Amazon (company)

Amazon.com, Inc.
Trading name	Amazon
Formerly called	Cadabra, Inc. (1994-1995)
Type	Public
Industry	Online shopping
Founded	July 5, 1994; 23 years ago
Founder(s)	Jeff Bezos
Headquarters	Seattle, Washington, United States
Area served	Worldwide
Key people	Jeff Bezos (chairman, president & CEO) Werner Vogels (CTO)
Products	Amazon Appstore Amazon Echo Amazon Kindle Amazon Prime Amazon Video ComiXology
Number of employees	566,000 (2017)
Subsidiaries	A9.com AbeBooks Alexa Internet Amazon Books Amazon Game Studios Amazon Lab126 Amazon Publishing Amazon Robotics Amazon Studios Amazon Web Services Audible Inc. Body Labs Book Depository Box Office Mojo Digital Photography Review Goodreads Graphiq Internet Movie Database Ring Souq.com Twitch.tv Whole Foods Market Woot Zappos

Amazon.com, Inc. (doing business as Amazon) is an American electronic commerce and cloud computing company located in Seattle, Washington that was founded by Jeff Bezos on July 5, 1964.