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Amazon

Amazon.com, Inc. (AMZN), is a leading global Internet company and one of the most trafficked Internet retail destinations worldwide.

Amazon is one of the first companies to sell products deep into the long tail by housing them in numerous warehouses and distributing products from many partner companies. Amazon directly sells or acts as a platform for the sale of a broad range of products. These include books, music, videos, consumer electronics, clothing and household products. The majority of Amazon’s sales are products sold by Amazon, though many are from third-party sellers.

Amazon was founded in 1994 and is headquartered in Seattle, Washington. It has direct international operations in the United States, Canada, France, Germany, Japan, and the United Kingdom.

Since 2004, Amazon has begun to rapidly expand its web services arsenal. Products such as Amazon EC2 (Elastic Compute Cloud) and Amazon S3 (Simple Storage System), Amazon Route 53 have been large successes.

Some of Amazon’s recent acquisitions include Shopbop (2006), Abebooks (2008), Zappos (2009), LOVEFiLM (2011).

As of Q1 2011, Amazon has approximately 137 million active customers worldwide. It was also reported that there are 2 million merchants selling on Amazon equaling a third of the total listings. North America currently represents 55.4% of sales with the other 44.6% in the International market.

Recent Milestones

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  Amazon acquired Liquavista. (5/13/13)
  Posted 5/13/13 at 7:00pm via gigaom.com
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  Amazon acquired Screentech. (5/13/13)
  Posted 5/14/13 at 9:33pm via mercurynews.com
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  Amazon added Kadir Rathnavelu as Senior Product Manager. (5/1/13)
  Posted 5/4/13 at 7:28am
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  Amazon acquired Goodreads for $150M. (3/29/13)
  Posted 3/31/13 at 7:17pm via wsj.com
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  Amazon acquired Goodreads. (3/28/13)
  Posted 3/28/13 at 6:48pm via techcrunch.com
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  Amazon acquired IVONA Software. (1/24/13)
  Posted 1/24/13 at 9:02pm via techcrunch.com
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  Amazon acquired UpNext. (7/2/12)
  Posted 7/2/12 at 7:25pm via engadget.com
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  Amazon added Sumit Chugh as Product Manager. (6/25/12)
  Posted 4/8/13 at 8:59am
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  Amazon acquired LOVEFiLM for $2.5M. (6/15/12)
  Posted 1/21/11 at 7:05am via techcrunch.com
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  Amazon — Amazon Publishing Acquires Avalon Books (6/4/12)
  Posted 6/4/12 at 7:16pm via freshnews.com
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  Amazon acquired Kiva Systems for $775M. (3/19/12)
  Posted 3/19/12 at 5:53pm via venturebeat.com
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  Amazon acquired TeachStreet. (1/31/12)
  Posted 4/26/12 at 6:07pm via geekwire.com
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  Amazon acquired Quorus. (12/28/11)
  Posted 12/30/11 at 7:05pm via venturebeat.com
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  Amazon — Amazon To Invest $270 Million In New Distribution Centers In Virginia, Tennessee (12/22/11)
  Posted 12/22/11 at 5:00pm via techcrunch.com
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  Amazon — Amazon Invests In Turkish E-Commerce Startup Ciceksepeti (12/20/11)
  Posted 12/20/11 at 4:07am via techcrunch.com
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  Amazon invested in LivingSocial. (11/18/11)
  Posted 12/7/11 at 1:45pm via techcrunch.com

