Amazon.com (AMZN)

Kindle and Kindle DX are available for immediate shipment to over 100 countries. Additionally, the Kindle for iPhone App is now available from the Apple App Store in more than 60 countries. Customers around the world can now synchronize reading between their Kindle, Kindle DX, personal computer, iPhone, iPod touch and soon, Blackberry, Mac and iPad.

The U.S. Kindle Store now has more than 410,000 books, including 100 of 112 New York Times Bestsellers, more than 8,000 blogs, and more than 130 top U.S. and International newspapers and magazines, including: The New York Times, The Wall Street Journal, The Times (U.K.), Le Monde, The Economist, The New Yorker, Newsweek, and Time.

The Company announced that authors and publishers around the world can now use the self-service Kindle Digital Text Platform (DTP) to upload and sell books in English, German and French to customers worldwide in the Kindle Store.

Amazon.com announced a new 70 percent royalty option for Kindle DTP, enabling authors and publishers to earn more royalties. Beginning June 30, authors and publishers who select the new royalty option will receive 70 percent of list price, net of delivery costs.

The Company introduced Kindle Development Kit, which gives developers access to programming interfaces, tools and documentation to build and upload active content for Kindle.

North America segment sales, representing the Company’s U.S. and Canadian sites, were $4.96 billion, up 36% from fourth quarter 2008.

International segment sales, representing the Company’s U.K., German, Japanese, French and Chinese sites, were $4.56 billion, up 49% from fourth quarter 2008. Excluding the favorable impact from year-over-year changes in foreign exchange rates throughout the quarter, International sales grew 37%.

Worldwide Media sales grew 29% to $4.68 billion. Excluding the favorable impact from year-over-year changes in foreign exchange rates throughout the quarter, sales grew 23%.

Worldwide Electronics & Other General Merchandise sales grew 60% to $4.61 billion. Excluding the favorable impact from year-over-year changes in foreign exchange rates throughout the quarter, sales grew 54%.

The Company completed its acquisition of Zappos.com on November 1, 2009. Zappos.com contributed approximately $200 million to fourth quarter revenue.

Amazon Relational Database Service (Amazon RDS), a new web service that makes it easy to set up, operate and scale relational databases in the cloud, was introduced by Amazon Web Services (AWS). Amazon RDS provides cost-efficient and resizable capacity while automating time-consuming database administration tasks, freeing users to focus on their application and their business.

AWS introduced Spot Instances for Amazon EC2, a new option that allows customers to purchase and consume Amazon EC2 compute resources. With Spot Instances, customers bid on unused Amazon EC2 capacity and run those instances for as long as their bid exceeds the current Spot Price. Spot Instances can enable lower costs and provide significant short-term capacity for customers with flexibility in when their applications can run.

Both Amazon EC2 and Amazon S3 lowered pricing during the quarter. Amazon EC2 lowered prices up to 15% for all On-demand instance families and sizes, while Amazon S3 introduced new pricing tiers that will reduce storage cost for multi-petabyte customers by more than 15%.

This week we started shipping Kindle with U.S. & International Wireless and lowered its price to $259 from $279. This newest Kindle is available to ship to customers living outside the U.S. Customers in more than 100 countries around the world, and U.S. customers traveling abroad, can take advantage of Kindle’s 3G wireless technology to download a title in 60 seconds or less.

The U.S. Kindle Store now has more than 360,000 books, including 101 of 112 New York Times Bestsellers, more than 7,000 blogs, and more than 90 top U.S. and International newspapers and magazines, including: The New York Times, The Wall Street Journal, The Times (U.K.), Le Monde, The Economist, Newsweek, Time, and Fortune. Kindle owners can also select from over 60,000 audiobooks from Audible.com and listen to them directly on their Kindle.

The Company announced “Kindle for PC,” the free application for reading Kindle books on the PC. Kindle for PC features Amazon’s Whispersync technology, which automatically saves and synchronizes customers’ bookmarks and last page read across devices, including the Kindle, Kindle DX, iPhone, iPod touch, and PC.

