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Title: Chart of the day: Apple is No. 2 after Amazon in online retail Post by: HCK on May 08, 2014, 02:00:03 pm Chart of the day: Apple is No. 2 after Amazon in online retail
A 24% increase to $18.3 billion last year put it ahead of Staples and Wal-Mart. <p>FORTUNE -- The value of those 800 million iTunes accounts -- most of them attached to credit cards -- is starting to have an impact on Apple's (AAPL) bottom line.</p> <p>According to a report in the Wall Street Journal, Apple's online retail business has passed Staples' (SPLS) and Wal-Mart's (WMT) digital efforts to occupy a (distant) No. 2 spot after Amazon (AMZN).</p> <p>Part of Apple's 24% increase MORE (http://tech.fortune.cnn.com/2014/05/07/apple-amazon-online-retail/)<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=tech.fortune.cnn.com&blog=8466345&post=141531&subd=fortunebrainstormtech&ref=&feed=1" width="1" height="1" /><img src="http://feeds.feedburner.com/~r/fortuneapple20/~4/KrS2fHxQ1gE" height="1" width="1"/> Source: Chart of the day: Apple is No. 2 after Amazon in online retail (http://rss.cnn.com/~r/fortuneapple20/~3/KrS2fHxQ1gE/http://tech.fortune.cnn.com/2014/05/07/apple-amazon-online-retail/#commentshttp://tech.fortune.cnn.com/2014/05/07/apple-amazon-online-retail/feed/atom/) |