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Amazon.com, Inc is an e commerce company and is based at Seattle, Washington, USA. It is one of the largest online marketplaces and sells products under the category of Audio, Video, DVDs and Cds, electronics, software, video games, books, apparel, jewelry, food, furniture, cloud computing services etc. The company also designs its own brand, Amazon Kindle, an e reader device. Amazon maintains individual websites for each countries including USA, UK, France, Japan, China, India etc and is available in over ten languages. It also acts as the parent company for other sites such as Amazon Web Services, a2z, A9.com, Alexa Internet, Junglee.com etc. It is the owner of the Brilliance Audio, which is an independent company as audiobook developer. Amazon.com is visited by over 65 million customers only in the USA. Amazon dates back to 1994 and is the brainchild of Jeff Bezos. Bezos resigned from his job at D. E. Shaw & Co to pursue his interest in online business. He prepared a list of some products that were in demand and could be sold online such as CDs, PC hardware and software, books, videos etc. Finally Bezos decided to sell books through his website Due to the growing interest of people in the literature. The foundation of Amazon was laid in the garage of Bezo in Bellevue with the assistance of other two people, John Ingram and Keyur Patel. The website was made available throughout USA and more than 40 nations. The first book to be sold through the website was, Fluid Concepts and Creative Analogies by D. Hofstadter. It had a sale of $20,000 per week. Amazon got advantage over the physical bookstores as former could store more title due to its virtual storage. The company name was selected by Bezos by the help of dictionary when he choosed 'Amazon' word, which matched the Idea behind the opening of website. The company went public in 1995 following the incorporation in 1994. Its first IPO was offered in 1997 at NASDAQ. Later on the company wasn't making expected profits due to its unique business plan and made the stockholders worried putting the company's future in doubt. Amazon was one of the survivors in the dot COM bubble burst, in which many online companies were shut down. It generated the Revenue of over one dollar billion in 2001. The company has acquired PlanetAll, Alexa Internet, CDNow, Joyo.com, BookSurge etc while invested in Engine Yard and LivingSocial. The company represents its ideology through its logo in which the curve line heading from A to Z in its title “Amazon”. It indicates that the company offers every product from A to Z. Amazon is associated with some retail stores such as Marks and Spencer, Mothercare, Sears Canada etc. In 2011, Amazon purchased the digital rights from Dc Comics to their famous Superheroes comics. It also entered into partnership with Us Postal Service to carry out its delivery on Sunday. Amazon has also established its offices, service centers, software development centers, warehouses across Asia, Latin America, Europe, Africa, and North America.