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Amazon Media Sales, Profit Margins May Highlight Q1

Analysts see strength in media sales and profit margin expansion helping bolster Amazon.com (AMZN) when the e-tail leader reports first-quarter results after the market close Thursday. The consensus estimate of 44 analysts polled by Thomson Reuters is for the e-commerce giant to post earnings per share minus items, but including stock option expenses, of 23 cents a share, up 28% from 18 cents in the year-earlier quarter, on sales of $19.4 billion,

Amazon May Expand Grocer Program To Washington, D.C.

Amazon.com, which plans this year to expand its AmazonFresh online grocery business from West Coast test areas to 20 urban centers across the U.S. and possibly overseas, might soon offer the service in parts of the greater Chicago and New York metropolitan areas, and Washington, D.C. Bill Bishop, a supermarket analyst and chief architect of retail technology consulting firm Brick Meets Click, says his “best educated guess” is that Amazon (AMZN)

Amazon Wrote The Book On E-Commerce, Looks Beyond

The term creative destruction is thrown around a lot, but Amazon truly ushered in a new industry while disrupting several others. It wrote the book on e-commerce, spreading from its bookselling roots into a behemoth that brought down brick-and-mortar rivals with superior service and execution, to linking new and unlikely businesses in novel ways. Amazon (AMZN), founded in 1994 by CEO Jeff Bezos in his garage, started as an online