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Amazon UK

Amazon.com, Inc.
Amazon Logo
Type of business Public
Type of site
E-commerce
Available in English, French, German, Spanish, Italian, Chinese, Japanese, Brazilian Portuguese, Dutch, Polish, Turkish
Traded as NASDAQAMZN
NASDAQ-100 Component
S&P 100 Component
S&P 500 Component
Founded July 5, 1994; 22 years ago (1994-07-05) (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 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 IncreaseUS$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)
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
Alexa rank Decrease13 (Global, April 2017)
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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