Company Profile: Amazon
Company Profile
Garage sale…
Amazon was founded by Jeff Bezos who sold the first book from his garage in Seattle in 1995. It began as an online bookstore named Cadabra.com but was soon renamed because of the similarity to cadaver!
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In 2008 Amazon expanded into film production and by 2008 the domain amazon.com attracted 615 million visitors annually. It sells almost everything from CDs, to DVDs, computers, jewellery, toys and customises the experience, offering recommendations and customer tracking.
Amazon.com aims to create new technologies, expand into more geographies and continue to improve the lives of shoppers and sellers around the world.
What their website says…
Software Development: Our engineers tackle some of the most complex challenges in large-scale computing. Software development engineers, technical program managers, test engineers, and user-interface experts work in small teams company-wide to contribute to the e-commerce platform that’s used by:
- Tens of millions of Amazon.com customers
- Hundreds of thousands of sellers and merchants
- Tens of thousands of external developers
Information Technology
Our IT team oversees the company’s technology environment. These system, database, and networking experts build and operate highly reliable, scalable distributed systems with terabyte-sized databases and infrastructure that can handle a massive number of transactions.
Sector: Retail
Website: www.amazon.co.uk
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