Amazon is an e-commerce enterprise based in Seattle, Washington. Amazon.com began as an online bookstore; however it soon added its product lines, reckoning CDs, Video games, Electronics, furniture, toys and computer softwares. Amazon has entrenched abstract websites in Canada, the United Kingdom, Germany, Austria, France, China, and Japan. It ships globally on selected products
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Amazon.com, Inc. (NASDAQ: AMZN) is an American electronic commerce (e-commerce) company in Seattle, Washington. Amazon was one of the first major companies to sell goods by Internet, and was an iconic "stock in which to invest" of the late 1990s dot-com bubble. After the collapse, the public became skeptical about Amazon's business model, although it has since remained profitable.
Jeff Bezos founded Amazon.com, Inc. in 1994, and launched it online in 1995. Amazon.com started as an on-line bookstore, but soon diversified to product lines of VHS, DVD, music CDs, MP3 format, computer software, video games, electronics, apparel, furniture, food, toys, etc. Amazon has established separate websites in Canada, the United Kingdom, Germany, France, China and Japan. It also provides global shipping to certain countries for some of its products.
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