North America segment sales, representing the Company’s U.S. and Canadian sites, were $2.84 billion, up 23% from third quarter 2008.

International segment sales, representing the Company’s U.K., German, Japanese, French and Chinese sites, were $2.61 billion, up 33% from third quarter 2008. Excluding the unfavorable impact from year-over-year changes in foreign exchange rates throughout the quarter, International sales grew 35%.

Worldwide Media sales grew 17% to $2.93 billion. Excluding the unfavorable impact from year-over-year changes in foreign exchange rates throughout the quarter sales grew 18%.

Worldwide Electronics & Other General Merchandise sales grew 44% to $2.36 billion. Excluding the unfavorable impact from year-over-year changes in foreign exchange rates throughout the quarter sales grew 45%.

Amazon.com launched “Local Express Delivery,” a new shipping option giving customers same-day delivery on thousands of items in seven major cities: New York, Philadelphia, Boston, Baltimore, Las Vegas, Seattle and Washington D.C. Amazon Prime members pay just $5.99 per item for the service.

The Company continues to expand and enhance free shipping offers across the world. Amazon.co.uk began offering free shipping on all products in the U.K., eliminating the prior threshold of £5; while Amazon.co.jp now offers free same-day delivery service to Amazon Prime customers in the Kanto and Kansai regions of Japan.

Items shipped on behalf of sellers who utilized Fulfillment by Amazon (FBA) more than tripled from the prior year. Sellers can still join FBA and take advantage of Amazon’s extended delivery promise for the holidays – customers can order items as late as December 23rd and still get them in time for the holidays.

Amazon.com expanded its Frustration-Free Packaging program, offering additional items from Fisher-Price, Mattel, Kingston and other leading toy and electronics manufacturers in easy-to-open, environmentally friendly packaging.

Amazon Web Services (AWS) launched Amazon Virtual Private Cloud (Amazon VPC), a secure and seamless bridge between a company’s existing IT infrastructure and the AWS cloud, enabling enterprises to connect their existing infrastructure to AWS compute resources.

Amazon.com reduced the price of Kindle, the #1 bestseller in its consumer electronics store, to $299.

The Kindle Store offers more than 320,000 books, including 104 of 110 New York Times Best Sellers, more than 6,000 blogs and top U.S. and international newspapers and magazines. The Economist, Foreign Affairs, and PC Magazine join top-selling periodicals in the Kindle Store including The New York Times, The Wall Street Journal, The Washington Post, USA Today, The New Yorker, Time, and Newsweek.

North America segment sales, representing the Company’s U.S. and Canadian sites, were $2.45 billion, up 13% from second quarter 2008.

International segment sales, representing the Company’s U.K., German, Japanese, French and Chinese sites, were $2.20 billion, up 16% from second quarter 2008. Excluding the unfavorable impact from year-over-year changes in foreign exchange rates throughout the quarter, International sales grew 28%.

Worldwide Media sales grew 1% to $2.44 billion. Excluding the unfavorable impact from year-over-year changes in foreign exchange rates throughout the quarter sales grew 7%.

Worldwide Electronics & Other General Merchandise sales grew 35% to $2.07 billion. Excluding the unfavorable impact from year-over-year changes in foreign exchange rates throughout the quarter sales grew 41%.

Sellers utilizing Fulfillment by Amazon more than tripled compared to second quarter 2008, and the service has shipped more items year-to-date than in all of 2008.

Amazon launched its MP3 music service in France, offering more than 8 million DRM-free songs from all four major labels and hundreds of independent labels that can be played on any MP3 player.

The Company launched a beta version of Amazon Wireless (amazonwireless.com), a new website offering cell phones and service plans, hassle-free rebates and FREE Two-Day Shipping on a broad selection of phones initially from AT&T and Verizon Wireless.

Amazon Web Services (AWS) launched a public beta of the following new features to make using the Amazon Elastic Compute Cloud (Amazon EC2) even easier for developers: Amazon CloudWatch, a web service for monitoring AWS cloud resources; Auto Scaling for automatically growing and shrinking Amazon EC2 capacity based on demand; and Elastic Load Balancing for distributing incoming traffic across Amazon EC2 compute instances.

