Amazon

Amazon.com (/ˈæməzɒn/ or /ˈæməzən/), 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.[12] 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).[13]Amazon also sells certain low-end products like USB cables under its in-house brand AmazonBasics.
Amazon.com, Inc.
Amazon Logo
Type of businessPublic
Type of site
E-commerce
Available inEnglish, French, German, Spanish, Italian, Chinese, Japanese, Brazilian Portuguese, Dutch, Polish, Turkish
Traded asNASDAQ: AMZN
NASDAQ-100 Component
S&P 100 Component
S&P 500 Component
FoundedJuly 5, 1994; 22 years ago (as Cadabra)
Seattle, Washington, U.S.
HeadquartersSeattle, Washington, U.S[1][2][3]
Area servedWorldwide
OwnerJeff Bezos (17%)[4][5]
Founder(s)Jeff Bezos
Key peopleJeff Bezos (Chairman, President and CEO)
Werner Vogels (CTO)
Andrew Jassy (CEO, AWS)
Jeff Wilke (CEO, Consumer)
IndustryInternet
ProductsAmazon.com, Appstore, AWS, The Book Depository, comiXology, Game Studios, Video, Instant Video UK, Instant Video German, Audible, Kindle, Fire, Lab126, Studios, Twitch.tv, Woot, Echo, Shopbop, Amazon Books
ServicesOnline shopping
Cloud computing
Digital distribution
RevenueIncrease US$135.98 billion (2016)[6]
Operating incomeIncrease US$4.186 billion (2016)[6]
Net incomeIncrease US$2.371 billion (2016)[6]
Total assetsIncrease US$83.402 billion (2016)[6]
Total equityIncrease US$19.285 billion (2016)[6]
EmployeesIncrease 341,400 (2017)[7][8]
SubsidiariesA9.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
Websiteamazon.com (original U.S. site)
Various national sites
Alexa rankDecrease 11 (Global, May 2017)[9]
AdvertisingWeb banners, videos
LaunchedJuly 5, 1994[10]
Written inC++ and Java[11]
Amazon has separate retail websites for the United States, the United Kingdom and 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.[14] In 2016, Dutch, Polish, and Turkish language versions of the German Amazon website were launched.[15][16][17]
In 2015, Amazon surpassed Walmart as the most valuable retailer in the United States by market capitalization,[18]. Amazon is the fourth most valuable public company in the world, the largest internet company by revenue in the world and the ninth largest employer in the United States.[19]

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