Amazon

Amazon.com,

 Also called Amazon, is an American electronic commerce and cloud computing company that was founded on July 5, 1994, by Jeff Bezos and is based in Seattle, Washington. It is the largest Internet-based retailer in the world by total sales and market capitalization.Amazon.com started as an online bookstore, later diversifying to sell DVDs, Blu-rays, CDs, video downloads/streaming, MP3 downloads/streaming, audiobook downloads/streaming, software, video games, electronics, apparel, furniture, food, toys, and jewelry. The company also produces consumer electronics—notably, Kindle e-readers, Fire tablets, Fire TV, and Echo—and is the world's largest provider of cloud infrastructure services (IaaS and PaaS). Amazon also sells certain low-end products like USB cables under its in-house brand AmazonBasics.

Amazon has separate retail websites for the United States, the United Kingdom, Ireland, France, Canada, Germany, Italy, Spain, Netherlands, Australia, Brazil, Japan, China, India, and Mexico. Amazon also offers international shipping to certain other countries for some of its products. In 2016, Dutch, Polish, and Turkish language versions of the German Amazon website were launched.
In 2015, Amazon surpassed Walmart as the most valuable retailer in the United States by market capitalization,[21] and was in the third quarter of 2016 the fourth most valuable public company.

The logo of Amazon.com
Amazon.com is an online store that sells books, movies, games, DVDs, music CDs, computer software and other items (like Amazon Kindle). It is the largest online retailer right now. It was started by Jeff Bezos in 1994 and the headquarters is in Seattle. The original name was Cadabra.com but was changed to Amazon later on because it sounded like the word "cadaver". The store is named after the world's second longest river.


Amazon
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Type Public
Traded as NASDAQ: AMZN
NASDAQ-100 Component
S&P 100 Component
S&P 500 Component
Foundation date July 5, 1994; 23 years ago (as Cadabra)
Seattle, Washington, U.S.
Headquarters Seattle, Washington, U.S
Area served Worldwide
Founder(s) Jeff Bezos
Key people Jeff Bezos (Chairman, President and CEO)
Werner Vogels (CTO)
Andrew Jassy (CEO, AWS)
Jeff Wilke (CEO, Consumer)
Industry Internet
Products Appstore, AWS, The Book Depository, comiXology, Game Studios, Video, Instant Video UK, Instant Video German, Audible, Kindle, Fire, Lab126, Studios, Twitch.tv, Woot, Echo, MyHabit.com(closed), Shopbop,Askville
Services Online shopping
Cloud computing
content distribution
Revenue Increase US$135.98 billion (2016
Operating income Increase US$4.186 billion (2016)
Net income Increase US$2.371 billion (2016)
Total assets Increase US$83.402 billion (2016)
Total equity Increase US$19.285 billion (2016)
Owner Jeff Bezos (17%)
Employees Increase 341,000 (2017)
Subsidiaries A9.com, Amazon Web Services, Amazon Elastic Compute Cloud, Alexa Internet, Audible.com, comiXology, Digital Photography Review, Goodreads, Internet Movie Database, Junglee.com, Twitch.tv, Zappos, Souq.com
Slogan(s) Work hard, have fun, make history
Website amazon.com (original U.S. site)
Various national sites
Written in C++ and Java
Alexa rank Decrease 13 (Global, April 2017)
Type of site E-commerce
Advertising Web banners, videos
Available in English, French, German, Spanish, Italian, Chinese, Japanese, Brazilian Portuguese, Dutch, Polish, Turkish
Launched July 5, 1994