Amazon.com

Type: Public
On the web: http://www.amazon.com
Employees: 24,300
Employee growth: 17.4%

What started as Earth's biggest bookstore has rapidly become Earth's biggest anything store. Expansion has propelled Amazon.com in innumerable directions. Its main Web site offers millions of books, music, and movies (which still account for most of its sales), not to mention auto parts, toys, electronics, home furnishings, apparel, health and beauty aids, prescription drugs, and groceries. Also, shoppers can download books, games, MP3s, and films to their computers or handheld devices, including Amazon's own portable reader, the Kindle. Amazon also offers services and products, such as self-publishing, online advertising, a Web store platform, and a co-branded credit card. Amazon acquired Zappos.com in 2009.

Key numbers for fiscal year ending December, 2009:
Sales: $24,509.0M
One year growth: 27.9%
Net income: $902.0M
Income growth: 39.8%

Officers:
Chairman, President, and CEO: Jeffrey P. (Jeff) Bezos
SVP and CFO: Thomas J. (Tom) Szkutak
Senior Manager Business Development: Scott Merlino

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Maximum sum

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Explain polymorphism. Provide an example.

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Second largest elemen

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N red balls

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Given an array of size n. It contains numbers in the range 1 to n. Find the numbers which aren’t present.

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