Amazon (company)
Amazon Corporation, known as Amazon (/ˈæməˌzɒn/), is an American multinational technology company focusing on e-commerce, 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.
 Logo since 2000 | |
 Doppler building, Amazon's headquarters in Seattle | |
| Amazon | |
| Formerly | Cadabra, Inc. (1994–95) |
| Company type | Public |
| ISIN | US0231351067 |
| Industry | |
| Founded | July 5, 1994 Bellevue, Washington, U.S. |
| Founder | Jeff Bezos |
| Headquarters | , U.S. |
Area served | Worldwide |
Key people |
|
| Products | |
| Services |
|
| Revenue |  US$386.064 billion (2020) |
| US$22.9 billion (2020) | |
| US$21.331 billion (2020) | |
| Total assets | US$321.2 billion (2020) |
| Total equity | US$93.404 billion (2020) |
Number of employees | 1,298,000 (Dec. 2020)[1] U.S.: 810,000 (Oct. 2020)[2] |
| Subsidiaries |
|
| Website | amazon |
| Footnotes / references [1][3][4][5][6][7] | |
Amazon was founded by Jeff Bezos from his garage in Bellevue, Washington, on July 5, 1994. Initially an online marketplace for books, it has expanded into a multitude of product categories, a strategy that has earned it the moniker 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). Its other subsidiaries include 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.
Subsidiaries
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 is primarily a retail site with a sales revenue model; Amazon takes a small percentage of the sale price of each item that is sold through its website while also allowing companies to advertise their products by paying to be listed as featured products.
Other reading
- 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.
@JJDCTemplate:JUAN.J DAVILA CAMARILLO
References
Other websites
Media related to Amazon.com at Wikimedia Commons
- Official website
- Amazon (company) companies grouped at OpenCorporates
- Business data for Amazon.com, Inc.: Google Finance
- Yahoo! Finance
- Reuters
- SEC filings
