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All About Amazon.com
Amazon.com, Inc
is an American international electronic commerce company with headquarters in Seattle, Washington, United States
It is the world's largest online retailer
Amazon.com started as an online bookstore, but soon diversified, selling DVDs, VHSs, CDs, video and MP3 downloads/streaming, software, video games, electronics, apparel, furniture, food, toys, and jewelry
The company also produces consumer electronics�notably, Amazon Kindle e-book readers, Kindle Fire tablets, Fire TV and Fire Phone � and is a major provider of cloud computing services.
Jeff Bezos incorporated the company (as Cadabra) on July 5, 1994 and the site went online as Amazon.com in 1995
Bezos changed the name cadabra.com to amazon.com because it sounded too much like cadaver
Additionally, a name beginning with "A" was preferential due to the probability it would occur at the top of any list that was alphabetized.
Amazon has separate retail websites for United States, United Kingdom, France, Canada, Germany, Italy, Spain, Australia, Brazil, Japan, China, India and Mexico, with sites for Sri Lanka and other South East Asian countries coming soon
Amazon also offers international shipping to certain other countries for some of its products
In 2011, it had professed an intention to launch its websites in Poland, Netherlands, and Sweden, as well
An [http://www.amazon.de/ref=rd_www_amazon_at/?site-redirect=at Austrian website] operates as part of the German website.