Amazon (company)
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.
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| Formerly | Cadabra, Inc. (1994–95) |
| Company type | Public |
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| Headquarters | , U.S. |
Area served | Worldwide |
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| Total equity |  US$93.404 billion (2020) |
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| Website | amazon |
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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.
On July 30, 2025, Amazon will pay the New York Times up to $25 million a year for the rights to its journalism content for AI model training, reports The Wall Street Journal. The Times will allow Amazon to use content from its daily journalism, NYT Cooking, and The Athletic for AI-related uses as part of the agreement.[8]
Companies owned
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.[9] 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
- Brandt, Richard L.. One Click: Jeff Bezos and the Rise of Amazon.com (2011). New York: Portfolio Penguin. ISBN 978-1-59184-375-7. Retrieved 2018-08-31.
- Daisey, Mike. 21 Dog Years (2002)Free Press. ISBN 0-7432-2580-5.
- Friedman, Mara. Amazon.com for Dummies (2004)Wiley Publishing. ISBN 0-7645-5840-4.
- Marcus, James. Amazonia: Five Years at the Epicenter of the Dot.Com Juggernaut (2004)W. W. Norton. ISBN 1-56584-870-5.
- Spector, Robert. Amazon.com – Get Big Fast: Inside the Revolutionary Business Model That Changed the World (2000)HarperCollins. ISBN 0-06-662041-4.
- Stone, Brad. The Everything Store: Jeff Bezos and the Age of Amazon (2013). New York: Little Brown and Co. ISBN 978-0-316-21926-6. OCLC 856249407.
Amazon (company) Media
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Jeff Bezos's home in Bellevue, Washington, where the company was founded in 1994
The new logo of Amazon, first revealed on April 15, 2024 on Amazon Live FAST channel promo on YouTube. It has slightly different wordmark and smile compared to the 2000–2024 logo, where it used the custom font named Amazon Ember Modern.
Amazon Marketplaces worldwide
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Amazon Fresh store in Sevenoaks, United Kingdom
Kindle Fire tablet HD 8 Plusの背面。
Whole Foods Market store in Ann Arbor, Michigan
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References
- ↑ 1.0 1.1 https://www.sec.gov/ix?doc=/Archives/edgar/data/1018724/000101872421000004/amzn-20201231.htm#i75de98b9097f40f3b5884e541f532421_73. Retrieved February 6, 2021.
- ↑ Annual report 2019 (December 31, 2019). Seattle, Washington: Amazon. Retrieved May 1, 2020.
- ↑ Amazon.com, Inc. Common Stock (AMZN) Financials. www.nasdaq.com.
- ↑ Form 10-K. Amazon.com (December 31, 2018). Retrieved April 12, 2019.
- ↑ California Secretary of State Business Search. Businesssearch.sos.ca.gov. Retrieved 2019-10-02.
- ↑ Amazon bought Whole Foods a year ago. Here's what has changedYahoo! Finance.
- ↑ http://www.nytimes.com/2020/11/27/technology/pushed-by-pandemic-amazon-goes-on-a-hiring-spree-without-equal.html. Retrieved December 20, 2020.
- ↑ Reyner, Solange. Amazon to Pay NY Times Up to $25M Yearly in AI Deal. WZRR (July 30, 2025). Retrieved July 31, 2025.[dead link]
- ↑ Amazon Jobs – Work for a Subsidiary. Retrieved October 27, 2014.
Other websites
Media related to Amazon.com at Wikimedia Commons
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- Amazon (company) companies grouped at OpenCorporates
- Business data for Amazon.com, Inc.: Google Finance
- Yahoo! Finance
- Reuters
- SEC filings
