Amazon (store)
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amazon.com homepage
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| Type of business | Public |
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E-commerce |
| Available in | English, French, German, Spanish, Italian, Chinese, Japanese, Brazilian Portuguese, Dutch, Polish, Turkish |
| Traded as |
NASDAQ: AMZN NASDAQ-100 Component S&P 100 Component S&P 500 Component |
| Founded | July 5, 1994 (as Cadabra) Seattle, Washington, U.S. |
| Headquarters | Seattle, Washington, U.S |
| Area served | Worldwide |
| Owner | Jeff Bezos (17%) |
| 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 | Amazon.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 |
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Online shopping Cloud computing Digital distribution |
| Revenue |  US$135.98 billion (2016) |
| Operating income | US$4.186 billion (2016) |
| Net income | US$2.371 billion (2016) |
| Total assets | US$83.402 billion (2016) |
| Total equity | US$19.285 billion (2016) |
| Employees |
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 Various national sites |
| Alexa rank |
 11 (Global, May 2017[update])
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| Advertising | Web banners, videos |
| Launched | July 5, 1994 |
| Written in | C++ and Java |
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. 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.
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