Another Jump for Amazon Even with the bar set pretty high, Amazon met or exceeded analysts’ consensus expectations with first quarter sales of $4.13 billion, up 37 percent, and net income of $143 million, up 30 percent from a year ago. Yet the company’s earnings guidance for the next quarter stayed the same, even as they foresee another strong rise in sales of between 34 percent and 41 percent. That renews investor concerns about the company’s margins and is taking the stock down today after a sharp run-up over the past two months. Of course publishers only care about what […]