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©2016 Bloomberg View O1U7S96S9728 (Bloomberg View) — After Amazon.com missed analysts’ quarterly profit forecasts Thursday, investors lopped as much as 10 percent off of its stock price, the most in a year. The company reported fourth-quarter net income that more than doubled to a record $482 million from a year earlier;

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©2015 Bloomberg News NZO0YY6KLVR4 (Bloomberg) — Every two weeks, Jeff Bezos holds an hour- long conference call with executives at the Washington Post. Twice a year, the managers fly to Seattle for day-long strategy sessions with the Amazon.com Inc. founder. And every so often, they find a reader complaint in

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©2015 Bloomberg News NVKAVKSYF01V (Updates with analyst comment in fifth paragraph.) (Bloomberg) — Amazon.com Inc. will stop selling media- streaming devices from Google Inc. and Apple Inc. that aren’t easily compatible with its video service, the latest example of the company using its clout to promote products that fit with

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©2015 Bloomberg News NOBABP6KLVR7 (Bloomberg) — Wal-Mart Stores Inc. will offer a $50-a-year unlimited free-shipping service for online customers starting this summer, seeking to challenge the $99 Prime service offered by retail rival Amazon.com Inc. The service will be available by invitation only in select markets, said Ravi Jariwala, a spokesman

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©2015 Bloomberg News NNAABH6K510D (Bloomberg) — Minutes after the Nasdaq Composite closed at a record, three of the biggest bellwethers in technology reminded the market precisely why investors are so bullish on companies that do business through the Web. Amazon.com Inc. for the first time broke out sales from its

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