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Amazon Marketplace

morddwyd

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Posted July 14, 2011 at 8:52AM

Doing a bit of shopping yesterday and noticed that Lloyds Pharmacy was operating in Amazon Marketplace.

No reason why they shouldn't, of course, just seeing it as a sign of Amazon's success that a main high street retailer with their own well developed website obviously sees business benefits here.

There are probably others, but this is the first I've come across.

A matter of concern now must be that Amazon is so successful that it must be ripe for a takeover from some financial conglomerate wanting to make a quick buck

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chub_tor

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Posted July 14, 2011 at 10:07AM

A matter of concern now must be that Amazon is so successful that it must be ripe for a takeover from some financial conglomerate wanting to make a quick buck

Now that Microsoft has absorbed Skype perhaps they would be obvious buyers of Amazon...

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morddwyd

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Posted July 14, 2011 at 10:26AM

fm

The sort of people to whom your link refers, are not really the sort of people I was referring to. They include the founder and some corporate investors.

I was referring more to the private equity companies who go in, asset strip and then back out

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alan14

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Posted July 14, 2011 at 1:34PM

The current market value of Amazon is $96bn, it would take a very wealthy company to take it over. Whilst Microsoft does have $99bn of listed assets, and a market value of $224bn, I'm not sure Amazon would be someone they'd be looking to buy.

http://finapps.forbes.com/finapps/jsp/finance/compinfo/CIAtAGlance.jsp?tkr=AMZN

http://finapps.forbes.com/finapps/jsp/finance/compinfo/CIAtAGlance.jsp?tkr=MSFT

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