Amazon (company) facts for kids
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Cadabra, Inc. (1994–95) |
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ISIN | US0231351067 |
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Founded | July 5, 1994citation needed] in Bellevue, Washington, United States | [
Founder | Jeff Bezos |
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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
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The company's largest campus outside the United States was inaugurated in Hyderabad, India in September 2019.
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Amazon founder Jeff Bezos in 2016
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Whole Foods Market store in Ann Arbor, Michigan
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Amazon.es fulfillment center in San Fernando de Henares, Spain
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Amazon.co.uk fulfillment center in Glenrothes, Scotland, UK
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Amazon.co.jp fulfillment center in Ichikawa, Japan
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Amazon fulfillment center in Macon, Georgia, U.S.
See also
In Spanish: Amazon para niños
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