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It doesn't make any sense to me for the author to compare three companies that have nothing to do with each other. One if a all-purpose retailer, one a hardware company and one sells advertising.

That being said, Amazon is the runaway freight train in online retailing. With sales of $24.5 billion, there isn't anyone else even remotely close. Staples is no.2 at $9.5 billion and Walmart is an order of magnitude smaller than Amazon.

Amazon are on a tear this quarter with net sales growing 40%.

Now you add in their position as a leader in cloud-computing, along with the kindle.. and I think their future prospects are great.




To be fair Amazon and Google are more or less in direct competition with their cloud offerings. Also Amazon and itunes for that matter.




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