Amazon.com introduced Kindle 2, the new reading device that offers Kindle’s revolutionary wireless delivery of content in a new slim design with longer battery life, faster page turns, a crisper display, and over seven times more storage. The Kindle Store offers more than 270,000 books, including 104 of 112 New York Times Best Sellers, plus top U.S. and international newspapers and magazines.

The Company launched “Kindle for iPhone and iPod touch,” a free application that allows customers to enjoy Kindle titles on the iPhone and iPod touch. Amazon’s Whispersync technology saves and synchronizes customers’ bookmarks across their original Kindle, Kindle 2, iPhone and iPod touch.

Amazon Web Services (AWS) announced the public beta of Amazon Elastic MapReduce. Utilizing a hosted Hadoop framework, this new service enables businesses, researchers, data analysts and developers to easily and cost-effectively process vast amounts of data using Amazon Elastic Compute Cloud (Amazon EC2) and Amazon Simple Storage Service (Amazon S3).

AWS introduced Reserved Instances, an additional pricing option for Amazon EC2 that gives developers the opportunity to make a low, one-time payment to reserve capacity and further reduce hourly usage charges.

AWS and IBM announced a relationship that will allow developers to run some of IBM’s most popular software on top of Amazon EC2. Customers can pay by the hour for the software, bring their

own existing licenses with no additional software fee, or use free versions in the cloud for development and test purposes.

North America segment sales, representing the Company’s U.S. and Canadian sites, were $2.58 billion, up 21% from first quarter 2008.

International segment sales, representing the Company’s U.K., German, Japanese, French and Chinese sites, were $2.31 billion, up 15% from first quarter 2008. Excluding the unfavorable impact from year-over-year changes in foreign exchange rates throughout the quarter, International sales grew 28%.

Worldwide Media sales grew 7% to $2.72 billion, compared with $2.54 billion in first quarter 2008.

Worldwide Electronics & Other General Merchandise sales grew 38% to $2.05 billion, compared with $1.48 billion in first quarter 2008, and increased to 42% of worldwide net sales compared with 36%.

Items shipped on behalf of sellers who utilized Fulfillment by Amazon increased by more than 300% from the prior year.

The Company launched its latest mobile application, “Amazon App for BlackBerry.” Available for free download on any BlackBerry with a track ball, the application offers customers a quick and simple way to find, discover and buy products on Amazon.com.

Amazon launched its MP3 music service in Germany, offering more than 5 million DRM-free songs from all four major labels and hundreds of independent labels that can be played on any MP3 player.

Amazon.com’s Video Game store beta-launched the Amazon Video Games Trade-In service, allowing customers to receive an Amazon.com Gift Card in exchange for eligible video games.

North America segment sales, representing the Company’s U.S. and Canadian sites, were $3.63 billion, up 18% from fourth quarter 2007.

International segment sales, representing the Company’s U.K., German, Japanese, French and Chinese sites, were $3.07 billion, up 19% from fourth quarter 2007. Excluding the unfavorable impact from year-over-year changes in foreign exchange rates throughout the quarter, International sales grew 31%.

Worldwide Media sales grew 9% to $3.64 billion, compared with $3.33 billion in fourth quarter 2007.

Worldwide Electronics & Other General Merchandise sales grew 31% to $2.89 billion, compared with $2.21 billion in fourth quarter 2007, and increased to 43% of worldwide net sales compared with 39%.

Amazon.com introduced Frustration-Free Packaging, a multi-year initiative designed to make it easier for consumers to liberate items from their packaging by eliminating hard plastic clamshell cases, plastic bindings and plastic-coated wire ties. Frustration-Free Packaging is also more environmentally friendly than traditional packaging. The program launched with products from leading manufacturers including Fisher-Price, Mattel, Microsoft and Transcend.

Amazon.com shipped over 3 million units worldwide in fourth quarter 2008 on behalf of sellers who utilized Fulfillment by Amazon.

