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Amazon.com
American company
Category:
History & Society
- Date:
- 1994 - present
- Ticker:
- AMZN
- Share price:
- $159.12 (mkt close, Jan. 26, 2024)
- Market cap:
- $1.64 tr.
- Annual revenue:
- $554.03 bil.
- Earnings per share (prev. year):
- $2.0
- Sector:
- Trade & Services
- Industry:
- Internet Commerce
- CEO:
- Andrew R. Jassy
- Headquarters:
- Seattle
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Jan. 23, 2024, 5:45 PM ET (AP)
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Amazon.com is a Seattle, Washington–based e-commerce and cloud computing giant whose humble beginnings can be traced to founder Jeff Bezos’s garage, where he began selling books on the still-emerging World Wide Web. Although the company is best known among consumers for its retail platform, a majority of its operating profits (as of 2024) come from its cloud computing division, Amazon Web Services (AWS). Amazon is also emerging as a leader in generative artificial intelligence (GenAI) with its Bedrock platform. On the media side, Amazon is in the thick of the so-called “streaming wars,” with its Prime Video entertainment and sports ...(100 of 1436 words)