AMAZON

• an American electronic commerce and cloud computing company based in Seattle, Washington
• founded by Jeff Bezos on July 5, 1994
• the largest Internet retailer in the world as measured by revenue and market capitalization
• started as an online bookstore and later diversified to sell
video downloads/streaming, MP3 downloads/streaming,
sell audiobook downloads/streaming, software, video games, electronics, apparel, furniture,
food, toys, and jewelry.
• Also produces consumer electronics—Kindle e-readers, Fire tablets, Fire TV, and Echo—and is
the world's largest provider of cloud infrastructure services (Infrastructure as a Service (IaaS)
and Platform as a Service (PaaS) ).
• sells certain low-end products under its in-house brand AmazonBasics.
• fourth most valuable public company in the world
• the largest Internet company by revenue in the world
• the second largest employer in the United States.
• 1998–2004 — Amazon starts to expand its services beyond books. It also starts offering
convenience services, such as Free Super Savers Shipping.
• 2005–2011 -- Amazon moves into the cloud computing area with Amazon AWS, as well as the
crowdsourcing area with Amazon Mechanical Turk. By being an early player, it eventually
dominates the cloud computing scene, allowing it to control much of the physical infrastructure
of the Internet.[1] Amazon also offers the Amazon Kindle for people to purchase their books
as eBooks, and by 2010, more people buy ebooks than physical books off of Amazon.
• 2011–2015 - Amazon starts offering streaming services like Amazon Music and Amazon Video.
By 2015, its market capitalization surpasses that of Walm


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