Amazon.co.uk launched the Amazon MP3 music service, offering more than 4 million DRM-free songs from all four major and hundreds of independent labels that can be played on any MP3 player.

Amazon Web Services (AWS) launched Amazon CloudFront, a self-service, pay-as-you-go web service for content delivery enabling global content distribution and seamless integration with Amazon S3.

AWS launched the ability to run Microsoft Windows Server on Amazon Elastic Compute Cloud (Amazon EC2) and enabled customers to run their Amazon EC2 instances in two Availability Zones within a new European Region with full-service features like Elastic IP addresses and Amazon Elastic Block Store.

AWS introduced tiered pricing for Amazon S3, enabling customers’ costs to decrease as their storage volume grows.

The Kindle Store contains the largest collection of e-books available anywhere in the world. Selection increased by 45,000 titles in the fourth quarter, bringing the total to 230,000 titles. One hundred three out of 112 current New York Times bestsellers are available and, along with most new releases, are priced at $9.99 or less. In addition, the Kindle Store recently added The Arizona Republic, The Baltimore Sun, The Orange County Register and USA Today and now offers newspapers from 8 of the top 10 metro areas in the United States.

Kindle selection continues to grow, with available book titles more than doubling since launch to over 185,000, including 105 out of 112 of the New York Times bestsellers, all priced at $9.99 or less. Additionally, newspaper, magazine and blog selection have each more than doubled since launch. The Kindle Store has added periodicals such as the Chicago Tribune, Financial Times, Los Angeles Times, MIT Technology Review, and U.S. News & World Report to a list that already included the New York Times, Wall Street Journal, Washington Post, Forbes, Fortune, Newsweek and Time.

Kindle titles already account for more than 10% of unit sales for books that are available in both digital and print formats.

Worldwide Media sales grew 19% to $2.49 billion, compared with $2.09 billion in third quarter 2007.

Worldwide Electronics & Other General Merchandise sales grew 52% to $1.64 billion, compared with $1.08 billion in third quarter 2007, and increased to 38% of worldwide net sales compared with 33%.

North America segment sales, representing the Company’s U.S. and Canadian sites, were $2.30 billion, up 29% from third quarter 2007.

International segment sales, representing the Company’s U.K., German, Japanese, French and Chinese sites, were $1.96 billion, up 33% from third quarter 2007, and increased to 46% of worldwide net sales compared with 45%. Excluding the favorable impact from year-over-year changes in foreign exchange rates throughout the quarter, International sales grew 28%.

Amazon.com shipped over 1 million units in third quarter 2008 on behalf of sellers who utilized Fulfillment by Amazon.

Amazon.fr launched Amazon Premium, the local version of Amazon Prime, on October 1, 2008. Members pay an annual fee of €49 for unlimited express delivery throughout France.

Amazon.co.uk lowered its free shipping threshold from £15 to £5.

Amazon Europe launched Automotive and Apparel stores on its amazon.de website and a Health and Personal Care store on its amazon.co.uk website, offering customers tens of thousands of new items from hundreds of top brands.

Amazon Payments launched two new products, Checkout by Amazon and Amazon Simple Pay, enabling merchants to allow their customers to use their Amazon account to complete a transaction.

Amazon Web Services (AWS) launched the Amazon Elastic Block Store (Amazon EBS), a new persistent storage feature for the Amazon Elastic Compute Cloud (Amazon EC2). With Amazon EBS, storage volumes can be programmatically created, attached to Amazon EC2 instances, and if more durability is desired, can be backed up with a snapshot to the Amazon Simple Storage Service (Amazon S3).

Oracle announced that they will be supporting Oracle Database 11g on Amazon EC2, as well as supporting other services such as Amazon S3.

Worldwide Media sales grew 31% to $2.41 billion in second quarter 2008, compared with $1.83 billion in second quarter 2007.

Worldwide Electronics & Other General Merchandise sales grew 58% to $1.53 billion in second quarter 2008, compared with $0.97 billion in second quarter 2007, and increased to 38% of worldwide net sales compared with 34%.

