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  2. Jeff Bezos - Wikipedia

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    In 2013, he pledged $500,000 to Worldreader, a non-profit founded by a former Amazon employee. [306] In September 2018, Business Insider reported that Bezos was the only one of the top five billionaires in the world who had not signed the Giving Pledge , an initiative created by Bill Gates and Warren Buffett that encourages wealthy people to ...

  3. History of Amazon - Wikipedia

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    Amazon began search for Amazon HQ2, a second company headquarters to house up to 50,000 employees. [149] [150] 2018 January 18 Company Amazon narrows down the choices of its second headquarters location to 20 places. [151] 2018 January 22 Company Amazon opens a cashier-less grocery store to the public. [152] 2018 September 19 International

  4. Amazon (company) - Wikipedia

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    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 ...

  5. List of mergers and acquisitions by Amazon - Wikipedia

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    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] The funds gained from the IPO allowed Amazon to grow quickly, making its first three acquisitions on April 27, 1998, less than a year after the company had gone public. [2]

  6. How Jeff Bezos Built Amazon Into What It Is Today - AOL

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    In 1994, Jeff Bezos founded Amazon in his garage in Seattle. On Jan. 12, he celebrated his 57th birthday as one of the richest people in the world with a personal fortune estimated at more than ...

  7. List of Amazon locations - Wikipedia

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    Amazon's European headquarters are in Luxembourg's capital, Luxembourg. [13] Its UK headquarters are at Principal Place, Shoreditch, London. [14] On November 13, 2018, Amazon announced that it would divide the planned HQ2 between New York City and Northern Virginia. [15] On February 14, 2019, Amazon canceled its plan for the HQ2 location in New ...

  8. Timeline of Amazon history - Wikipedia

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    1616 — Santa Maria do Grão Pará de Belém is founded, marking Portuguese presence as the French, English, and Irish try to colonize the region. 1619 — The settlement of Borja is founded on the banks of the Marañón River, Peru. 1637-39 — Pedro Teixeira leads the first European expedition up the Amazon from Belém to Quito, arriving ...

  9. Waterstones - Wikipedia

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    In the 2012–13 financial year, Amazon paid £3.2 million in tax on sales of £4.2 billion and received £2.5 million in grants from the government. [139] In the same period, it was revealed that Waterstones paid £11.9 million in tax, despite an operating loss of £25.4 million and sales of £410.4 million. [140] [141]