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| key_people = {{unbulleted list|[[Jeff Bezos]] ([[President (corporate title)|President]], [[Chief executive officer|CEO]], and [[Chairman]])|[[Andy Jassy]] ([[Chief Executive Officer|CEO]]-elect)|Brian Olsavsky ([[Vice president|Senior VP]] and [[Chief financial officer|CFO]])}}
| key_people = {{unbulleted list|[[Jeff Bezos]] ([[President (corporate title)|President]], [[Chief executive officer|CEO]], and [[Chairman]])|[[Andy Jassy]] ([[Chief Executive Officer|CEO]]-elect)|Brian Olsavsky ([[Vice president|Senior VP]] and [[Chief financial officer|CFO]])}}
| products = {{hlist|[[Amazon Echo|Echo]]|[[Amazon Fire tablet|Fire Tablet]]|[[Amazon Fire TV|Fire TV]]|[[Fire OS]]|[[Amazon Kindle|Kindle]]}}
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| services = {{hlist|[[Amazon (company)#Website|Amazon.com]]|[[Amazon Alexa]]|[[Amazon Appstore]]|[[Amazon Music]]|[[Amazon Prime]]|[[Amazon Prime Video]]|[[Amazon Web Services]]}}
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| revenue = {{increase}} {{US$|386.064 [[1,000,000,000|billion]]|link=yes}}
| revenue = {{increase}} {{US$|386.064 [[1,000,000,000|billion]]|link=yes}}
| revenue_year = 2020
| revenue_year = 2020
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| subsid = {{Hlist|[[A9.com]]|[[AbeBooks]]|[[Alexa Internet]]|Amazon.com Services|[[Amazon Air]]|[[Amazon Books]]|[[Amazon Fresh]]|[[Amazon Game Studios]]|[[Amazon Lab126]]|[[Amazon Logistics]]|[[Amazon Pharmacy]]|[[Amazon Publishing]]|[[Amazon Robotics]]|[[Amazon Studios]]|[[Amazon Web Services|AWS]]|[[Audible Inc.|Audible]]|[[Body Labs]]|[[Book Depository]]|[[ComiXology]]|[[Digital Photography Review]]|[[Goodreads]]|[[Graphiq]]|[[IMDb]]|[[PillPack]]|[[Ring Inc.|Ring]]|[[Souq.com]]|[[Twitch Interactive]]|[[Whole Foods Market]]|[[Woot]]|[[Zappos]]}}
| subsid = {{Hlist|[[A9.com]]|[[AbeBooks]]|[[Alexa Internet]]|Amazon.com Services|[[Amazon Air]]|[[Amazon Books]]|[[Amazon Fresh]]|[[Amazon Game Studios]]|[[Amazon Lab126]]|[[Amazon Logistics]]|[[Amazon Pharmacy]]|[[Amazon Publishing]]|[[Amazon Robotics]]|[[Amazon Studios]]|[[Amazon Web Services|AWS]]|[[Audible Inc.|Audible]]|[[Body Labs]]|[[Book Depository]]|[[ComiXology]]|[[Digital Photography Review]]|[[Goodreads]]|[[Graphiq]]|[[IMDb]]|[[PillPack]]|[[Ring Inc.|Ring]]|[[Souq.com]]|[[Twitch Interactive]]|[[Whole Foods Market]]|[[Woot]]|[[Zappos]]}}
| website = {{URL|amazon.com}}
| website = {{URL|amazon.com}}
| footnotes = <ref name=A10K>https://www.sec.gov/ix?doc=/Archives/edgar/data/1018724/000101872421000004/amzn-20201231.htm#i75de98b9097f40f3b5884e541f532421_73. Retrieved February 6, 2021.</ref><ref name="ar2017">{{cite book |title=Annual report 2019 |date=December 31, 2019 |publisher=Amazon |location=Seattle, Washington |url=https://ir.aboutamazon.com/static-files/63a014ac-bd47-42ce-b548-022a90d96e9a |access-date=May 1, 2020 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20200226214255/https://ir.aboutamazon.com/static-files/63a014ac-bd47-42ce-b548-022a90d96e9a |archive-date=February 26, 2020 |url-status=dead }}</ref><ref name="BS">{{Cite web|url=https://www.nasdaq.com/market-activity/stocks/amzn/financials|title=Amazon.com, Inc. Common Stock (AMZN) Financials|website=www.nasdaq.com}}</ref><ref>{{cite web |url=https://ir.aboutamazon.com/node/32656/html |title=Form 10-K |date=December 31, 2018 |website=Amazon.com |access-date=April 12, 2019 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20190420134020/https://ir.aboutamazon.com/node/32656/html |archive-date=April 20, 2019 |url-status=dead }}</ref><ref name="sos">{{cite web|url=https://businesssearch.sos.ca.gov |title=California Secretary of State Business Search |website=Businesssearch.sos.ca.gov}}</ref><ref>{{cite web|url=https://finance.yahoo.com/news/amazon-bought-whole-foods-year-ago-heres-changed-191428325.html |title=Amazon bought Whole Foods a year ago. Here's what has changed | publisher=[[Yahoo! Finance]]}}</ref>
| footnotes = <ref name=A10K>https://www.sec.gov/ix?doc=/Archives/edgar/data/1018724/000101872421000004/amzn-20201231.htm#i75de98b9097f40f3b5884e541f532421_73. Retrieved February 6, 2021.</ref><ref name="ar2017">{{cite book |title=Annual report 2019 |date=December 31, 2019 |publisher=Amazon |location=Seattle, Washington |url=https://ir.aboutamazon.com/static-files/63a014ac-bd47-42ce-b548-022a90d96e9a |access-date=May 1, 2020 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20200226214255/https://ir.aboutamazon.com/static-files/63a014ac-bd47-42ce-b548-022a90d96e9a |archive-date=February 26, 2020 |url-status=dead }}</ref><ref name="BS">{{Cite web|url=https://www.nasdaq.com/market-activity/stocks/amzn/financials|title=Amazon.com, Inc. Common Stock (AMZN) Financials|website=www.nasdaq.com}}</ref><ref>{{cite web |url=https://ir.aboutamazon.com/node/32656/html |title=Form 10-K |date=December 31, 2018 |website=Amazon.com |access-date=April 12, 2019 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20190420134020/https://ir.aboutamazon.com/node/32656/html |archive-date=April 20, 2019 |url-status=dead }}</ref><ref name="sos">{{cite web |url=https://businesssearch.sos.ca.gov/ |title=California Secretary of State Business Search |website=Businesssearch.sos.ca.gov |access-date=2019-10-02 |archive-date=2018-02-23 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20180223134214/https://businesssearch.sos.ca.gov/ |url-status=dead }}</ref><ref>{{cite web|url=https://finance.yahoo.com/news/amazon-bought-whole-foods-year-ago-heres-changed-191428325.html |title=Amazon bought Whole Foods a year ago. Here's what has changed | publisher=[[Yahoo! Finance]]}}</ref>
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'''Amazon.com, Inc.''', known as '''Amazon''' ({{IPAc-en|ˈ|æ|m|ə|ˌ|z|ɒ|n}}), is an American multinational [[technology]] company focusing on selling things online, [[cloud computing]], online [[advertising]], digital [[Streaming media|streaming]], and [[artificial intelligence]]. It is considered to be one of the Big Five American technology companies, alongside Alphabet (parent company of Google), Apple, Meta and Microsoft.
'''Amazon.com, Inc.''', known as '''Amazon''' ({{IPAc-en|ˈ|æ|m|ə|ˌ|z|ɒ|n}}), is an [[United States|American]] online business and [[cloud computing]] company. It was founded on July 5, 1994 by [[Jeff Bezos]]. It is based in [[Seattle]], [[Washington (state)|Washington]]. It is the largest Internet-based store in the world by total sales and [[market capitalization]].<ref>{{cite web|last=Jopson|first=Barney|url=http://www.ft.com/cms/s/0/61828252-ac1d-11e0-b85c-00144feabdc0.html#axzz1RxkefD8m|title=Amazon urges California referendum on online tax|work=Financial Times|date=July 12, 2011|access-date=August 4, 2011|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20110714230245/http://www.ft.com/cms/s/0/61828252-ac1d-11e0-b85c-00144feabdc0.html#axzz1RxkefD8m|archive-date=July 14, 2011|url-status=live}}</ref><ref name="NYtimes-bruising">{{cite web|date=August 16, 2015|title=Inside Amazon: Wrestling Big Ideas in a Bruising Workplace|url=https://www.nytimes.com/2015/08/16/technology/inside-amazon-wrestling-big-ideas-in-a-bruising-workplace.html|work=The New York Times}}</ref> Amazon.com started as an online [[bookstore]]. When it got bigger, it started selling [[DVD]]s, [[Blu-ray]]s, [[compact Disc|CDs]], [[Amazon Video|video]] downloads/streaming, [[MP3]]<nowiki/>s, [[Audible.com|audiobook]]<nowiki/>s, [[software]], [[video game]]s, [[consumer electronics|electronics]], apparel, furniture, food, toys, and jewelry<!--jewelry is US spelling-->. It also makes [[consumer electronics]] like [[Amazon Kindle|Kindle]] [[e-reader]]s, [[Kindle Fire|Fire]] [[tablet computer|tablet]]s, [[Fire TV]], and [[Amazon Echo|Echo]]. It is the world's largest provider of [[cloud computing]] services.<ref>{{cite web|url=https://www.srgresearch.com/articles/microsoft-cloud-revenues-leap-amazon-still-way-out-front|title=Microsoft Cloud Revenues Leap; Amazon is Still Way Out in Front - Synergy Research Group|authors=Synergy Research Group, Reno, NV|work=srgresearch.com}}</ref> Amazon also sells products like [[USB]] cables using the name AmazonBasics.


