Scott Devitt

Amazon.com's plans for world domination hit a slight bump on Tuesday. For years, the retailer has been telling Wall Street to ignore how little money it was making and focus instead on the fact that it was bringing in more and more customers and keeping them so happy they never went anywhere else for anything. In Amazon's fourth-quarter results, however, investors finally glimpsed off in the distance that growth beginning to flatten. Its revenue rose to $17.43 billion, up 35 percent. Most retailers would die happy with such a jump.

A firm called iSuppli, tracks unit shipments of different electronic devices. They are out today with a new Tablet update and it firmly establishes the Kindle Fire as the number 2 selling Tablet behind iPad and shows Amazon's amazing ability to come out of nowhere in this market. It also shows that while the Nook has gotten some press, the order volume is very low.