Revenue growth appears to be slowing, though… Shares down in after-hours
Amazon closed out 2018 with a bang, well, a $72.4bn fourth quarter, according to figures released Thursday.
The Bezos Bunch said they also logged $233bn of sales that year, and banked $10.1bn in profit. Here’s a summary for the quarter, ending December 31:
On the full 2018 year:
Though hiring was down from previous years, Amazon said it had added a bundle of tech and research positions. In discussing the results with analysts on a conference call, Amazon execs said AWS had added a number of tech and sales positions, while CEO Jeff Bezos said earlier that Alexa had bolstered its roster of boffins.
« The number of research scientists working on Alexa has more than doubled in the past year, and the results of the team’s hard work are clear, » the Beez boasted.
