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| − | '''Amazon.com, Inc.''' (Amazon.com) is an e-commerce company which | + | '''Amazon.com, Inc.''' (Amazon.com) is an e-commerce company which retails products through third parties on its websites, and which additionally provides web services for developers. As one of the first major companies to sell products online, it began as an online bookstore, but soon diversified its product lines considerably. The Amazon Web Services division provides services based primarily on cloud computing. One of the hottest stocks of the 1990's, Amazon survived the burst of the dot-com bubble and has shown a recovery in profits since 2003. |
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Revision as of 21:53, 5 June 2008
Amazon.com, Inc. (Amazon.com) is an e-commerce company which retails products through third parties on its websites, and which additionally provides web services for developers. As one of the first major companies to sell products online, it began as an online bookstore, but soon diversified its product lines considerably. The Amazon Web Services division provides services based primarily on cloud computing. One of the hottest stocks of the 1990's, Amazon survived the burst of the dot-com bubble and has shown a recovery in profits since 2003.
Summary
- Industry: Consumer Internet, Software, Software Development & Design
- Ownership: Public
- Ranking: Fortune 500
- Revenues: $10.7 Billion
- Employees: 13,900
- NASDAQ: AMZN
Site Statistics
- Monthly Unique Visitors: 52,327,360
- Site Rank: 11
People
- Jeff Bezos
- Co-Founder, Chairman & CEO
- Tom Szkutak
- SVP & CFO
- Jeffrey Blackburn
- SVP, Business Development
- Sebastian J. Gunningham
- SVP, Merchant Services
- Andrew Jassy
- SVP, Web Services
Acquisitions
Competitors
- Revenue: $91.4 Billion
- Revenue: $6 Billion
- Revenue: $788.2 Million