Amazon was founded by Jeff Bezos from his garage in Bellevue, Washington, on July 5, 1994. It started selling books online. Now it sells many things online, so it is sometimes called The Everything Store. It has multiple subsidiaries including Amazon Web Services (cloud computing), Zoox (autonomous vehicles), Kuiper Systems (satellite Internet), and Amazon Lab126 (computer hardware R&D). The company owns Ring, Twitch, IMDb, and Whole Foods Market. Its acquisition of Whole Foods in August 2017 for US$13.4 billion substantially increased its footprint as a physical retailer.
Amazon has separate retail websites for the [[United States]], [[Argentina]], [[Brazil]], [[United Kingdom]], [[France]], [[Ireland]], [[Canada]], [[Colombia]], [[Germany]], [[Australia]], [[Italia]], [[Netherlands]], [[Spain]], [[Portugal]], [[Japan]], [[Poland]], [[Mexico]], [[Sweden]], [[Turkey]], the [[United Arab Emirates]], and [[Republic of India]]. Amazon also offers international shipping to some countries for some of its products.<ref name="Amazon.com-Jan-2013-10-K">{{cite web|url=http://pdf.secdatabase.com/1562/0001193125-13-028520.pdf|title=Amazon.com, Form 10-K, Annual Report, Filing Date Jan 30, 2013|publisher=SEC database|access-date=February 26, 2013}}</ref> In 2016, Dutch, Polish, and Tamil languages versions of the German Amazon website were launched.<ref>{{Cite web|url=http://amazonprime.fromabroad.org/now-can-visit-amazon-de-dutch/|title=Now you can visit Amazon.de in Dutch|date=2016-10-04|website=Amazon news|access-date=2016-10-19}}</ref><ref>{{Cite news|url=http://www.pb.pl/4640577,78781,amazon-jedna-noga-w-polsce|title=Amazon jedną nogą w Polsce|access-date=2016-10-19|archive-date=2016-10-19|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20161019144126/http://www.pb.pl/4640577,78781,amazon-jedna-noga-w-polsce|url-status=dead}}</ref><ref>{{Cite news|url=https://ecommercenews.eu/amazon-germany-now-available-turkish/|title=Amazon Germany now available in Turkish|date=November 10, 2016|access-date=February 20, 2017}}</ref>


