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Amazon.com

Amazon.com
Company NameAmazon.com, Inc.
Company TypePublic
Traded AsNasdaq - AMZN
NASDAQ-100 Component
S&P 500 Component
Foundation1994
FounderJeff Bezos
LocationSeattle, Washington, U.S.
Area ServedWorldwide
Key PeopleJeff Bezos
(Chairman, President & CEO)
IndustryOnline shopping
Cloud computing
ProductsAmazon.com
Zappos
Amazon Studios
Amazon Web Services
A2Z Development
A9.com
Alexa Internet
Audible.com
Endless.com
IMDb
Kindle
Lovefilm
Woot
Revenue(+) US$ 34.204 billion (2010)
Operating Income(+) US$ 1.406 billion (2010)
Net Income(+) US$ 1.152 billion (2010)
Assets(+) US$ 18.797 billion (2010)
Equity(+) US$ 6.864 billion (2010)
Num Employees33,700 (2010)
Urlamazon.com
Website TypeE-commerce
LanguageEnglish, Japanese, German, French, Brazilian Portuguese, Italian & Chinese
AdvertisingWeb banners
Videos
Launch Date1995
Alexa17 ( )

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Amazon.com, Inc. (Nasdaq - AMZN) is a US-based multinational electronic commerce company. Headquartered in Seattle, Washington, it is the world's largest online retailer, with nearly three times the Internet sales revenue of the runner up, Staples, Inc., as of January 2010.

Jeff Bezos founded Amazon.com, Inc. in 1994 and the site went online in 1995. The company was originally named Cadabra, Inc., but the name was changed when it was discovered that people sometimes heard the name as "Cadaver". The name Amazon.com was chosen because the Amazon River is one of the largest rivers in the world and so the name suggests large size, and also in part because it starts with "A" and therefore would show up near the beginning of alphabetical lists. Amazon.com started as an online bookstore, but soon diversified, selling DVDs, CDs, MP3 downloads, computer software, video games, electronics, apparel, furniture, food, and toys. Amazon has established separate websites in Canada, the United Kingdom, Germany, France, Italy, Austria, Japan, and China. It also provides international shipping to certain countries for some of its products.

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4Play Recordings Ltd presents DJ DIPS - THIS DJ Featuring MC Rax, Menis, RKZ, Horizon & Swami Baracus Five of the finest British Asian MCs have been brought together to create a stomping fusion of East and West This DJ. Already getting immense play on Nihals BBC Radio One Desi Beats show, This DJ is produced by popular Asian music producer and DJ, DJ Dips and features the vocals of one of Indias biggest female singers Miss Pooja. DJ Dips has been DJing since he was eleven and has been building his presence in the Asian roadshow and club circuit, DJing at venues such as Ministry of Sound, Gatecrasher and across Europe and North America. As part of Ominous DJs he released two very successful albums in the Asian market and in 2008 the much in demand DJ started work on his solo project. Last year, DJ Dips released his debut solo Bhangra (North Indian music) album Stand Up Vol. 1, the album delivered the longest running number one single of the year on the BBC Asian Network chart Gerra De De. This DJ is a mash up of Bhangra and grime. Taking the vocal from the number one hit Gerra De De, DJ Dips has given the track a makeover, complete with a hard hitting beat and five talented MCs, making it almost unrecognisable. MC Rax, Menis, RKZ, Horizon and Swami Baracus, have each added their individual lyrical twists to this funky grime inspired track, which is sure to be a club banger. This DJ will be releasing via iTunes, Amazon, Play.com and all other good music stores on 1st March <b>...</b>
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Traders Grow Grim Toward Amazon.com As Earnings Approach - Forbes (blog) Tweet this news
Forbes (blog)---Amazon.com- (AMZN) has received a black eye in the media recently as the company's Web Services unit has been down since Wednesday night, taking out a chunk of the Internet in the process. While the company is slowly making progress o - Date : Fri, 22 Apr 2011 16:43:54 GMT+00:00
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USA Market News---Amazon.com- Inc. NASDAQ:AMZN publicized that the technical problems which had infected its Web services business could not be resolved completely, but the company hoped that the concern to be repaired later Friday. Amazon, the online ser - Date : Sat, 23 Apr 2011 10:30:03 GMT+00:00
Kindle app updated for Android Honeycomb tablets - CNET (blog) Tweet this news
CNET (blog)---Amazon.com- has updated its Kindle Android app with features designed to tap into the Honeycomb interface currently found on the Motorola Xoom and T-Mobile's LG G-Slate. Available now at Amazon's Appstore for Android, Kindle for An - Date : Fri, 22 Apr 2011 16:21:23 GMT+00:00
Will Netflix's 1Q results earn investor applause? - BusinessWeek Tweet this news
BusinessWeek--Perhaps the most formidable new entrant is -Amazon.com- Inc., which includes a free video streaming feature to online shoppers who pay $79 annually for discount shipping. Amazon's 2-month-old streaming service so far only offers a fract - Date : Sat, 23 Apr 2011 11:44:16 GMT+00:00
Amazon Top Five (4/22) - GameZone Tweet this news
GameZone--While the mainstream influence and success of games like Just Dance 2 and Zumba Fitness are probably keeping Ubisoft and Majesco in business, this week's -Amazon.com- top five is refreshing. Yes, Just Dance 2 couldn't be ... - Date : Fri, 22 Apr 2011 23:52:33 GMT+00:00
HTC Thunderbolt Costs $129.99 from Amazon Until April 25 - eWeek Tweet this news
eWeek---Amazon.com's- wireless unit is selling the HTC Thunderbolt Android smartphone for $129.99, or nearly half off the $249.99 retail price Verizon Wireless began selling the 4G handset for in March. The catch is that interested buyers have until - Date : Fri, 22 Apr 2011 11:51:39 GMT+00:00
Amazon, eBay wage costly battle for shoppers - Reuters Tweet this news
Reuters--NEW YORK (Reuters) - When -Amazon.com- and eBay report quarterly results next week, investors will try to determine how well the e-commerce rivals' expensive fight for shoppers is paying off. They will want to see if revenue is growing fast - Date : Fri, 22 Apr 2011 07:00:38 GMT+00:00
Amazon launches German-language Kindle book store - BusinessWeek Tweet this news
BusinessWeek---Amazon.com- Inc. said Thursday that it has launched its Kindle e-book store in Germany, bolstering a catalog of German-language books that it had already offered to customers of its US and UK websites. The store launched with more than 2500 - Date : Fri, 22 Apr 2011 11:45:18 GMT+00:00
Kindle Library Lending - WALA-TV FOX10 Tweet this news
WALA-TV FOX10--Wednesday, -Amazon.com- announced that thousands of electronic books would soon be available for its Kindle. The company is working with OverDrive Inc., which runs e-book systems for public libraries. Thanks to the intergration, users will - Date : Fri, 22 Apr 2011 04:01:02 GMT+00:00
Music industry should unlock cloud storage - San Jose Business Journal Tweet this news
San Jose Business Journal--In the case of a new cloud storage service introduced by -Amazon.com- and other services reportedly in the works from Apple, Google and Hewlett-Packard, the gravy train may be over for the record labels. But none of these servic - Date : Fri, 22 Apr 2011 10:02:35 GMT+00:00

