Amazon company history and background

Amazon company history and background

By SadiTech

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Amazon is an American multinational technology company focused on commerce, cloud computing, digital broadcasting, and virtualization. It is one of the Five Major Companies in the U.S. information technology industry, as well as Alphabet (Google), Apple, Meta (Facebook), and Microsoft. The company has been named "one of the most influential economic and cultural forces in the world", and the world's most important commodity.

 

History

In May 1997, the Amazon was released to the public. It started selling music and videos in 1998, at which point it began operating internationally by finding online booksellers in the United Kingdom and Germany. The following year, Amazon began selling video games, consumer electronics, home improvement items, software, games, and toys.

In 2000, the Amazon logo was launched. In 2002, Amazon launched Amazon Web Services (AWS), which provides data on website thunderstorms, internet traffic patterns and other statistics for retailers and developers.

 

The following description describes Amazon.

•Board of Directors

• Vendor cooperation

• Logistics

• Products and services

• Website

• Amazon sales rate

• Multi-level marketing strategy

• Finance

• Conflicts

• Response to the COVID-19 epidemic

 

Board of Directors:

    You get the name of the Directors in "Wikipedia". Here you will find all the details about the directors of the board. Board Directors including the CEO, President, Partners, Chairman, etc., who you find on this website. There are 6+ CEOs of Amazon and some of them are also President / Former President.

Merchant Partnership:

        There are many relationships in Amazon. We have found online including Nike, AmazonFresh, DC Comics, Apple Inc., etc. So this is a relationship from 2000 to 2019.

 

Transportation (Logistics):

        Amazon Logistics, where Amazon makes contracts with small businesses (called "Delivery Service Partners") to deliver to customers. Each business has a stack of 20–40 vans bearing the Amazon name, and contract workers wear Amazon uniforms. As of December 2020, it operates in the United States, Canada, Italy, Germany, Spain and the United Kingdom. Amazon Prime Air is a test drone delivery service.

Rakuten Intelligence estimates that by 2020 in the United States, the final mileage was 56% for services directly contracted by Amazon (especially in urban areas), 30% by the United States Postal Service (especially in rural areas), and 14. % by UPS. In April 2021, Amazon reported to investors that it had increased its in-house delivery rate by 50% over the past 12 months.

 

Products and Services:

         Amazon.com has a number of products and services available, including:

• Amazon Fresh

• Amazon Prime

• Alexa

• Appstore

• Amazon Drive

• Echo

• Kindle

• Fire pills

• Fire TV

• Video

• Kindle Store

• Music

• Unlimited Music

• Amazon Digital Software & Video Games

• Amazon Studios

• AmazonWireless

• Amazon Academy

In September 2021, Amazon announced the launch of the Astro, its first home robot, powered by Alexa smart home technology. This can be remotely controlled when you are not at home, inspecting pets, people, or home security. It will send owners a notification when it finds something unusual.

 

See also:

• Amazon Breakthrough Novel Award

• Amazon Flexible Payments Service

• Amazon Marketplace

• Amazon