Engineering Entrepreneurship

Assignment:- The worlds most innovative companies

Amazon.com

Amazon.com is an American company with headquarters in Seattle,

Washington. It is the largest Internet-based retailer in the United
States.
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 electronicsnotably,
Amazon Kindle e-book readers, Fire tablets, Fire TV and Fire Phone
and is a major provider of cloud computing services.
Amazon also sells certain low-end products like USB cables under its
inhouse brand AmazonBasics.

Type
Traded as
Founded
Headquarters
Area served
Founder(s)
Key people
Industry
Products
Services
Revenue
Operating
income
Net income

Public
NASDAQ: AMZN
NASDAQ-100 Component
S&P 500 Component
July 6, 1994
Seattle, Washington, U.S.
Seattle[1][2][3]
Worldwide
Jeff Bezos
Jeff Bezos
(Chairman, President and CEO)
Internet
Appstore, The Book Depository,
Game Studios, Instant Video, Instant
Video UK, Audible, Instant Video
Online shopping, Web hosting,
Content Distribution
US$ 88.988 billion (2014)[7]
US$ 178 million (2014)[7]
US$ -241 million (2014)[7]

Total assets
Total equity
Employees
Subsidiaries

US$ 54.505 billion (2014)[7]

US$ 10.741 billion (2014)[7]
154,100 (December 2014)[8]
a2z, A9.com, Amazon Web
Services, Alexa Internet,

Forbes is an American business magazine owned by Forbes, Inc.

Published biweekly, it features original articles on finance, industry,
investing, and marketing topics.Forbes 2014 most innovative companies
list in the list AMAZON.COM is at NO 6