The Federal Trade Commission is about to file an antitrust lawsuit against Amazon, according to The Wall Street Journal. According to the report, the government says Amazon treats its own products better than those sold by other parties. The charges may also show that it treats outside partners poorly. Big companies have been broken up in the past. AT&T is the most recent example, in 1982. Amazon may be the next American corporation to which that happens. (These are 17 awful investments made by Amazon.)<\/p>\n
Amazon has two major divisions, one of which feeds the other financially. The separation of these would be logical. The first is the massive e-commerce operation. In the most recent quarter, Amazon\u2019s North America and international e-commerce operations had a combined revenue of $112 billion and an operating income of $2.2 billion. For years, it has taken market share from America\u2019s retailers, both their online operations and brick-and-mortar. However, its margins remain very small.<\/p>\n
Amazon Web Services is arguably Amazon\u2019s most successful business. The largest cloud computing operation in the world, it primarily competes with Microsoft and Google. It is growing rapidly. Its revenue in the most recent quarter rose 12% to $21.4 billion. Its operating income was $5.14 billion.<\/p>\n \t\t\t\t