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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 ...
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
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 ...
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]
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 ...
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 ...
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 ...
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]