REC History of Amazon amazon . • Amazon.com lnc is an American multinational technology comp focuses on e-commerce, cloud computing, digital streaming, an intelligence. It has been referred to as "one of the most influenti and cultural forces in the world". It is one of the the Big Five American information technology companies, alongside Alphabet (Google), Apple, Meta (facebook), and Microsoft. Currently it's worth nearly IJS$I .65 trillion. • Amazon was founded by Jeff Bezos in Washington, on July 5, 1994. • Started with selling books online and then extended to other niche. • It is growing rapidly in the U.S. and now operates in nine of the 16 countries where Amazon has marketplaces • Amazon makes up roughly 45% of the US market (as of 2020) • In 2018, Bezos announced that it's two-day delivery service, Amazon Prime, had surpassed 200 million subscribers worldwide (as of 2021 and 147 million in US alone)..