over the 12 months—come from Amazon's non-AWS business. ... Looking at Amazon's revenue growth from seller fees over time ...
For the three months that ended on Sept. 30, the company said it earned $143.1 billion in revenue, a 13% increase compared to the same period last year. Amazon made $9.9 billion in profits ...
Overall, Amazon's revenue grew 10% year over year in the fourth quarter to more than $187 billion, in line with analyst expectations, and likely marking the first time the company has surpassed ...
Amazon Web Services made up 59% of Amazon's profit in 2020, [22] and more than half of the company's profit every year since 2014. [23] After Amazon Elastic Compute Cloud (EC2) was released in 2006, Google developed Google App Engine (now Google Cloud Platform ) and Microsoft developed Windows Azure (now Microsoft Azure ).
AWS operating income grew 50% year over year to $10.4 billion. Meanwhile, revenue in the unit rose 19% from the same period a year earlier to $27.5 billion, in line with analyst expectations.
The Department of Justice files suit against Apple Inc and five major publishing houses (the "Big Five"), alleging that they colluded in 2010 to raise the price of ebooks (using the agency pricing model that gives publishers full control over ebook prices). [124] Amazon had originally set the price of ebooks at $9.99 (using the wholesale ...
The funds gained from the IPO allowed Amazon to grow quickly, making its first three acquisitions on April 27, 1998, less than a year after the company had gone public. [2] After the dot-com bubble burst on March 11, 2000, several companies that Amazon had invested in went bankrupt, with Amazon's stock price itself sinking to record lows. [3]