Amazon (AMZN) Announces Digital Video License Agreement With Twentieth Century Fox

Amazon.com (AMZN) today announced a licensing agreement with FOX that will allow Amazon Prime members to instantly stream a broad selection of popular movies and TV shows from the FOX library.

This deal will bring the total number of Prime instant videos to more than 11,000 movies and TV shows later this fall.

FOX titles available to Prime members will include contemporary movies such as, "Speed," "Mrs. Doubtfire," "Doctor Dolittle," "Last of the Mohicans," and "Office Space," as well as classics like "The Longest Day," "All About Eve," "9 to 5," and "Butch Cassidy and the Sundance Kid." FOX also brings to Prime members a selection of popular TV series including "24," "The X-Files," "NYPD Blue," "Arrested Development," "Buffy the Vampire Slayer," "Ally McBeal," and newly available on digital video, "The Wonder Years."

"We have received very positive feedback from Prime members about Prime instant videos. Customers love the instant access to thousands of movie and TV favorites," said Steve Oliver, director of Video at Amazon.com. "Since the launch of Prime instant videos in February, we have more than doubled the library to 11,000 titles and will continue to add more of our customers' favorite movies and TV shows to Prime instant videos."

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Amazon (AMZN), Daily Bar Chart, #2 performer Nasdaq 100.


Amazon highlights:

• Amazon was up 43 percent for the quarter ended March 31, 2009.
• Amazon ranked second in performance in the Nasdaq 100 for the quarter, JAVA was number one.
• The 52 week high for Amazon is $91.75. The 52 week low for Amazon is $34.68.
• The March 31 close was $73.44.
• Amazon closed out 2008 at $51.28.

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Is the Barrons Cover the Kiss of Death for Jeff Bezos and Amazon (AMZN)?

Wow. Last night, just after midnight I wrote about Amazon (AMZN)--Amazon . Toast up 5000 percent since IPO (Chart).

Next thing I know, an article from Barron's pops into my reader--The World's Best Retailer. Ironic? Well, yeah.

Here is a note of caution. Jeff Bezos is on the cover of Barron's this week. Why is this important?

If you read my article, Amazon . Toast, all the way to the end you would have noticed that Jeff Bezos was named Time's person of the year in 1999. What happened next? The stock dropped from a split adjusted $113 a share, all the way down to $5.67. Yikes.

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Jeff Bezos' Amazon.com is winning customers with competitive prices, wide selection, reliability -- and Kindle. It's winning shareholders, too.

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THIS MAY BE AN OPPORTUNE time to add shares of Amazon.com to your shopping cart and proceed to checkout.

Now, Amazon is taking that a step further by providing Web services, better known these days as "cloud computing." What is cloud computing? It is the outsourcing of information-technology and data-center operations to third parties, mostly by small- and medium-sized companies that choose not to spend their resources to deal with these tasks themselves. (The name cloud derives from the remote ether-like computer space where the outsourced operations take place.) Amazon, which has spent more than $2 billion on its systems in the last decade, has divided these services into several parts, including: Amazon Simple DB (databases), Amazon Elastic Compute Cloud (computing capacity) and Amazon Simple Storage (data storage).

Price believes these services could eventually generate hundreds of millions of dollars annually -- and investors are getting them for almost nothing.

The second kicker is Kindle, a digital-reading device. Its original version was generally well received, but its recently released 2.0 edition has become a hit with consumers. Wall Street analysts estimate the company has sold 350,000 of the devices, which got a plug from Oprah Winfrey last fall.

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Amazon (AMZN), Ten Year Chart, Monthly.

In May, 1997 Amazon (AMZN) was labeled Amazon.toast and Amazon.bomb by Forrester Research and Barron's. Since then it has risen more than 5,000 percent.

Highlights:

• Amazon was founded in 1994, and went public in 1997.
  
• In 1997, Amazon was labeled Amazon.toast and Amazon.bomb by Forrester Research and Barron's.
• By 1999, cumulative losses at Amazon exceeded $550 million.
  
• In December, 1999, Jeff Bezos was chosen as Time magazine's person of the year (see Cover).
• In December 1999, Amazon reached its highest raw price in history at $113 a share.
  
• In the summer of 2000, an analyst at Lehman Brothers warned investors that the company might run out of cash and advised them to avoid its stock.
• In September 2001, Amazon dropped to its lowest raw price in history--$5.67 a share.
• In October, 2007 Amazon traded over $100 a share for the third time, and the first time since 1999.
• The split adjusted price of Amazon dating back to 1997 is $1.31 a share.
  
• On March 23, 2009 Amazon closed at $75.61 a share, its highest price since falling to $34.68 a share in November, 2008.
• Amazon is currently up more than 50 times its adjusted initial public offering price, or 5,700 percent.

A month after Jeff Bezos' was named Time's person of the year, the company fired 150 workers as part of an internal reorganization. Just five days later, Amazon reported a loss of $323 million for the holiday fourth quarter and promised that future losses would be lower. (The company, however, would later exceed that amount by more than $200 million).

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Amazon’s 450-seat customer service centre in Cork was officially opened today. Nearly a third of the jobs for the centre have already been filled, Amazon said.

Minister for Enterprise, Trade and Employment Micheál Martin TD and Amazon’s senior vice-president of worldwide operations Marc Onetto performed the official opening at the Airport Business Park in Cork. The centre handles internet and telephone queries for Amazon’s UK and French sites.

Onetto said: “As our business has grown, and as we have expanded the categories of products we offer, we need to expand our customer service support as well. The Cork centre, with its strategic location and highly skilled workforce, enables us to grow with the business and provide our many millions of European customers with an improved level of service.”

“I am delighted to see nearly a third of the 450 new positions planned for this facility are already recruited,” said Martin. “The experienced and multilingual personnel in the south-west region was a strong factor in Amazon’s decision to locate this centre in Cork. The digital media sector is transforming the information technology, media and entertainment industries and is creating new opportunities in our ever-evolving knowledge-based society.”