Amazon (company)
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Amazon Corporation, known as Amazon (/ˈæməˌzɒn/), is an American multinational technology company focusing on e-commerce, 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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 Logo since 2000 | |
 Doppler building, Amazon's headquarters in Seattle | |
| Amazon | |
| Formerly | Cadabra, Inc. (1994–95) |
| Company type | Public |
| ISIN | US0231351067 |
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| Founded | July 5, 1994; 29 years ago (1994-07-05) Bellevue, Washington, U.S. |
| Founder | Jeff Bezos |
| Headquarters | , U.S. |
Area served | Worldwide |
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| Revenue |  US$386.064 billion (2020) |
| US$22.9 billion (2020) | |
| US$21.331 billion (2020) | |
| Total assets | US$321.2 billion (2020) |
| Total equity | US$93.404 billion (2020) |
Number of employees | 1,298,000 (Dec. 2020)[1] U.S.: 810,000 (Oct. 2020)[2] |
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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. Initially an online marketplace for books, it has expanded into a multitude of product categories, a strategy that has earned it the moniker 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). Its other subsidiaries include 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.