==Subsidiaries ==
==Companies Owned ==
Amazon owns over 40 smaller companies, including [[Zappos]], [[Shopbop]], Diapers.com, Kiva Systems (now Amazon Robotics), [[Audible (store)|Audible]], [[Goodreads]], Teachstreet and [[IMDb]].<ref>{{cite web|url=http://www.amazon.jobs/team-category/subsidiaries|title=Amazon Jobs – Work for a Subsidiary|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20140801055637/http://www.amazon.jobs/team-category/subsidiaries|archive-date=August 1, 2014|url-status=dead|access-date=October 27, 2014}}</ref>
Amazon owns over 40 smaller companies, including [[Twitch (service)|Twitch]], [[Whole Foods Market]], [[Zappos]], [[Shopbop]], Diapers.com, Kiva Systems (now Amazon Robotics), [[Audible (store)|Audible]], [[Goodreads]], Teachstreet and [[IMDb]].<ref>{{cite web|url=http://www.amazon.jobs/team-category/subsidiaries|title=Amazon Jobs – Work for a Subsidiary|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20140801055637/http://www.amazon.jobs/team-category/subsidiaries|archive-date=August 1, 2014|url-status=dead|access-date=October 27, 2014}}</ref> Amazon.com makes money by letting other people sell things and taking a percentage of the price. Amazon also allows companies to advertise their products by paying to be listed as featured products.


