Provided by Dow Jones By Sebastian Herrera Amazon.com Inc. reported record quarterly profit as demand remained robust for its deliveries, cloud-computing and advertising businesses, capping a blockbuster earnings season for the world's largest technology companies. Seattle-based Amazon said profits more than tripled to $8.1 billion, a quarterly record for the e-commerce company, and January-to-March sales were $108 billion, a 44% increase from the same period a year earlier. Revenue far exceeded the $105 billion predicted on average by analysts polled by FactSet. Amazon, Apple Inc., Facebook Inc., Google and Microsoft Corp. all reported significant gains in profits and revenue, underscoring how the pandemic has helped strengthen technology companies and put them increasingly at the center of daily life around the world.