North America segment sales, representing the Company’s U.S. and Canadian sites, were $2.17 billion, up 35% from second quarter 2007.

International segment sales, representing the Company’s U.K., German, Japanese, French and Chinese sites, were $1.89 billion, up 47% from second quarter 2007, and increased to 47% of worldwide net sales compared with 45%. Excluding the favorable impact from year-over-year changes in foreign exchange rates throughout the quarter, International sales grew 34%.

Amazon.com customers can now take advantage of Bill Me Later, a new alternative payment method. Bill Me Later’s next-generation payments service provides customers another convenient payment option when shopping on Amazon.com.

The Company acquired Fabric.com, a leading online fabric store that offers custom measured and cut fabrics, as well as patterns, sewing tools and accessories.

Amazon.co.jp launched Convenience Store Pickup Service, which offers customers the option to pick up their orders at any of the 8,500 Lawson stores throughout Japan.

Over 400,000 developers have registered to use Amazon Web Services (AWS), up more than 30,000 from last quarter.

AWS released a new family of instance types, the high CPU family. These instances have proportionally more CPU resources than RAM (compared to standard instances) and are well suited for compute-intensive applications such as rendering, search indexing and computational analysis.

Amazon.com introduced a limited beta version of Amazon Video On Demand. The service lets customers rent or buy ad-free movies and television shows and watch them instantly within their web browser on Macs or PCs and through Sony BRAVIA television sets with the use of the Sony BRAVIA Internet Video Link.

Kindle selection continued to grow with more than 140,000 titles available.

Kindle selection continues to grow—with more than 115,000 titles now available, up from 90,000 at launch.

Amazon Web Services (AWS) launched Elastic IP addresses and the ability to provide compute instances in multiple Availability Zones, two new features that enable Amazon Elastic Compute Cloud (EC2) developers to build even more powerful and fault-resilient applications in the cloud.

Over 370,000 developers have registered to use AWS, up more than 35,000 from last quarter.

The Company launched Amazon TextBuyIt (www.textbuyit.com), a service that lets customers use text messages to find and buy products sold on Amazon.com. With the addition of TextBuyIt to the existing mobile offering, customers can now shop, compare prices and buy from virtually anywhere they are with any mobile device.

The number of sellers using Fulfillment by Amazon increased by more than 50% compared with fourth quarter 2007.

North America segment sales, representing the Company’s U.S. and Canadian sites, were $2.13 billion, up 31% from first quarter 2007.

International segment sales, representing the Company’s U.K., German, Japanese, French and Chinese sites, were $2.01 billion, up 44% from first quarter 2007, and increased to 49% of worldwide net sales compared with 46%. Excluding the favorable impact from year-over-year changes in foreign exchange rates throughout the quarter, International sales grew 31%.

Worldwide Media sales grew 28% to $2.54 billion in first quarter 2008, compared with $1.99 billion in first quarter 2007.

Worldwide Electronics & Other General Merchandise sales grew 56% to $1.48 billion in first quarter 2008, compared with $0.95 billion in first quarter 2007, and increased to 36% of worldwide net sales compared with 31%.

The Company introduced Amazon Kindle, a revolutionary wireless portable reader that provides instant wireless downloads of more than 90,000 books, blogs, magazines and newspapers to a crisp, high-resolution electronic paper display. The Amazon Kindle team is scrambling to increase manufacturing, as demand remains higher than supply. Kindles are being delivered to customers on a first come, first served basis.

Amazon MP3 added DRM-free music downloads from Sony BMG Music Entertainment and Warner Music Group, making it the only retailer to offer DRM-free MP3 music downloads from all four major music labels as well as over 50,000 independent labels. The MP3 store now includes over 3.4 million songs from more than 270,000 artists. Pepsi will debut the Pepsi Stuff Amazon MP3 promotion, a massive collect-and-get program, during the upcoming Super Bowl.

Over 330,000 developers have registered to use Amazon Web Services (AWS), up more than 30,000 from last quarter.

