If nothing helps, do that Apple is doing

On February 10, 2016, the Board of Directors authorized the Company to repurchase up to $5 billion of the Company's common stock. The program allows the Company to repurchase its shares opportunistically from time to time when it believes that doing so would enhance long-term shareholder value. The repurchase authorization does not have a fixed expiration. Purchases may be effected through one or more open market transactions, privately negotiated transactions, transactions structured through investment banking institutions, or a combination of the foregoing. This stock repurchase authorization replaces the previous $2 billion stock repurchase authorization, approved by the Board of Directors in 2010.

German labour union Verdi has announced Amazon Germany's employees will go on strike during the Christmas holiday

The company reported net revenue of $25.4 billion and net income of $79 million, or $0.17 a share. That means revenue grew 24 percent compared with the same period last year, while income swung positive from a net loss of $437 million, or $0.95 a share, in the year-ago quarter. AWS reported $2.1 billion in revenue and $521 million in profit. That's a 78 percent rise in revenue and 432 percent rise in profit over last year. Overall, AWS now accounts for around 8 percent of Amazon's total revenue, but nearly half of its total profits, which puts it close to matching the performance of its entire North American e-commerce division.

This is why this guys love clouds :-)

Management tried to respond, but fucked up

https://medium.com/@jaycarney/what-the-new-york-times-didn-t-tell-you-a1128aa78931

As the story noted, our reporters spoke to more than a hundred current and former employees, at various levels and divisions, over many months. Many, including most of those you cited, talked about how they admired Amazon’s ambitions and urgency even as they described aspects of the workplace as troubling.

https://medium.com/@NYTimesComm/dean-baquet-responds-to-jay-carney-s-medium-post-6af794c7a7c6

Revenue from e-books leveled off in 2013 at $3 billion after increasing nearly 50 percent in 2012, according to BookStats. But Kindle Unlimited is making the glut worse, some writers say.

The program has the same all-you-can-eat business model as Spotify in music, Netflix in video and the book start-ups Oyster and Scribd. Consumers feast on these services, which can offer new artists a wider audience than they ever could have found before the digital era.

Some established artists, however, see fewer rewards. Taylor Swift pulled her music off Spotify this fall, saying it was devaluing her art and costing her money. “Valuable things should be paid for,” she explained.

Holly Ward, who writes romances under the name H.M. Ward, has much the same complaint about Kindle Unlimited. After two months in the program, she said, her income dropped 75 percent. “I couldn’t wait and watch things plummet further,” she said on a Kindle discussion board.

http://www.nytimes.com/2014/12/28/technology/amazon-offers-all-you-can-eat-books-authors-turn-up-noses.html

" Amazon is just the tool." The tool to transfer money out of their country?

Want to grow the revenue of your start up company? So easy: Just ask people for a 10$ bill for giving them back a 20$ bill. Sure, that's not profitable, but you'll find plenty of new "customers", and your revenue will skyrocket.

Such kind of "growth" fooled investors during the "new economy" bubble 14 years ago, and it still seems to work pretty well for Amazon and a few other companies. But one day investors will want to see profits, and that's then be the beginning of the end of companies like Amazon.

For the third quarter, Amazon posted a net loss of $437 million, more than 10 times wider than the $41 million loss from a year ago.

Huge losses will continue in the fourth quarter, Amazon said. The company projected losses as high as $570 million for the fourth quarter, and revenue of $27.3 billion to $30.3 billion.

That graph is kinda nuts!

ya'll are missing the juiciest -

http://www.huffingtonpost.com/norman-solomon/under-amazons-cia-cloud-t_b_4467265.html

Amazon.com Inc later this year plans to launch a marketplace for local services, a broad term that encompasses anything from babysitters to handymen to birthday clowns, beginning with a single market, several people familiar with the matter said.

http://www.reuters.com/article/2014/06/10/us-amazon-com-services-idUSKBN0EL20S20140610?feedType=RSS&feedName=businessNews