Wikipedia - Amazon
Amazon.com, Inc.[6] (/ˈæməzɒn/), is an American multinational technology company based in Seattle, Washington that focuses on e-commerce, cloud computing, digital streaming and artificial intelligence. It is considered one of the Big Four technology companies along with Google, Apple and Facebook.[7][8][9]
Amazon is known for its disruption of well-established industries through technological innovation and mass scale.[10][11][12] It is the world's largest e-commerce marketplace, AI assistant provider, and cloud computingplatform[13] as measured by revenue and market capitalization.[14] Amazon is the largest Internet company by revenuein the world.[15] It is the second largest employer in the United States[16] and one of the world's most valuable companies. Amazon is the second largest technology company by revenue.
Amazon was founded by Jeff Bezos on July 5, 1994 in Bellevue, Washington. The company initially started as an online marketplace for books but later expanded to sell electronics, software, video games, apparel, furniture, food, toys, and jewelry. In 2015, Amazon surpassed Walmart as the most valuable retailer in the United States by market capitalization.[17] In 2017, Amazon acquired Whole Foods Market for $13.4 billion, which vastly increased Amazon's presence as a brick-and-mortar retailer.[18] In 2018, Bezos announced that its two-day delivery service, Amazon Prime, had surpassed 100 million subscribers worldwide.[19][20]
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