Amazon moving on from disrupting retail to target tech firms

Its focus is shifting from retail to online ads and services, which is good news for ‘Main Street’, not so much for Facebook and Google, says Conor Sen.

WHEN people think about Amazon disrupting the economy, they focus on physical retail — all those disappearing bookstores — but the company’s fourth-quarter earnings report makes it clear that it’s increasingly moving onto the turf of other tech companies.