Amazon Just Lost $1.8 Million in an Hour
E-commerce Site Was Down for 90 Minutes June 6, 2008 NEW YORK (AdAge.com) -- E-commerce site Amazon went down this afternoon around 1:30 EDT and stayed down for at least an hour. Attempts to access Amazon.com were met with the following message: "Http/1.1 Service Unavailable." It's hard to know exactly how many dollars a minute Amazon loses in sales for every moment its site is down, but simple math pegs it at about $1.8 million an hour, based on Ad Age estimates. Read the full story at: http://adage.com/digital/article?article_id=127593 -- Abbey Klaassen
Techno Granny Note: Other companies should be in such a posiiton to lose that much money in an hour! As my grandson would say, Awesome!
Techno Granny Show blog is an additional way for Techno Granny Talk Cast fans to keep up with Techno Granny. She is a 61 year old single grandmother who also hosts four Talk Casts on the Talk Shoe network. The Techno Granny show is designed to bring baby boomers and others up to snuff with 21st Century technology. TechnoGranny Talks is more than that, it is technology finds and opinions of a tech savvy grandmother who is a power user of technology.
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Friday, June 6, 2008
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