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  2. Amazon (company) - Wikipedia

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    Jeff Bezos's home in Bellevue, Washington, where the company was founded in 1994. Amazon was founded on July 5, 1994, by Jeff Bezos after he relocated from New York City to Bellevue, Washington, near Seattle, to operate an online bookstore.

  3. History of Amazon - Wikipedia

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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 Group, outcompeted by Amazon, applies for Chapter 11 ...

  4. 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 ...

  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. Ruskin, Florida - Wikipedia

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    The community was founded August 7, 1908, ... Governor Rick Scott and Amazon announced, in 2013, that Amazon would create 3,000 new jobs in Florida. [12]

  7. 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 ...

  8. History of Florida - Wikipedia

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    A shell midden at Enterprise, Florida in 1875.. The foundation of Florida was located in the continent of Gondwana at the South Pole 650 million years ago (Mya). When Gondwana collided with the continent of Laurentia 300 Mya, it had moved further north. 200 Mya, the merged continents containing what would be Florida, had moved north of the equator.

  9. Timeline of Amazon Web Services - Wikipedia

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    Year Month and date (if available) Event type Details 2007: June 1: Partnerships: Dropbox is founded. [244] Dropbox, a storage and backup service aimed at ordinary consumers and businesses, would grow into one of the biggest users of Amazon S3.