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Amazon (company)

Amazon.com, Inc.
Formerly called
Cadabra, Inc. (1994–1995)
Public
Traded as
ISIN US0231351067
Industry Online shopping
Founded July 5, 1994; 23 years ago (1994-07-05)
Founder Jeff Bezos
Headquarters Seattle, Washington, U.S.
Area served
Worldwide
Key people
Products
Revenue IncreaseUS$135.98 billion (2015)
IncreaseUS$4.186 billion (2015)
IncreaseUS$2.371 billion (2015)
Total assets IncreaseUS$83.402 billion (2015)
Total equity IncreaseUS$19.285 billion (2015)
Owner Jeff Bezos (17%)
Number of employees
Increase 341,400 (2017)
Subsidiaries
Website amazon.com
Amazon.com
Type of site
E-commerce
Available in
Owner Amazon.com
Slogan(s) Work hard, have fun, make history
Website amazon.com (original U.S. site)
Alexa rank 11 (Global, July 2017)
Commercial Yes
Registration Optional
Launched 1995
Current status Online
Written in C++ and Java

Amazon.com, Inc. (/ˈæməzɒn/) 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. The tech giant is the largest Internet-based retailer in the world by total sales and market capitalization. Amazon.com started as an online bookstore and later diversified 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.


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