AMAZON.COM, INC.

Amazon.com, Inc. is an American electronic commerce and cloud computing company that was founded on July 5, 1994, by jeff Bezos and is 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 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 products consumer electronics notably, Kindle e-readers, fire tablets, Fire TV and Echo and is the world’s largest provider of cloud infrastructure services, Amazon also sells certain low-end products like USB cables under its in-house brand Amazon Basics.

Amazon has separate retail websites for the United States, the United Kingdom and Ireland, France, Canada, Germany, Italy, Spain, Netherlands, Australia, Brazil, Japan, China, India, and Mexico, Amazon also offers international shipping to certain other countries for some of its products. In 2016, Dutch, Polish, and Turkish language versions of the German Amazon website were launched.

In 2015, Amazon surpassed Walmart as the most valuable retailer in the United States by market capitalization. Amazon is the fourth most valuable public company in the world. The largest internet company by revenue in the world and the eighth largest employer in the United States. In 2017 Amazon announced their plans to acquire whole foods market for 13.4 billion dollars by the end of the year, vastly increasing Amazon’s Presence as a physical retailer. The acquisition was interpreted as a direct attempt to challenge Walmart as a physical store.

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