Amazon Site Shutdown Fails to Faze Investors

SAN FRANCISCO -- Yet another e-commerce titan suffered a breakdown today, this time it was Amazon.com (AMZN Quote).

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Bill Curry, director of public relations for Amazon.com, told TheStreet.com the site was down for 36 minutes, and the company had identified the source of the problem, but refused to disclose what it was. A notice on Amazon's site said that its books, music video, toys and electronics stores were temporarily closed. "We expect to be back soon," a note read, and users were able to leave their e-mail address if they wanted to be notified when the site was back up. TheStreet.com received such a notice at 3:58 p.m. EDT. ...