Amazon.com, Inc.
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amazon.com homepage
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| Type of business | Public |
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E-commerce |
| Available in | English, French, German, Spanish, Italian, Chinese, Japanese, Brazilian Portuguese, Dutch, Polish |
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NASDAQ: AMZN NASDAQ-100 Component S&P 100 Component S&P 500 Component |
| Founded | July 5, 1994 (as Cadabra) Seattle, Washington, U.S. |
| Headquarters | Seattle, Washington, U.S |
| Area served | Worldwide |
| Owner | Jeff Bezos (17.1%) |
| Founder(s) | Jeff Bezos |
| Key people | Jeff Bezos (Chairman, President, and CEO) Werner Vogels (CTO) Andrew Jassy (CEO, AWS) Jeff Wilke (CEO, Consumer) |
| Industry | Internet |
| Products | Appstore, AWS, The Book Depository, comiXology, Game Studios, Video, Instant Video UK, Instant Video German, Audible, Kindle, Fire, Lab126, Studios, Twitch.tv, Woot, Echo, MyHabit.com(closed), Shopbop,Askville |
| Services | Online shopping, web hosting, content distribution |
| Revenue |  US$107 billion (2015) |
| Operating income | US$2.233 billion (2015) |
| Net income | US$596 million (2015) |
| Total assets | US$65.444 billion (2015) |
| Total equity | US$13.384 billion (2015) |
| Employees | 268,900 (July 2016) |
| Subsidiaries | A9.com, Amazon Web Services, Alexa Internet, Audible.com, comiXology, Digital Photography Review, Goodreads, Internet Movie Database, Junglee.com, Twitch.tv, Zappos |
| Slogan(s) | Work hard, have fun, make history |
| Website |
amazon Various national sites |
| Alexa rank |
 8 (Global, December 2016[update])
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| Advertising | Web banners, videos |
| Launched | July 5, 1994 |
| Written in | C++ and Java |
Amazon.com (/ˈæməzɒn/ or /ˈæməzən/), often simply Amazon, is an American electronic commerce and cloud computing company, founded on July 5, 1994, by Jeff Bezos and based in Seattle, Washington. It is the largest Internet-based retailer in the world by total sales and market capitalization. Amazon.com started as an online bookstore, later diversifying to sell DVDs, Blu-rays, CDs, video downloads/streaming, MP3 downloads/streaming, audiobook downloads/streaming, software, video games, electronics, apparel, furniture, food, toys, and jewelry. The company also produces consumer electronics—notably, Amazon Kindle e-readers, Fire tablets, and Fire TV—and is the world's largest provider of cloud infrastructure services (IaaS). Amazon also sells certain low-end products like USB cables under its in-house brand AmazonBasics.
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