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Communities of Leadership: Amazon Mobile Sales Top $1 Billion
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Amazon’s sales initiated through mobile devices have topped $1 billion at an annual rate, the company announced. That’s about 5% of total sales. Mobile devices like Kindle and apps for phones and pads are likely to be an ever-growing share of revenues and profits for on-line retailers like Amazon. Here’s the report from Guardian [...]
Amazon · customers · growth · innovation · mobile telecoms · service
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Communities of Leadership: Amazon, Sales up 41%, Now Sells More Kindle Books Than Hardbacks in the U.S.
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Amazon announced quarterly results a few days ago. Growth remains heady: sales up 41% from the year ago quarter, operating income up 71%. Amazon generated $2.5 billion in cash for the last twelve months, up from $1.9 billion in the year-ago trailing twelve months. At the time of the earnings release, Amazon announced that [...]
Amazon · customers · growth · innovation · leadership · profit · value
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Communities of Leadership: Bloomberg BusinessWeek’s Top 50
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Bloomberg BusinessWeek has released its annual listing of the 50 best performing companies in the S&P 500 over a five year period. The following four members of our list of Communities of Leadership were included. Apple (4) Amazon (10) Google (16) Hewlett-Packard (28) The project is sponsored in part by Accenture, another member of our [...]
Accenture · Amazon · Apple · business · excellence · Google · Hewlett-Packard · leadership · value
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Communities of Leadership: Top Internet Influencers and Innovators
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In late April, the blog Internet Evolution named its 100 most influential and innovative people on the internet. Here are the representatives from our Communities of Leadership, offered here as a way of beginning to fill in our understanding of the leadership teams beyond the CEO. The list is grouped by categories of activity/specialization. [...]
Amazon (Jeff Bezos, CEO) is now my natural place to shop for books. My guess is that the same is true for many customers around the world, now not only for books, but for music, videos, games, shoes, and a range of other household and automotive products. Amazon is now a sales channel for [...]
Amazon · business · community · culture · customers · leadership · people · service · values
