Text size Packages from Amazon.com Inc. are stacked on the sidewalk in New York, USA, on Thursday, June 11, 2020. Jeenah Moon / Bloomberg With a big boost from accelerated e-commerce adoption amid the Covid-19 pandemic, Amazon. com released second-quarter financial results that dramatically exceeded Wall Street estimates and the …
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