Amazon released the company's second quarter financial report as of June 30, 20 13. The financial report shows that in the second quarter of 20 13, Amazon's net revenue increased by 22% year-on-year, reaching 157 billion US dollars; The net loss was $7 million, and the net profit was $7 million in the second quarter of 20 12.
The financial report also shows that Amazon's second-quarter results failed to meet the expectations of Wall Street analysts because it constantly spent huge sums of money on investment in technology and content. In addition, Amazon's own expectations for the company's third quarter performance are also relatively weak. Affected by these factors, the company's share price also stopped rising and falling in the after-hours trading of the stock market that day.
Players who bought PS4 through Amazon found that they couldn't start the console and other "initial bad" problems, so they suspended the sales of PS4 and started to solve them. 20 14 10/7, EU regulators launched a formal investigation on Amazon's tax arrangements in Luxembourg, which led to another large American enterprise falling into an investigation that attracted much attention from all walks of life.
EU antitrust agency: The European Commission expressed its concern that a tax agreement granted to Amazon [Weibo] by the Luxemburg tax authorities in 2003 may be equivalent to giving the American company illegal state subsidies. The European Commission may ask Luxembourg to recover the taxes that the EU thinks it has not paid from Amazon. As part of the same investigation, Luxembourg provided information on several cases, including Amazon, to the Committee at its request in August. This move shows that the EU's tax investigation may spread to a wider scope.
In 2003, Luxembourg's tax ruling applied to Amazon's local subsidiary: Amazon EU Sarl. According to the European Commission, the ruling may underestimate the taxable profit of this Amazon subsidiary, which accounts for most of Amazon's operating profits in Europe. Beijing time1February 16, Seattle police issued an official statement on Monday, saying that an employee of Amazon found a threatening letter in the bathroom, and then the police had evacuated employees in an Amazon office building in the city.
The police sent a mine detection team to assist in the investigation. An Amazon employee told Komo News, a local TV station in Seattle, that Jeff Bezos, CEO of the company, was also in the office building during the evacuation.
A Seattle police detective said that the police did not find anything unusual and had evacuated around 13 Pacific time (5: 00 Beijing time on Tuesday).