== Other reading ==
== Other reading ==
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* {{cite book |title=[[The Everything Store: Jeff Bezos and the Age of Amazon]] |last=Stone |first=Brad |publisher=Little Brown and Co |year=2013 |isbn=978-0-316-21926-6 |location=New York |oclc=856249407 |author-link=Brad Stone (journalist)}}
* {{cite book |title=[[The Everything Store: Jeff Bezos and the Age of Amazon]] |last=Stone |first=Brad |publisher=Little Brown and Co |year=2013 |isbn=978-0-316-21926-6 |location=New York |oclc=856249407 |author-link=Brad Stone (journalist)}}
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Latest revision as of 06:14, 4 July 2024

Amazon.com, Inc.
Amazon
FormerlyCadabra, Inc. (1994–95)
Company typePublic
ISINUS0231351067
Industry
FoundedJuly 5, 1994; 30 years ago (1994-07-05)
Bellevue, Washington, U.S.
FounderJeff Bezos
Headquarters
Seattle, Washington and Arlington, Virginia
,
U.S.
Area served
Worldwide
Key people
Products
Services
RevenueIncrease US$386.064 billion (2020)
Increase US$22.9 billion (2020)
Increase US$21.331 billion (2020)
Total assetsIncrease US$321.2 billion (2020)
Total equityIncrease US$93.404 billion (2020)
Number of employees
Increase 1,298,000 (Dec. 2020)[1]
U.S.: 810,000 (Oct. 2020)[2]
Subsidiaries
Websiteamazon.com
Footnotes / references
[1][3][4][5][6][7]

Amazon.com, Inc., known as Amazon (/ˈæməˌzɒn/), is an American multinational technology company focusing on selling things online, cloud computing, online advertising, digital streaming, and artificial intelligence. It is considered to be one of the Big Five American technology companies, alongside Alphabet (parent company of Google), Apple, Meta and Microsoft.

Amazon was founded by Jeff Bezos from his garage in Bellevue, Washington, on July 5, 1994. It started selling books online. Now it sells many things online, so it is sometimes called The Everything Store. It has multiple subsidiaries including Amazon Web Services (cloud computing), Zoox (autonomous vehicles), Kuiper Systems (satellite Internet), and Amazon Lab126 (computer hardware R&D). The company owns Ring, Twitch, IMDb, and Whole Foods Market. Its acquisition of Whole Foods in August 2017 for US$13.4 billion substantially increased its footprint as a physical retailer.

Companies Owned

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Amazon owns over 40 smaller companies, including Twitch, Whole Foods Market, Zappos, Shopbop, Diapers.com, Kiva Systems (now Amazon Robotics), Audible, Goodreads, Teachstreet and IMDb.[8] Amazon.com makes money by letting other people sell things and taking a percentage of the price. Amazon also allows companies to advertise their products by paying to be listed as featured products.

Other reading

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  • Brandt, Richard L. (2011). One Click: Jeff Bezos and the Rise of Amazon.com. New York: Portfolio Penguin. ISBN 978-1-59184-375-7. Archived from the original on 2013-02-22. Retrieved 2018-08-31.
  • Daisey, Mike (2002). 21 Dog Years. Free Press. ISBN 0-7432-2580-5.
  • Friedman, Mara (2004). Amazon.com for Dummies. Wiley Publishing. ISBN 0-7645-5840-4.
  • Marcus, James (2004). Amazonia: Five Years at the Epicenter of the Dot.Com Juggernaut. W. W. Norton. ISBN 1-56584-870-5.
  • Spector, Robert (2000). Amazon.com – Get Big Fast: Inside the Revolutionary Business Model That Changed the World. HarperCollins. ISBN 0-06-662041-4.
  • Stone, Brad (2013). The Everything Store: Jeff Bezos and the Age of Amazon. New York: Little Brown and Co. ISBN 978-0-316-21926-6. OCLC 856249407.

References

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  1. ↑ 1.0 1.1 https://www.sec.gov/ix?doc=/Archives/edgar/data/1018724/000101872421000004/amzn-20201231.htm#i75de98b9097f40f3b5884e541f532421_73. Retrieved February 6, 2021.
  2. ↑ http://www.nytimes.com/2020/11/27/technology/pushed-by-pandemic-amazon-goes-on-a-hiring-spree-without-equal.html. Retrieved December 20, 2020.
  3. ↑ Annual report 2019. Seattle, Washington: Amazon. December 31, 2019. Archived from the original on February 26, 2020. Retrieved May 1, 2020.
  4. ↑ "Amazon.com, Inc. Common Stock (AMZN) Financials". www.nasdaq.com.
  5. ↑ "Form 10-K". Amazon.com. December 31, 2018. Archived from the original on April 20, 2019. Retrieved April 12, 2019.
  6. ↑ "California Secretary of State Business Search". Businesssearch.sos.ca.gov. Archived from the original on 2018-02-23. Retrieved 2019-10-02.
  7. ↑ "Amazon bought Whole Foods a year ago. Here's what has changed". Yahoo! Finance.
  8. ↑ "Amazon Jobs – Work for a Subsidiary". Archived from the original on August 1, 2014. Retrieved October 27, 2014.



Other websites

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Media related to Amazon.com at Wikimedia Commons


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