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Amazon starts as an online book store and becomes a competitor for Barnes and Noble, they start selling CDs and movies four years later.
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Amazon acquires the Internet Movie Database, a database for movie information on the internet.
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Amazon becomes an early player in Cloud computing, giving them advantages on internet infrastructure. They come out with the Kindle and ebooks become more well sold than paper books.
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Amazon announces Amazon Prime, which allows members to gain free two day shipping for an annual fee of $79 USD.
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Amazon announces that sales on Kindle and e-books have surpassed sales on paper books for the first time.
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Amazon launches the streaming services Amazon Music and Amazon Video. They surpass Walmart in market capitalization.
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Amazon launches the Amazon App Store, which becomes a service available in over 200 countries.
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Amazon buys GoodReads, a social reading and book review app, for $150 million USD.
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Amazon announces the Amazon Echo speaker and voice controlled device, the Alexa Voice series is later added to their devices.
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Amazon announces their intention to acquire the video game streaming service Twitch for $970 million USD.
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Amazon announces the first successful Amazon Air Delivery, a service that delivers packages by drones.
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Amazon acquires Whole Foods for $13.4 billion USD. This is considered a large change in food delivery services.
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Amazon launches job fairs across the U.S. that offer both full time and part time jobs to those who show up. Over 50,000 people are recruited.
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Jeff Bezos is named as the worlds wealthiest man with a net worth of over $112 billion USD, becoming a centi-billionire.
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With the Covid pandemic raging, Amazon’s market has skyrocketed as the need for online shopping and delivery increases.
