Amazon

Amazon.com Inc. is based in Seattle and is currently the world’s largest online marketplace. It is also the second largest employer in the United States that was founded in 1994 originally for selling books but soon expanded to sell other products. Amazon also distributes and streams video, audiobooks, music, games and food. Amazon.com is available throughout the World but often with restrictions and limited products.

Amazon Beginnings

Amazon was founded in 1994 in Seattle because of the available technical talent thanks to Microsoft being located there. The company went public in 1997, started selling music and videos in 1998 and by 1999 began offering a lot more product categories.