Amazon posts strongest-ever holiday season
305919
Shares of online retailer Amazon.com  Inc rose more than 2 percent on Wednesday after the company  said the 2007 holiday season was its strongest to date.
341690
Internet retailer announces its best holiday season; electronics were the key.
319676
NEW YORK (CBS.MW) -- Positive reports issued Monday by two retailing bellwethers -- Wal-Mart Stores Inc. and Amazon.com Inc. -- gave some hope that holiday-related selling may have picked up ahead of Christmas.
56065
Online retailer Amazon had its best holiday shopping season ever, selling 2.8 million items on its busiest day. Sales of consumer electronics goods -- led by Apple&#39;s iPod -- surpassed books for the first time, the retailer says.
706706
Online retailer Amazon.com says it set a one-day selling record this year and logged its busiest holiday shopping season in its 10 years.
65340
Amazon.com Inc. said Thursday its fourth-quarter earnings fell 51 percent from a year ago in the all-important holiday season, hurt by higher tax-related charges. The Internet retailer's results were just ahead of Wall Street's expectations.
353268
Shares of online retailer Amazon.com Inc rose more than 2 percent on Wednesday after the company said the 2007 holiday season was its strongest to date.
594728
E-tailers have laggards and penny-pinchers to thank for last week&#39;s brisk sales, which grew 25 percent over the comparable period last year, according to comScore.Procrastinators and deal-seekers helped create a &quot;flurry&quot; of online spending last week in the U.S., keeping retail e-sales strong, comScore said Sunday.Between Nov. 1 and Dec. 21 -- the first 51 days of the holiday season -- U.S. shoppers have spent $26.3 billion online, up 19 percent compared with the corresponding period last year.So far, the heaviest online shopping day this season was Dec. 10, the so-called &quot;Green Monday,&quot; a term coined by eBay for the second Monday in December, which the vendor has identified as particularly heavy e-sales day. U.S. shoppers spent $881 million that day, up 33 percent from the corresponding day in 2006.By contrast, Cyber Monday, the first workday after the Thanksgiving holiday in the U.S., ranks as this holiday season&#39;s ninth heaviest online shopping day, with $733 million in sales. Cyber Monday is considered the day when holiday online shopping kicks into high gear.Overall, comScore expects this year&#39;s holiday season to generate about $29.5 billion in online spending, which would represent a 20 percent increase from the same period in 2006.
601834
Amazon.com apparently has greater sales in electronics than books for the very first time.
468314
By Kim Peterson, The Seattle Times  Sep. 13--SAN FRANCISCO -- Apple Computer, Amazon.com and Microsoft are  preparing for a significant retail battle this holiday season, offering  digital music and video for three different systems engaged in unprecedented  competition.
189896
Amazon.com Inc. has taken more than a million pre-orders for the final "Harry Potter" book due out in July, but the world's largest Web retailer won't make a profit, Chief Executive Jeff Bezos told shareholders at the company's annual meeting Thursday.
425852
NEW YORK - Online retailer Amazon.com Inc. on Monday said it set a one-day selling record this year and logged its busiest holiday shopping season in its 10 years.
54694
If you&#39;ve been eyeing Amazon.com (AMZN), you may wonder what got into the online heavyweight over the holidays. Shares shot up 8.5%, or $3.32, on the first trading day after Christmas, as Amazon said it logged a record 2.8 million orders in a single day.
452039
Amazon.com\\'s sales surged during the holiday season, and profits climbed, too, mainly because of a tax break. But the online retailer\\'s profit fell a few pennies a share short of Wall Street\\'s expectations for a third-consecutive quarter, and investors drove its shares down  in after-hours trading.
574497
DECEMBER 27, 2004 (REUTERS) - Online retailer Amazon.com Inc. today said it set a one-day selling record and logged its busiest holiday shopping season in its 10 years.
257223
Shares of Amazon.com Inc. rose nearly 9 percent Monday after the online retailer said it recorded its best holiday season ever.
308966
Online retailer declares ''best ever'' holiday season, offers snapshot of season's sales activity.