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Amazon.com, Inc.
Trade name
 Amazon
Formerly
 Cadabra, Inc. (1994–95)
Public
Traded as
  • NASDAQ: AMZN
  • NASDAQ-100 component
  • S&P 100 component
  • S&P 500 component
ISIN US0231351067
Industry
Founded July 5, 1994; 29 years ago (1994-07-05)[citation needed] in Bellevue, Washington, United States
Founder Jeff Bezos
Headquarters
Seattle, Washington, and Arlington, Virginia
,
United States
Area served
 Worldwide
Key people
Products
Services
Revenue Increase US$232.887 billion (2018)
Operating income
 Increase US$12.421 billion (2018)
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 647,500 (2018)
Subsidiaries
  • A9.com
  • AbeBooks
  • Amazon Air
  • Alexa Internet
  • Amazon Books
  • Amazon Game Studios
  • Amazon Lab126
  • Amazon Logistics, Inc.
  • Amazon Publishing
  • Amazon Robotics
  • Amazon.com Services
  • Amazon Studios
  • Audible
  • Body Labs
  • AWS
  • Book Depository
  • ComiXology
  • Goodreads
  • Graphiq
  • IMDb
  • Ring
  • Souq.com
  • Twitch Interactive
  • Whole Foods Market
  • Woot
  • Zappos

Amazon.com, Inc., known as Amazon, is an American online business and cloud computing company. It was founded on July 5, 1994 by Jeff Bezos. It is based in Seattle, Washington. It is the largest Internet-based store in the world by total sales and market capitalization. Amazon.com started as an online bookstore. When it got bigger, it started selling DVDs, Blu-rays, CDs, video downloads/streaming, MP3s, audiobooks, software, video games, electronics, apparel, furniture, food, toys, and jewelry. It also makes consumer electronics like Kindle e-readers, Fire tablets, Fire TV, and Echo. It is the world's largest provider of cloud computing services. Amazon also sells products like USB cables using the name AmazonBasics.

Amazon has separate retail websites for the United States, the United Kingdom, Ireland, France, Canada, Germany, Italy, Spain, Netherlands, Australia, Brazil, Japan, China, India, and Mexico. Amazon also offers international shipping to some countries for some of its products. In 2016, Dutch, Polish, and Turkish language versions of the German Amazon website were launched.

Subsidiaries

Amazon owns over 40 smaller companies, including Zappos, Shopbop, Diapers.com, Kiva Systems (now Amazon Robotics), Audible, Goodreads, Teachstreet and IMDb.

Images for kids

  • Amazon Hyderabad campus

    The company's largest campus outside the United States was inaugurated in Hyderabad, India in September 2019.

  • Jeff Bezos 2016

    Amazon founder Jeff Bezos in 2016

  • Whole Foods Market Cranbrook Village Ann Arbor Michigan

    Whole Foods Market store in Ann Arbor, Michigan

  • Lauwin-Planque - Lauwin-Park (02)

    Amazon.fr fulfillment center in Lauwin-Planque, France

  • Amazon España por dentro (San Fernando de Henares)

    Amazon.es fulfillment center in San Fernando de Henares, Spain

  • Amazon warehouse Glenrothes

    Amazon.co.uk fulfillment center in Glenrothes, Scotland, UK

  • Amazon.de 1204 - panoramio

    Amazon.de fulfillment center in Graben, Germany

  • AmazonIchikawaFC (78316917)

    Amazon.co.jp fulfillment center in Ichikawa, Japan

  • Amazon fulfillment center, Macon

    Amazon fulfillment center in Macon, Georgia, U.S.

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