SEATTLE--(BUSINESS WIRE)-- Amazon.com, Inc. (NASDAQ: AMZN) today announced financial results for its third quarter ended September 30, 2023. Net sales increased 13% to $143.1 billion in the third quarter, compared with $127.1 billion in third quarter 2022. Excluding the $1.4 billion favorable impact from year-over-year changes in foreign exchange rates throughout the quarter, net sales increased 11% compared with third quarter 2022. North America segment sales increased 11% year-over-year to $87.9 billion. International segment sales increased 16% year-over-year to $32.1 billion, or increased 11% excluding changes in foreign exchange rates. AWS segment sales increased 12% year-over-year to $23.1 billion. Operating income increased to $11.2 billion in the third quarter, compared with $2.5
Amazon, Booking.com, Expedia Group, Glassdoor, Tripadvisor, and Trustpilot Launch First Global Co...
SEATTLE—OCTOBER 17, 2023—(NASDAQ: AMZN)—Today, Amazon, Booking.com, Expedia Group, Glassdoor, Tripadvisor, and Trustpilot announced they have teamed up to launch the global Coalition for Trusted Reviews, a cross-industry collaboration committed to protecting access to trustworthy consumer reviews worldwide. Together, members will define best practices for hosting online reviews and sharing methods of fake review detection, aiming to stop fake reviews at the source. Companies met in October 2022 in San Francisco at the first ever Fake Reviews Conference, organized by Tripadvisor. Attendees heard from experts in government, academia and the industry at large on common challenges and potential mitigation approaches related to the issue of fake reviews. This resulted in the establishment
Amazon adds academic and career coaching to employee benefits
Share Facebook Google+ LinkedIn Twitter RSS Feeds Email Page Close New partnerships with Beyond 12 and Kaplan will provide employees career coaching, college advising, and specialized career services. SEATTLE--(BUSINESS WIRE)--Aug. 2, 2022-- Amazon is partnering with education organizations Beyond 12 and Kaplan to bring even more features to the Career Choice program—one of Amazon’s nine skills training programs. Career Choice already offers pre-paid college tuition to its more than 750,000 hourly employees. With these new partnerships, employees will have access to career coaching, college advising, and specialized career services free of cost. Through the expanded benefits program, employees will receive virtual one-on-one coaching to help them identify the academic programs that best f
Share Facebook Google+ LinkedIn Twitter RSS Feeds Email Page Close Amazon’s annual seller conference to take place in Seattle and virtually September 14-15, 2022 Accelerate 2022 will feature headline speakers Doug Herrington and Venus Williams The conference will offer a personalized event experience designed to help accelerate the selling journey SEATTLE--(BUSINESS WIRE)--Jul. 20, 2022-- Amazon (NASDAQ: AMZN) today announced that registration has opened for its annual seller conference, Amazon Accelerate. Accelerate 2022 promises Amazon’s largest seller announcements of the year, a fireside chat with Doug Herrington, Amazon’s new CEO of Worldwide Amazon Stores, and special guest speaker Venus Williams, legendary tennis champion, successful entrepreneur, and small business advocate. Amazo
Amazon Targets Fake Review Fraudsters on Social Media
Share Facebook Google+ LinkedIn Twitter RSS Feeds Email Page Close Amazon files lawsuit against fake review brokers across more than 10,000 groups on Facebook SEATTLE--(BUSINESS WIRE)--Jul. 19, 2022-- Amazon (NASDAQ: AMZN) today filed legal action against the administrators of more than 10,000 Facebook groups that attempt to orchestrate fake reviews on Amazon in exchange for money or free products. These groups are set up to recruit individuals willing to post incentivized and misleading reviews on Amazon’s stores in the U.S., the UK, Germany, France, Italy, Spain, and Japan. Amazon will use information discovered in this legal action to identify bad actors and remove fake reviews commissioned by these fraudsters that haven’t already been detected by Amazon’s advanced technology, expert
