Amazon is the second most valuable public company in the world (behind only Apple), the largest Internet company by revenue in the world, and after Walmart, the second largest employer in the United States. In 2015, Amazon surpassed Walmart as the most valuable retailer in the United States by market capitalization. Amazon also offers international shipping of some of its products to certain other countries. In 2016, Dutch, Polish, and Turkish language versions of the German Amazon website were also launched. Amazon also sells certain low-end products under its in-house brand AmazonBasics.Īmazon has separate retail websites for the United States, the United Kingdom and Ireland, France, Canada, Germany, Italy, Spain, Netherlands, Australia, Brazil, Japan, China, India, and Mexico. The company also produces consumer electronics-Kindle e-readers, Fire tablets, Fire TV, and Echo-and is the world's largest provider of cloud infrastructure services (IaaS and PaaS).

The website started as an online bookstore and later diversified to sell video downloads/streaming, MP3 downloads/streaming, audiobook downloads/streaming, software, video games, electronics, apparel, furniture, food, toys, and jewelry.

The tech giant is the largest Internet retailer in the world as measured by revenue and market capitalization, and second largest after Alibaba Group in terms of total sales.

, Inc., doing business as Amazon is an American electronic commerce and cloud computing company based in Seattle, Washington, that was founded by Jeff Bezos on July 5, 1994.

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