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Amazon Posts $21.27 Billion in 2012 Q4 Revenues

Posted January 30, 2013 11:46 AM

From Engadget:

It's still the same old story, really. Amazon pulls in revenues equal to a small nation's GDP and makes a small profit for itself in the process. In this case, particularly small. Jeff Bezos' little company that could has posted fourth-quarter turnover of $21.27 billion, a 22 percent increase, but a net profit of $97 million that's down 45 percent from a year earlier.

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Re: Amazon Posts $21.27 Billion in 2012 Q4 Revenues

01/30/2013 11:57 AM

There is no truth in the rumour that it uses the same tax avoidance mechanism as Starbucks.

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