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Amazon Shares Drop After Site Outage
Reuters | 06 Jun 2008 | 03:49 PM ET
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Online retailer Amazon.com Web Site was hit by a technical failure Friday, with users in various U.S. cities as well as London reporting trouble accessing the site.

Those who tried signing onto the popular portal saw a message saying "Service Unavailable," and the problem appeared to persist for over an hour. Representatives at Amazon did not return calls seeking comment.

Amazon [AMZN  Loading...      ()   ] shares were down more than 4 percent Friday.

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