If you like to keep up with news, announcements, and cheerleading about Amazon — and the increasingly large portion of that news that relates in one way or another to the Kindle — you might enjoy tuning in to the live webcast of Amazon’s 2010 Annual Meeting of Shareholders, which will be held tomorrow (May 25) at 9 a.m. Pacific Time in Seattle.
Amazon.com to Webcast Annual Shareholders Meeting
SEATTLE, May 21, 2010 (BUSINESS WIRE) –Amazon.com, Inc. (NASDAQ:AMZN) announced today that it will webcast its 2010 Annual Meeting of Shareholders to be held in Seattle on May 25, 2010, at 9:00 a.m. PT/12:00 p.m. ET.
The event will be webcast live, and the audio and associated slides will be available for at least three months thereafter, at www.amazon.com/ir.
SOURCE: Amazon.com, Inc.
As Amazon prepares for the meeting, its shares closed Friday at $122.72, down (with the rest of the market) from its all-time high of $151.09 last month, but up from about $66 when the company announced the Kindle 2 on February 9, 2009 (see comparison with Nasdaq and Dow indices below).