{"id":51373,"date":"2018-07-27T00:55:10","date_gmt":"2018-07-26T22:55:10","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/theworldwidejournal.com\/2018\/07\/27\/amazon-posts-record-2-5bn-profit-fueled-by-ad-and-cloud-businesses\/"},"modified":"2018-07-27T00:55:10","modified_gmt":"2018-07-26T22:55:10","slug":"amazon-posts-record-2-5bn-profit-fueled-by-ad-and-cloud-businesses","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/theworldwidejournal.com\/?p=51373","title":{"rendered":"Amazon posts record $2.5bn profit fueled by ad and cloud businesses"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Shares climb following results that were twice what analysts expected, as revenue grows 39% to $53bnAmazon posted a record profit of $2.5bn in the second quarter of 2018, thanks to strong performance by the retail giant\u2019s non-retail divisions \u2013 advertising and cloud-computing, the company announced Thursday, The favorable profit results, which were double analyst expectations, buoyed tech investors a day after weak growth saw Facebook\u2019s market value plunged by $119bn, the single greatest one-day loss in US history. Continue reading&#8230;<br \/>\nVia: <a href=\"https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/technology\/2018\/jul\/26\/amazon-profit-second-quarter-2018-advertising-cloud\" target=\"_blank\">Amazon posts record .5bn profit fueled by ad and cloud businesses<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Shares climb following results that were twice what analysts expected, as revenue grows 39% to $53bnAmazon posted a record profit of $2.5bn in the second quarter of 2018, thanks to strong performance by the retail giant\u2019s non-retail divisions \u2013 advertising and cloud-computing, the company announced Thursday, The favorable profit results, [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[3],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-51373","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-english"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/theworldwidejournal.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/51373","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/theworldwidejournal.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/theworldwidejournal.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/theworldwidejournal.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/theworldwidejournal.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=51373"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/theworldwidejournal.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/51373\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/theworldwidejournal.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=51373"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/theworldwidejournal.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=51373"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/theworldwidejournal.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=51373"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}