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1 day ago · 30 years ago today, Jeff Bezos founded an online bookstore in his garage. What Bezos eventually named Amazon is now one of the largest companies on earth — one of a few to be worth $2 trillion ...
1 day ago · In 1998, Amazon made a splash with its first acquisitions – the trio of UK online bookstore Bookpages, Germany's Telebook and the Internet Movie Database (IMDb). The company began selling CDs and DVDs in the same year, while expanding into more product categories, including consumer electronics, games and video games.
3 days ago · 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.
1 day ago · [Editor’s note: Amazon is among NPR's financial supporters and pays to distribute NPR content.] 30 years ago today, Jeff Bezos founded an online bookstore in his garage. What Bezos eventually ...
1 day ago · Amazon, which turns 30 on July 5, 2024, has undoubtedly changed the world of online shopping. This year, its websites are estimated to sell $554 billion worth of goods in the United States, JPMorgan Chase estimates. This gives it a 42% market share of US e-commerce, well above the 6% of Walmart, its closest online competitor (and the country ...
1 day ago · Jeff Bezos founded the e-commerce giant in his garage 30 years ago. NPR's Andrew Mambo talks with business reporter Alina Selyukh about how Bezos built an empire and what's next for the company.
4 days ago · Amazon has a number of products and services available, including its digital assistant Alexa, Amazon Music, and Prime Video for music and videos respectively, the Amazon Appstore for Android apps, the Kindle line of eink e-readers, Fire and Fire HD color LCD tablets.
