Amazon.com Inc. (NASDAQ:AMZN) has reported that it had a strong holiday season, with Prime membership levels rising and two Amazon products topping the company's best-selling charts.
In a statement, the online retail giant said that in one week during the holiday period, more than four million people either began trial memberships of Amazon Prime or started paid memberships.
Amazon added that its Echo Dot speaker and Fire TV Stick with Alexa remote were the site's best-sellers.
The company did not give specifics about device sales but said that customers bought "twice as many" Fire TV Sticks this holiday season relative to last year.
In lunchtime trading in New York, Amazon shares were 0.7% higher at US$1,177.