Amazon.com, Inc. (AMZN) Earnings Miss: 21 Cents EPS vs. 29 Expected

Amazon.com, Inc. (NASDAQ:AMZN) announced its earnings for the fourth quarter of 2012 today. The company earned 21 cents per share in the three months and took in revenue of $22.7 billion. After the release of the earnings report, the firm's shares were down by more than 3% in after-market trading.

Analysts were expecting the company to announce earnings of 29 cents per share, and revenues of $22.3 billion. The third quarter of the year saw the company lose 23 cents...