Adoption of Amazon Elastic Compute Cloud (EC2) and Amazon Simple Storage Service (S3) continues to grow. As an indicator of adoption, bandwidth utilized by these services in fourth quarter 2007 was even greater than bandwidth utilized in the same period by all of Amazon.com’s global websites combined.

AWS launched a limited beta of its SimpleDB Service, which allows queries to run on structured data in real time. This service works in conjunction with Amazon EC2 and Amazon S3, collectively providing the ability to store, process and query data sets in the cloud.

AWS launched European storage for Amazon S3, allowing software developers and businesses to store their data physically in Europe. Amazon S3 is a storage service in the cloud offering software developers and businesses low-cost access to the same scalable and reliable storage infrastructure Amazon uses to run its own global network of websites.

North America segment sales, representing the Company’s U.S. and Canadian sites, were $3.08 billion, up 40% from fourth quarter 2006.

International segment sales, representing the Company’s U.K., German, Japanese, French and Chinese sites, were $2.59 billion, up 46% from fourth quarter 2006. Excluding the favorable impact from year-over-year changes in foreign exchange rates throughout the quarter, International sales grew 35%.

Worldwide Media sales grew 33% to $3.33 billion in fourth quarter 2007, compared with $2.50 billion in fourth quarter 2006.

Worldwide Electronics & Other General Merchandise sales grew 58% to $2.21 billion in fourth quarter 2007, compared with $1.40 billion in fourth quarter 2006, and increased to 39% of worldwide net sales compared with 35%.

A record number of customers took advantage of Amazon Prime, the Company’s unlimited free-shipping program. Amazon Prime is now available in the U.K., Germany, Japan and the U.S.

Amazon.com shipped over half-a-million units in fourth quarter 2007 on behalf of sellers who utilized the Fulfillment by Amazon service.

North America segment sales, representing the Company’s U.S. and Canadian sites, were $1.79 billion, up 42% from third quarter 2006.

International segment sales, representing the Company’s U.K., German, Japanese, French and Chinese sites, were $1.47 billion, up 40% from third quarter 2006. Excluding the favorable impact from year-over-year changes in foreign exchange rates throughout the quarter, International net sales growth was 33%.

Worldwide Media grew 36% to $2.09 billion in third quarter 2007, compared to $1.54 billion in third quarter 2006.

Worldwide Electronics & Other General Merchandise grew 54% to $1.08 billion in third quarter 2007 and increased to 33% of worldwide net sales compared with 30% in third quarter 2006.

The Company sold 2.5 million copies of Harry Potter and the Deathly Hallows worldwide, making it Amazon’s largest new product release.

The Company launched a public beta of Amazon MP3, a digital music store with Earth’s biggest selection of a la carte DRM-free MP3 music downloads. Amazon MP3 has over two million songs from more than 180,000 artists represented by over 20,000 major and independent labels.

Amazon Europe launched a Shoes store and a Baby store on the amazon.co.uk and amazon.de websites, offering customers tens of thousands of items from hundreds of leading brands.

Amazon Europe launched a Home & Kitchen store on the amazon.fr website, offering customers thousands of items from well-known electrical appliance and kitchenware brands.

Amazon.co.jp opened an Apparel & Shoes store offering more than 30,000 items from more than 100 well-known brands.

Fulfillment by Amazon launched in beta on the amazon.co.uk, amazon.de and amazon.co.jp websites, giving small and medium-sized businesses access to Amazon’s fulfillment, customer service, and underlying website technology.

Over 290,000 developers have registered to use Amazon Web Services (AWS), up 25,000 from the prior quarter. AWS also launched a limited beta version of the Amazon Flexible Payments Service (FPS). Amazon FPS is the first payments service designed from the ground up specifically for developers, and provides unprecedented flexibility in the movement of money through a set of web services APIs.

AWS recently introduced several new compute instance types for the Amazon Elastic Compute Cloud, which provide up to eight times more memory, CPU, and storage, enabling developers to support an even broader set of applications.