Amazon.com to Webcast Second Quarter 2022 Financial Results Conference Call
Share Facebook Google+ LinkedIn Twitter RSS Feeds Email Page Close SEATTLE--(BUSINESS WIRE)--Jul. 14, 2022-- Amazon.com, Inc. (NASDAQ: AMZN) announced today that it will hold a conference call to discuss its second quarter 2022 financial results on Thursday, July 28, 2022, at 2:30 p.m. PT/5:30 p.m. ET. The event will be webcast live, and the audio and associated slides will be available for at least three months thereafter at www.amazon.com/ir. View source version on businesswire.com: https://www.businesswire.com/news/home/20220714005812/en/ Amazon.com Public Relations amazon-pr@amazon.com amazon.com/pr Source: Amazon.com
Share Facebook Google+ LinkedIn Twitter RSS Feeds Email Page Close Global airline uses AWS to deliver new digital travel services, streamline processes, enhance customer service, and provide cloud training to employees globally SEATTLE--(BUSINESS WIRE)--Jul. 12, 2022-- Amazon Web Services, Inc. (AWS), an Amazon.com, Inc. company (NASDAQ: AMZN), is part of the latest acceleration in Delta Air Lines’ digital business transformation with the announcement of a multi-year agreement to serve as the airline’s preferred cloud provider. AWS will help Delta unlock technologies and streamline processes that will make the customer experience faster, smoother, and more secure—from the booking process to the flight experience. “Continuous innovation is at the core of Delta’s commitment to its custome
Over 25,000 Employees Joined Amazon Career Choice in the Last 6 Months
Share Facebook Google+ LinkedIn Twitter RSS Feeds Email Page Close Amazon saw a 45% employee participant increase in the program since 2021 SEATTLE--(BUSINESS WIRE)--Jun. 28, 2022-- "Amazon creates an environment where I can balance work and school," said Catherine Lemonds, an Amazon employee. "I'm so glad they updated the Career Choice program. With the new limitless learning benefit, I'm able to work on completing my bachelor's degree." Catherine is one of more than 25,000 employees who have joined Amazon Career Choice this year, bringing worldwide total participation to more than 80,000 employees since the most recent enhancements were announced in September. Career Choice is designed to help frontline employees grow their skills for career success at Amazon or elsewhere. Laun
Amazon and Cartier File Two Joint Lawsuits Against Counterfeiters Using Social Media to Traffic C...
Share Facebook Google+ LinkedIn Twitter RSS Feeds Email Page Close Bad actors sought to evade Amazon’s detection by listing generic products in Amazon’s store while purposefully promoting counterfeits on social media SEATTLE--(BUSINESS WIRE)--Jun. 15, 2022-- Amazon (NASDAQ: AMZN) and Cartier today announced two joint lawsuits against a social media influencer and eight businesses (collectively, the “defendants”) for advertising, promoting, and facilitating the sale of counterfeit luxury goods through Instagram and other websites, infringing on Cartier’s registered trademarks and violating Amazon’s policies. This press release features multimedia. View the full release here: https://www.businesswire.com/news/home/20220615005687/en/ The lawsuits were filed in the United States District Co
Amazon Fashion Introduces a More Convenient Way to Shop with Virtual Try-On for Shoes
Share Facebook Google+ LinkedIn Twitter RSS Feeds Email Page Close Virtual Try-On for Shoes allows customers to visualize how a pair of shoes will look from every angle, whether they’re in the comfort of their home or on the go Customers can shop thousands of styles with Virtual Try-On for Shoes, including New Balance, adidas, Reebok, and more SEATTLE--(BUSINESS WIRE)--Jun. 9, 2022-- Today, Amazon Fashion announced the launch of Virtual Try-On for Shoes, an interactive mobile experience that uses augmented reality to help customers visualize how a pair of shoes will look on themselves from every angle and to better inform purchasing decisions, from the comfort of their home or on the go. Customers using the Amazon shopping app on iOS can use Virtual Try-On for Shoes to visualize thousan