2. Company Profile
• Amazon.com, Inc. is an American international electronic
commerce company with headquarters in Seattle, Washington.
• It is the largest Internet-based company in the United States.
• Amazon.com started as an online bookstore, but soon diversified,
selling DVDs, VHSs, CDs, video and MP3 downloads/streaming,
software, video games, electronics, apparel, furniture, food, toys,
and jewellery.
• The company also produces consumer electronics like - Amazon
Kindle e-book readers, Kindle Fire tablets, Fire TV and Fire Phone,
amazon is also a major provider of cloud computing services.
3. History
• Jeff Bezos left his employment as vice-president of D. E. Shaw &
Co., a Wall Street firm, and moved to Seattle. He began to work
on a business plan for what would eventually become
Amazon.com.
• The company was founded in 1994.
4. Products
• Amazon.com
• Amazon Web Services
• Amazon Kindle
• Amazon Web store
• Amazon Music - free Amazon Music app
• Amazon Fresh
• IMDb
5. Amazon Web Services
• Amazon Web Services is a collection of remote computing
services, also called web services that together make up a cloud
computing platform by Amazon.com since 2006.
• Official Webpage: aws.amazon.com
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7. Amazon Kindle
• The Amazon Kindle is a series of e-book readers designed and
marketed by Amazon.com.
• Amazon Kindle devices enable users to shop for,
download, browse, and read e-books, newspapers,
magazines, blogs, and other digital media via
wireless networking.
8. Amazon web Store
• Take your business to a whole new level with your own customized
e-commerce site, on your own domain—backed by Amazon
technology and expertise.
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10. Amazon Fresh
• Amazon Fresh is a subsidiary of the Amazon.com American e-commerce
company in Seattle, Washington.
• It revived the business model of ordering groceries online for home
delivery first popularized by such companies as HomeGrocer.com and
Webvan in the late 1990s.
• Amazon Fresh initially offered home grocery delivery to residents of the
Seattle in an invitation-only beta test in August 2007.
• On June 10, 2013, Amazon Fresh expanded to portions of the Los Angeles
area, offering "free same-day and early morning delivery on orders over
$35.
• The service became available in San Francisco on December 12, 2013.
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12. IMDb – Internet Movie Database
• It is an online database of information related to films, television
programs, and video games.
• Launched in 1990, the company was incorporated in the UK as
Internet Movie Database Ltd in 1996. In 1998, it became a
subsidiary of Amazon.com.
• As of October 23, 2014, IMDb had 30,52,795 titles (includes
episodes) and 61,80,073 personalities in its database, as well as 56
million registered users and is an Alexa Top 50 site.