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Amazon also down for minutes...

Amazon annual volume was S$110 billion, while annual turnover of Tmall.com and Taobao.com, two major Chinese online shopping platforms was 630 billion yuan in 2011 (from the link below) i.e. S$126 billion (exchange of S$1=5 RMB).

Hmm... Amazon serves internationally, while Tmall.com and Taobao.com serve mainly China market...

http://english.sina.com/business/p/2012/...33664.html

Amazon.com down for 15mins in US, Canada

NEW YORK — Amazon.com, the website of the world’s largest online retailer, went down for about 15 minutes yesterday (Aug 19) in a rare outage for many users across the United States and Canada.

It was unclear what triggered the rare disruption. The company, whose Amazon Web Services is designed to ramp up server capacity for customers to prevent outages, did not respond to multiple requests for comment.

Earlier on Monday, users from New York and Toronto to San Francisco got only error messages when trying to access the popular shopping website. The news came less than a week after the website of the New York Times went down for about two hours.

Amazon has S$110 billion in annual gross merchandise volume, including its business through third-party sellers, according to consultants at RetailNet Group. Going by that estimate, Amazon processes some US$163,622 in transactions per minute on average. REUTERS

http://www.todayonline.com/tech/amazonco...-us-canada

I never forgave Transpac for selling Alibaba to Yahoo...