Amazon.com

People
Jeff Bezos, Tony Hsieh, Brian Krueger, Brian McBride, Tom Szkutak, Brian Valentine, Werner Vogels, Gregg Zehr
Former: Rick Dalzell, Ram Shriram
Products and services
WebsitesA9.com, AbeBooks, Alexa (Ranking, Toolbar, Web Services), Amapedia, Amazon China, Askville, CDNOW, Digital Photography Review, Endless.com, Fresh, IMDb (Box Office Mojo), Marketplace, Payments, PlanetAll, Shelfari, Zappos.com, Woot.com
Web ServicesAAWS, CloudFront, EC2, FPS, Mechanical Turk, S3, SimpleDB, RDS, SQS, VPC
DigitalAudible.com, Kindle, Lexcycle, Mobipocket, MP3, Reflexive Entertainment, Video on Demand
Technology1-Click, aStore, Carbonado, Dynamo, Gurupa, Lab126, Obidos
Investments43 Things, Amie Street (Songza), LibraryThing, Sellaband
OtherASIN, Breakthrough Novel Award, Fishbowl, Statistically Improbable Phrases, Vine

Companies of the NASDAQ-100 index

Activision Blizzard * Adobe * Akamai * Altera * Amazon.com * Amgen * Apollo Group * Apple * Applied Materials * Autodesk * ADP * Baidu * Bed Bath & Beyond * Biogen Idec * BMC Software * Broadcom * C.H. Robinson * CA, Inc. * Celgene * Cephalon * Cerner * Check Point * Cintas * Cisco * Citrix * Cognizant * Comcast * Costco * Dell * Dentsply * DirecTV * Dish Network * eBay * Electronic Arts * Expedia * Expeditors International * Express Scripts * Fastenal * First Solar * Fiserv * Flextronics * FLIR Systems * Foster Wheeler * Garmin * Genzyme * Gilead Sciences * Google * Henry Schein * Hologic * Illumina * Infosys * Intel * Intuit * Intuitive Surgical * J.B. Hunt * Joy Global * KLA-Tencor * Lam Research * Liberty Media * Life Technologies * Linear Technology * Logitech * Marvell * Mattel * Maxim Integrated Products * Microchip Technology * Microsoft * Millicom * Mylan * NetApp * News Corporation * NII * Nvidia * O'Reilly Automotive * Oracle * Paccar * Patterson Companies * Paychex * Priceline.com * Qiagen * Qualcomm * Research In Motion * Ross Stores * SanDisk * Seagate * Sears * Sigma-Aldrich * Staples * Starbucks * Stericycle * Symantec * Teva Pharmaceutical * Urban Outfitters * VeriSign * Vertex Pharmaceuticals * Virgin Media * Vodafone * Warner Chilcott * Wynn Resorts * Xilinx * Yahoo!

Seattle-based Corporations (within the Seattle metropolitan area)

Seattle and SeaTac-based Fortune 1000 CorporationsAmazon.com (#100), Starbucks (#241), Nordstrom (#270), Expeditors International, Alaska Airlines
Puget Sound-based Fortune 1000 CorporationsCompanies listed above, plus: Costco Wholesale (#25), Microsoft (#36), Paccar (#282), Weyerhaeuser (#379), Puget Sound Energy, Expedia
Major Seattle- and Puget Sound-based non-public or externally owned corporationsBig Fish Games, Boeing, Eddie Bauer, Jones Soda, Nintendo of America, QFC, REI, Safeco, T-Mobile USA, WestFarm Foods



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