Compare and contrast with Google. Much of its blue-sky thinking seems to be located not so much in the cloud as it is in cloud-cuckoo land by comparison.
Europe’s regulators want to take a bite out of both of them, but Amazon appears to have too many strings to its bow to be badly hurt.
Not so Google. Its core web advertising and search business is under pressure from another direction. Rivals are queuing up to take shots as web browsing increasingly goes mobile.
Don’t count it out, but the prospects for its contribution to the Nasdaq over the next 15 years look rather murkier than they do for Amazon.
