Amazon announces 'record-breaking' holiday with 'billions' of items sold

Amazon Sales.
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Amazon has unsurprisingly had a good holiday season.

The online retailer declined to share the specifics of its holiday sales in a Thursday post-Christmas press release, but did confirm this year's season was "record breaking." "Billions” of items were ordered and "tens of millions" of Amazon products were sold around the world, the release said.

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Kathryn Krawczyk

Kathryn is a graduate of Syracuse University, with degrees in magazine journalism and information technology, along with hours to earn another degree after working at SU's independent paper The Daily Orange. She's currently recovering from a horse addiction while living in New York City, and likes to share her extremely dry sense of humor on Twitter.