2. Amazon.com, Inc. (NASDAQ: AMZN) is an American-
based multinational electronic commerce company.
July 6, 1994
Headquartered ---Seattle, Washington.
It is the largest Internet-based retailer in the United States.
Presence across three locations in India (Bangalore,
Hyderabad, Chennai)
3. Jeff Bezos founded
Amazon.com, Inc. in 1994 and
launched it online In 1995. It
started as an online bookstore.
With 2.5 million titles, it
became the “Earth’s Biggest
Bookstore”.
4. “To leverage technology and the expertise of invaluable
employees and to provide customer with the best shopping
experience on the internet.”
“To be earth’s most
customer centric company;
to build a place where
people can come to find
and discover anything they
might want to buy online.”
5. o Books
o Movie, Music and Games
o Digital Download
o Kindle
o Computer And Office
o Electronics
o Home and garden
o Grocery, Health and beauty
o Toys, kids and baby
o Clothing, Shoes and jewelry
o Sports and outdoors
o Tools, Auto and industrial
6. o Amazon has separate
retail websites for United
States, United Kingdom &
Ireland, France, Canada,
Germany, Italy, Spain, the
Netherlands, Australia,
Brazil, Japan, China, India
and Mexico.
o Amazon also offers
international shipping to
certain other countries
for some of its products.
o In 2011, it had professed
an intention to launch its
websites in Poland and
Sweden.
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o A9.com
o AmazonWeb
Services
o Alexa Internet
o Audible.com
o comiXology
o Digital Photography
Review
o Goodreads
o InternetMovie
Database
o Junglee.com
o Twitch
o Zappos
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11. o It has world’s largest Linux Database, with a total
capacity of 7.8 terabytes, 18.5 TB and 24.7 TB
respectively.
o The Central Amazon Data warehouse is made up of
28 Hewelett Packard server, with four CPUs per
node, running Oracle 9i database software.
o The architecture handles millions of back-end
operations and third party seller queries.
12. • Over the 2000-2010 decade, Amazon has developed a
customer base of around 30 million people.
• Amazon.com is primarily a retail site with a sales
revenue model.
• Amazon makes its money by taking a small percentage
of the sale price of each item that is sold through its
website.
• Amazon also allows companies to advertise their
products by paying to be listed as featured products.
14. • Sales and Use Taxes
Amazon.com has been criticized for collecting sales taxes from customers
in only the following 25 U.S. states
• Poor working conditions
In 2011 it was publicized that at the Breinigsville, Pennsylvania
warehouse, workers had to carry out work in 100 °F (38 °C) heat,
resulting in employees becoming extremely uncomfortable and
suffering from dehydration and collapse.
