| Public | AMZN |
| Website | amazon.com |
| Category | eCommerce |
| Phone | (206) 266-1000 |
| Employees | |
| Founded | 1994 |
| Total | $1.87B |
| Woot, 6/10 | $110M |
| Touchco, 2/10 | |
| TextPayMe, 2010 | $5M |
| Zappos, 7/09 | $1.2B |
| SnapTell, 6/09 | |
| Lexcycle, 4/09 | |
| Reflexive Entertaiment, 10/08 | |
| Reflexive Entertainment, 10/08 | |
| Shelfari, 8/08 | |
| Tastemakers, 8/08 | |
| AbeBooks, 8/08 | |
| Fabric.com, 6/08 | |
| Audible, 1/08 | $300M |
| Without A Box, 1/08 | |
| Brilliance Audio, 5/07 | |
| dpreview, 5/07 | |
| Alexa, 5/99 | $250M |
| IMDB, 1998 |
| Engine Yard | 10/09 |
| Animoto | 6/09 |
| BookTour | 4/09 |
| Foodista | 4/09 |
| Yieldex | 2/09 |
| Elastra | 8/08 |
| Engine Yard | 7/08 |
| The Talk Market | 6/08 |
| Bill Me Later | 12/07 |
| Amie Street | 8/07 |
| Shelfari | 2/07 |
| Wikia | 12/06 |
| delicious | 4/05 |
| 43 Things, The Robot Co-op | 11/04 |
Amazon.com Inc (AMZN) is a leading global Internet company and one of the most trafficked Internet retail destinations worldwide. Amazon directly sells, or acts as a platform for the sale of, a very broad range of products, including books, music, videos, consumer electronics, clothing and household products. The majority of Amazon’s sales are products sold by Amazon, with the remaining amount from third-party sellers. Through year-end 2006, Amazon had approximately 64 million active customers worldwide. In 2006, 55% of Amazon’s revenue was generated in North America and 45% was generated by its International segment. Within North America, Media was 61% of total sales, Electronics & General Merchandise (EGM) was 34% of the total, and Other revenue was 4%. Within its International segment, Media was 72% of sales and EGM was 28% of sales. Amazon has direct operations in the United States, Canada, France, Germany, Japan, and the United Kingdom. Amazon was founded in 1994 and is headquartered in Seattle, Washington.
Amazon is an online shopping website with one of the largest product supplies online. It was one of the first companies to sell products deep into the long tail by housing them all in numerous warehouses and distributing products from many partner companies.
Since 2004 Amazon has begun rapidly expanding its web services arsenal. Products such as Amazon EC2 (Elastic Compute Cloud) and Amazon S3 (Simple Storage System), have been large success.
Prior to these services Amazon had survived on a low margin business model that relied on enormous volume in product sales. Amazon is looking to these services to provide a healthier profit margin.
| Amazon BookSurge |
| Amazon EBS |
| Amazon EC2 |
| Amazon Elastic MapReduce |
| Amazon Fresh |
| Amazon Kindle |
| Amazon Kindle 2 |
| Amazon Kindle DX |
| Amazon S3 |
| Amazon Unbox |
| Amazon Video on Demand |
| Amazon Web Services |
| Kindle for iPhone |
| Mechanical Turk |
