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Amazon announced that e-book sales for its Kindle reader outnumbered sales of hardcover books for the first time ever. [115] 2011: January: Acquisitions, International: Amazon acquires Lovefilm, a DVD rental service known as the Netflix of Europe. [116] 2011: February 16: Competition: Borders, outcompeted by Amazon, applies for Chapter 11 ...
Amazon websites are country-specific (for example, amazon.com for the US and amazon.co.uk for UK) though some offer international shipping. [51] Visits to amazon.com grew from 615 million annual visitors in 2008, [52] to more than 2 billion per month in 2022. [citation needed] The e-commerce platform is the 12th most visited website in the ...
Amazon logo The Amazon Spheres, part of the Amazon headquarters campus in Seattle. Amazon.com, Inc. is an American conglomerate headquartered in Seattle, Washington.Founded by Jeff Bezos on July 5, 1994, as an online bookstore, Amazon went public after an initial public offering on May 15, 1997, during the midst of the dot-com bubble. [1]
Jeffrey Preston Bezos (/ ˈ b eɪ z oʊ s / BAY-zohss; [2] né Jorgensen; born January 12, 1964) is an American businessman best known as the founder, executive chairman, and former president and CEO of Amazon, the world's largest e-commerce and cloud computing company.
Amazon MGM Studios, formerly Amazon Studios, is an American film and television production and distribution studio owned by Amazon. Launched on November 16, 2010, it took its current name on October 4, 2023 after its merger with MGM Holdings , which Amazon had acquired the year prior.
Departure of the Amazons, by Claude Deruet, 1620, Metropolitan Museum of Art, New York. The origin of the word is uncertain. [10] It may be derived from an Iranian ethnonym *ha-mazan-'warriors', a word attested indirectly through a derivation, a denominal verb in Hesychius of Alexandria's gloss "ἁμαζακάραν· πολεμεῖν.
Amazon Prime Video is a global on-demand Internet streaming media provider, owned and operated by Amazon, that distributes a number of original programs that includes original series, specials, miniseries, documentaries, and films.
Andrew R. Jassy (born January 13, 1968) [5] is an American business executive who is the president and chief executive officer of Amazon.Before being appointed by Jeff Bezos and the Amazon board during the fourth quarter of 2020, [6] [7] Jassy had been the SVP and CEO of Amazon Web Services from 2003 to 2021.