Amazon Simple Storage Service (S3) continues to be rapidly adopted by developers, and objects in storage have doubled to more than ten billion during the last six months. In addition, we have instituted a Service Level Agreement for Amazon S3 that guarantees operational performance levels.

North America segment sales, representing the Company’s U.S. and Canadian sites, were $1.60 billion, up 38% from second quarter 2006.

International segment sales, representing the Company’s U.K., German, Japanese, French and Chinese sites, were $1.28 billion, up 31% from second quarter 2006. Excluding the favorable impact from year-over-year changes in foreign exchange rates throughout the quarter, International net sales growth was 26%.

Worldwide Media grew 27% to $1.83 billion in second quarter 2007, compared to $1.45 billion in second quarter 2006.

Worldwide Electronics & Other General Merchandise grew 55% to $970 million in second quarter 2007 and increased to 34% of worldwide net sales compared with 29% in second quarter 2006.

The Company received orders for more than 2.2 million copies of Harry Potter and the Deathly Hallows worldwide in advance of its July 21 release, making it Amazon’s largest new product release.

Amazon.co.jp launched Amazon Prime for its Japanese customers in June. Members pay an annual fee of JPY 3,900 for access to unlimited express delivery service that can be used throughout Japan. The service offers same-day delivery for the Kanto area and next-day delivery to other locations.

Amazon Enterprise Solutions and Lacoste launched a multi-channel e-commerce solution, including a website (www.lacoste.com), phone ordering, customer service, and fulfillment.

Amazon Europe launched a Jewelry and Watches store on its amazon.co.uk website and a Watches store on its amazon.de website, both offering customers thousands of items from brands such as Rotary, Diesel, Timex and Citizen.

Amazon Europe launched Merchants@ technology on its amazon.fr website, enabling branded businesses to offer their selection of new products.

Joyo.com has been re-branded as Joyo Amazon and now incorporates many of the features and functionalities found on other Amazon websites.

Over 265,000 developers have registered to use Amazon Web Services, up 25,000 from the prior quarter.

North America segment sales, representing the Company’s U.S. and Canadian sites, were $1.62 billion, up 30% from first quarter 2006.

International segment sales, representing the Company’s U.K., German, Japanese, French and Chinese sites, were $1.39 billion, up 35% from first quarter 2006. Excluding the favorable impact from year-over-year changes in foreign exchange rates throughout the quarter, International net sales growth was 27%.

Worldwide Media grew 26% to $1.99 billion in first quarter 2007, compared to $1.58 billion in first quarter 2006.

Worldwide Electronics & Other General Merchandise grew 48% to $947 million in first quarter 2007, and increased to 31% of worldwide net sales compared with 28% in first quarter 2006.

Amazon Enterprise Solutions Europe and leading U.K. retailer Marks & Spencer launched a leading-edge multi-channel e-commerce solution, including website (www.marksandspencer.com), phone catalog, customer support applications and point-of-sale system integration using the proven technology and expertise of Amazon.

Amazon Europe launched a Sports & Leisure store on its amazon.co.uk website, with thousands of products to choose from in categories like fitness, team sports, outdoor sports, clothing and accessories, footwear and more.

Amazon Europe launched a Toys store on its amazon.fr website, offering customers a selection of thousands of items from well-known brands, including Hasbro, Mattel and LEGO.

Over 240,000 developers have registered to use Amazon Web Services, up greater than 50% year-over-year. Additionally, just over one year after introducing Amazon S3, a simple storage service for software developers, over 5 billion data objects are stored using this web service.

Amazon’s Japan website launched the Merchants@ technology, which enables larger, branded businesses to offer their selection of new products on www.amazon.co.jp.

Amazon Business Solutions expanded its Fulfillment by Amazon program in the U.S. by enabling multi-channel order fulfillment for third parties.

The Company launched “Amazon Unbox on TiVo,” available to over 1.5 million broadband-ready TiVo boxes and offering subscribers a great way to find, download and watch on their televisions thousands of movies and TV shows available through Amazon Unbox.