Engineering Entrepreneurship Assignment:- The worlds most innovative companies Amazon.comAmazon.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.

TypePublic

Traded asNASDAQ:AMZNNASDAQ-100 ComponentS&P 500 Component

FoundedJuly 6, 1994Seattle, Washington, U.S.

HeadquartersSeattle[1][2][3]

AreaservedWorldwide

Founder(s)Jeff Bezos

KeypeopleJeff Bezos(Chairman, President and CEO)

IndustryInternet

ProductsAppstore, The Book Depository, Game Studios, Instant Video, Instant Video UK, Audible, Instant Video

ServicesOnline shopping, Web hosting, Content Distribution

RevenueUS$ 88.988billion (2014)[7]

Operating incomeUS$ 178million (2014)[7]

Net incomeUS$ -241million (2014)[7]

Total assetsUS$ 54.505billion (2014)[7]

Total equityUS$ 10.741billion (2014)[7]

Employees154,100 (December 2014)[8]

Subsidiariesa2z, 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