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About Amazon.com:

Amazon.com, Inc. is an American-based multinational electronic commerce company. Headquartered in Seattle, Washington, it is America’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 launched it online in 1995. It started as an online bookstore, but soon diversified to product lines of VHS, DVD, music CDs and MP3s, computer software, video games, electronics, apparel, furniture, food, toys, and so on. Amazon has established separate websites in Canada, the United Kingdom, Germany, France, Japan, and China. It also provides international shipping to certain countries for some of its products.

On January 15, 2009, a survey published by Verdict Research found that Amazon was the UK’s favorite music and video retailer, and came third in overall retail rankings.

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Other Information

• Type : Public (NASDAQ: AMZN)
• Founded : 1994
• Founder : Jeffrey P. Bezos
• Headquarters : Seattle, Washington, USA
• Area served : Worldwide
• Key people :
  • Jeffrey P. Bezos, (Chairman, CEO, & President)
  • Tom Szkutak, (CFO)
• Industry : Retail
• Products : Amazon.com, A9.com, Alexa Internet, IMDb, Kindle, Amazon Web Services, dpreview.com, Javari.co.uk, A2Z Development
• Type of site : e-commerce
• Advertising : web banners and videos

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