Word: amazon
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...names go, Amazon is a perfect choice. (Not least because its ticker symbol, AMZN, is a license-plate version of how the stock has performed.) The wild Amazon River, with its limitless branches, remains an ideal metaphor for a company that now sells everything from power tools to CDs, and is eagerly looking for new areas of expansion. It's possible to argue that Bezos didn't master much more than an evolution of commerce, replacing old-fashioned stores with a centralized sales and shipping center. But even that one change, he notes, grabbing a favorite word, is "huge...
...still losing his pants. That's maybe the one thing people still really don't understand about the e-commerce revolution. If these are such hot businesses, then why are they hemorrhaging cash? Amazon--the company everyone wants to be like--could lose nearly $350 million this year. O.K., the Net is different, but don't profits and losses matter anymore? They do. Bezos insists Amazon's oldest businesses--books, music and video--will be profitable...
...started with a patent. In 1997 Amazon introduced a feature on its web site called 1-Click shopping. The idea was that the site would remember your address and billing information from prior purchases so that you wouldn't have to re-enter them every time you bought something. It was a pretty good idea, good enough that Amazon applied for, and received, a patent on it. MORE...
Right now there are more large-cap companies outside the index than at any other time in history, because of investors' massive reweighting toward technology companies. Among those we consider potential admittees are JDS Uniphase, a $42 billion fiber optics company; online retailing colossus Amazon, with $36 billion in market cap; and Veritas Software, no Microsoft but certainly no slouch, with $28 billion in stock-market value. We wonder whether CMGI ($23 billion) or Internet Capital Group ($28 billion) can be kept out for long. Or how about Broadcom, or just created Red Hat, Sycamore, Juniper and Akamai, all with...
...case, the East-meets-West dynamic that emerges is forced. Anna's character, though played well by a strong and elegant Jodie Foster, is flat. She enters the film a fearless Amazon who shows so little fear that a scene in which she picks up a lantern and scurries to investigate strange howling noises in the dark of the night causes one to laugh at the incongruity of the situation. Her characteristics are anachronistic; the film blunders and attributes to Anna the characteristics of a steely Scully-like character instead of a confused widow desperately trying remain brave...