Code/red: Amazon Prone

How long are Amazon’s shareholders willing to live without profits? Not much longer. Amazon shares slipped deep into the mud today, falling 12 percent in early trading as investors came to terms with the larger-than-expected loss the company reported Thursday. Evidently, Amazon’s disregard for its bottom line is becoming an issue for shareholders, who for years were willing to ignore its compulsive overspending as long as it fueled breakneck top-line growth. Certainly, few seem to be paying much heed to Amazon CFO Tom Szkutak’s “we have a long-term view” assurances today. There’s a point at which “We’re not trying to optimize for short-term profits” begins to read as disdain for shareholders, and Amazon may have reached it yesterday.

BGC Partners analyst Colin Gillis on Amazon: “It’s hard to have $20 billion in revenue and not make any money. It’s a real feat.”

Ken Florance, VP of content delivery at Netflix: “I will make Netflix content magically show up wherever. In exchange, [ISPs] should provide the network your subscribers are paying for.”

Excerpt from Comic-Con’s convention policies: “Remember recording of footage on the screens during panels is prohibited. This includes Google Glasses. You cannot wear Google Glasses during footage viewing in any program room. If your Google Glasses are prescription, please bring a different pair of glasses to use during these times.”

A pedestrian commenting on Jimmy Kimmel’s iWatch, a $20 Casio watch with an Apple logo on it: “I just like the Apple logo on the back. If it’s Apple, it’s good, right?”

James Bessen, Harvard Business Review: “Research shows that patent trolls cost defendant firms $29 billion per year in direct out-of-pocket costs; in aggregate, patent litigation destroys over $60 billion in firm wealth each year.”

The Hollywood Reporter: “Hewlett-Packard has settled a trademark infringement suit regarding the name of a penis-measurement app sold in its app store. Ernest Evans, the singer-songwriter who performed as Chubby Checker, sued HP last year for selling the app under the punning title The Chubby Checker.”

Paleontologist Stephen Brusatte: “I think that the common ancestor of dinosaurs probably had feathers, and that all dinosaurs had some type of feather, just like all mammals have some type of hair.”

ifo Apple Store: “For the first time in recent history, Apple’s announcement of its quarterly financial results did not include details about the retail stores, and a one-hour conference call made absolutely no mention of the chain at all.”

Motorola: “Made of super thin, flexible materials, based on VivaLnk’s eSkinTM technology, each digital tattoo is designed to unlock your phone with just a touch of your Moto X to the tattoo, no passwords required.”

Stephen Colbert: “I wish there weren’t any cables. … I think charging cables on anything are terrible. I wish I could walk into my house and things would charge, or that I could have a subscription service to a charging system, and anywhere I went in the United States there’d be a charge that would follow me around.”

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