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1. Amazon buys screen tech from Samsung, introduces its own currency (mercurynews.com) []
2. Amazon acquires Samsung color display unit Liquavista (gigaom.com) []
3. Amazon Moves Toward Kindle Social Network with Goodreads (blogs.wsj.com) []
4. Amazon Acquires Social Reading Site Goodreads, Which Gives The Company A Social Advantage Over Apple (techcrunch.com) []
5. Amazon Gets Into Voice Recognition, Buys Ivona Software To Compete Against Apple’s Siri (techcrunch.com) []
6. Amazon reportedly acquires UpNext, 3D map wars begin in earnest (engadget.com) []
7. Amazon acquires LoveFilm, the Netflix of Europe (eu.techcrunch.com) []
8. Amazon buys Kiva Systems for $775M — prepare for even smarter warehouses (venturebeat.com) []
9. GeekWire (geekwire.com) []
10. Amazon acquires the talented team at shopping startup Quorus (venturebeat.com) []
11. Amazon Buys Lovefilm’s IPTV App Designer Pushbutton (paidcontent.org) []
12. Amazon Acquires UK-Based Online Book Retailer The Book Depository For International Expansion (techcrunch.com) []
13. Confirmed: Amazon Spends $545 Million On Diapers.com Parent Quidsi (techcrunch.com) []
14. Amazon Acquires Amie Street, But Not In A Good Way (techcrunch.com) []
15. Woot’s Deal Of The Day: Woot! — Amazon Buys It. Price? $110 Million (techcrunch.com) []
16. Amazon Said to Buy Touch Start-Up (nytimes.com) []
17. TechCrunch: Amazon Buys Zappos (techcrunch.com) []
18. Image Recognition Startup SnapTell Acquired by Amazon Subsidiary A9.com (techcrunch.com) []
19. Amazon Acquires Lexcycle (pcworld.com) []
20. Amazon Buys Casual Games Distributor Reflexive Entertainment (dmwmedia.com) []
21. Amazon Snaps Up Video Game Provider Reflexive (techcrunch.com) []
22. Amazon Acquires Shelfari: Moves To Corner Book-Centric Social Networks (techcrunch.com) []
23. Amazon Acquires Shelfari: Moves To Corner Book-Centric Social Networks (techcrunch.com) []
24. Amazon To Acquire AbeBooks, And With It A Stake In LibraryThing (techcrunch.com) []
25. Amazon Gets Some New Threads, Acquires Fabric.com (techcrunch.com) []
26. Amazon Strengthens Its Digital Hand With $300 Million Purchase of Audible (techcrunch.com) []
27. Amazon Unit Buys Without A Box (emii.com) []
28. Amazon.com Buys Brilliance Audio (encyclopedia.com) []
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30. Amazon acquires Madison-based Shopbop (wistechnology.com) []
31. Amazon Acquires CustomFlix (hackingnetflix.com) []
32. Amazon.com Acquires Mobipocket (drmwatch.com) []
33. Amazon Buys On Demand Player BookSurge (internetnews.com) []
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35. Amazon's Accept.Com Deal Cost About $101.7 Million (community.seattletimes.nwsource.com) []
36. Amazon spends $250M for Alexa Internet (sanfrancisco.bizjournals.com) []
37. Amazon.Com Acquires Exchange.Com (multivu.prnewswire.com) []
38. LEADING INTERNET BOOKSELLER AMAZON.COM ACQUIRES U.K.-BASED INTERNET BOOKSTORE BOOKPAGES LTD. (prnewswire.co.uk) []
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41. Songza.com Closes Financing Round (finsmes.com) [edit]
42. ParAccel Receives Additional Investment from Amazon.com (finsmes.com) [edit]
43. Animoto In It To Win It, Takes $25 Million In Third Venture Round (techcrunch.com) [edit]
44. LivingSocial Files To Authorize Up To $565M In Series E [Update: And Raises $400M] (techcrunch.com) [edit]
45. Cloud Archiving Startup Sonian Raises $9 Million From Amazon, Webroot And Others (techcrunchit.com) [edit]
46. LivingSocial Confirms $175 Million Amazon Investment (techcrunch.com) [edit]
47. Cirtas Completes $10 Million Series A (cirtas.com) [edit]
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49. Animoto Is Already Cash-Flow Positive, Raises Another Round To Go To 11 (techcrunch.com) [edit]
50. BookTour Raises $350,000 From Amazon (paidcontent.org) [edit]
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52. Amazon Invests In Online Ad Optimization Firm Yieldex (paidcontent.org) [edit]
53. ELASTRA Closes $12 Million In Series B Financing (elastra.com) [edit]
54. Engine Yard takes $15mill Series B Round from NEA, Amazon and Benchmark (brainspl.at) [edit]
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61. Inside the Silicon Valley Money Machine KLEINER PERKINS FUNDED AOL, AMAZON, SUN, AND NETSCAPE. HERE'S HOW TECH'S MOST POWERFUL FINANCIERS WORK, PLUS THE SECRETS THEY DON'T WANT YOU TO KNOW. (money.cnn.com) []
How Many Kindle Books Has Amazon Sold? About 22 Million This Year (businessinsider.com) []
Amazon ups investment in China online shopping site (uk.reuters.com) []
Amazon Throws LivingSocial A Big Bone With $10 Discount (techcrunch.com) []
Amazon’s Market Cap Passes $100 Billion (techcrunch.com) []
Amazon Invests In Turkish E-Commerce Startup Ciceksepeti (techcrunch.com) []
Amazon To Invest $270 Million In New Distribution Centers In Virginia, Tennessee (techcrunch.com) []
Amazon Publishing Acquires Avalon Books (freshnews.com) []