Amazon.com Inc. said Tuesday that it had a strong holiday season, with Prime membership levels rising and two Amazon products topping the company’s best-selling charts. In one week during the holiday period, more than four million people either began trial memberships of Amazon Prime or started paid memberships, according to a release. Amazon’s Echo Dot speaker and Fire TV Stick with Alexa remote were the site’s best-sellers, Amazon added. The company tends not to give specifics about device sales but said that customers bought “twice as many” Fire TV Sticks this holiday season relative to last year’s. Amazon shares are down 0.4% in Tuesday morning trading but up 56% so far in 2017. The S&P 500 is up 20% this year.
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