and welcome to asia business report, and welcome to asia business report, and sharanjit and welcome to asia business report, and shara njit leyl. and welcome to asia business report, and sharanjit leyl. we start with the us, which is expecting big business news from amazon, but did not get everything it hoped. we saw profits increase a whopping $2.5 billion from a year ago, but missed a nalysts's billion from a year ago, but missed analysts's expectations. us shares have been rising about 2.3%. —— amazon shares have been rising. of course, we know amazon is the first $1 trillion company in history. our technology reporter dave lee has been following the story and brings us been following the story and brings us this update. well, i think a lot of people were certainly worried about facebook coming in well below expectations yesterday that it might be something of a trend, the amazon, which is obviously huge technology company here, it obviously follow suit. that does not seem to...