Amazon (company)

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Amazon.com, Inc.
Amazon logo plain.svg
Seattle Spheres on May 10, 2018.jpg
The Amazon Spheres, part of the Amazon headquarters campus in Seattle
Trading name
Amazon
Formerly
Cadabra, Inc. (1994�95)
Type
Public
Traded as
NASDAQ: AMZN
NASDAQ-100 component
S&P 100 component
S&P 500 component
ISIN US0231351067
Industry
Cloud computing
Consumer electronics
Digital distribution
E-commerce
Founded July 5, 1994; 24 years ago in Bellevue, Washington
Founder Jeff Bezos
Headquarters Seattle, Washington, U.S.
Area served
Worldwide
Key people
Jeff Bezos (chairman, president and CEO)
Werner Vogels (CTO)
Products
Amazon EchoAmazon FireAmazon Fire TVAmazon Fire OSAmazon Kindle
Services
Amazon.comAmazon AlexaAmazon AppstoreAmazon MusicAmazon PrimeAmazon Video
Revenue Increase US$232.887 billion (2018)
Operating income
Increase US$12.421 billion (2018)
Net income
Increase US$10.073 billion (2018)
Total assets Decrease US$162.648 billion (2018)
Total equity Decrease US$43.549 billion (2018)
Number of employees
Increase 613,300 (2018)
Subsidiaries
A9.comAbeBooksAmazon AirAlexa InternetAmazon BooksAmazon Game StudiosAmazon
Lab126Amazon Logistics, Inc.Amazon PublishingAmazon RoboticsAmazon.com
ServicesAmazon StudiosAudibleBody LabsAWSBook
DepositoryComiXologyGoodreadsGraphiqIMDbRingSouq.comTwitch InteractiveWhole Foods
MarketWootZappos
Website www.amazon.com
Footnotes / references
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Amazon.com, Inc.[6] (/'�m??z?n/), is an American multinational technology company
based in Seattle, Washington that focuses in e-commerce, cloud computing, and
artificial intelligence.

Amazon is the largest e-commerce marketplace and cloud computing platform in the
world as measured by revenue and market capitalization.[7] Amazon.com was founded
by Jeff Bezos on July 5, 1994, and started as an online bookstore but later
diversified to sell video downloads/streaming, MP3 downloads/streaming, audiobook
downloads/streaming, software, video games, electronics, apparel, furniture, food,
toys, and jewelry. The company also owns a publishing arm, Amazon Publishing, a
film and television studio, Amazon Studios, produces consumer electronics lines
including Kindle e-readers, Fire tablets, Fire TV, and Echo devices, and is the
world's largest provider of cloud infrastructure services (IaaS and PaaS) through
its AWS subsidiary.[8] Amazon has separate retail websites for some countries and
also offers international shipping of some of its products to certain other
countries.[9] 100 million people subscribe to Amazon Prime.[10][11]

Amazon is the largest Internet company by revenue in the world[12] and the second
largest employer in the United States.[13] In 2015, Amazon surpassed Walmart as the
most valuable retailer in the United States by market capitalization.[14] In 2017,
Amazon acquired Whole Foods Market for $13.4 billion, which vastly increased
Amazon's presence as a brick-and-mortar retailer.[15] The acquisition was
interpreted by some[by whom?] as a direct attempt to challenge Walmart's
traditional retail stores.