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This excerpt taken from the AMZN 10-K filed Jan 29, 2010. Description of Business Amazon.com opened its virtual doors on the World Wide Web in July 1995 and offers Earth’s Biggest Selection. We seek to be Earth’s most customer-centric company for three primary customer sets: consumers, sellers, and developers. We serve consumers through our retail websites and focus on selection, price, and convenience. We also manufacture and sell the Kindle e-reader. We offer programs that enable sellers to sell their products on our websites and their own branded websites and to fulfill orders through us. We serve developers through Amazon Web Services, which provides access to technology infrastructure that developers can use to enable virtually any type of business. In addition, we generate revenue through co-branded credit card agreements and other marketing and promotional services, such as online advertising. We have organized our operations into two principal segments: North America and International. See “Note 11—Segment Information.” These excerpts taken from the AMZN 10-K filed Jan 30, 2009. Description of Business Amazon.com opened its virtual doors on the World Wide Web in July 1995 and we offer Earth’s Biggest Selection. We seek to be Earth’s most customer-centric company for three primary customer sets: consumer customers, seller customers and developer customers. We serve our consumer customers through our retail websites and focus on selection, price, and convenience. We offer programs that enable seller customers to sell their products on our websites and their own branded websites and to fulfill orders through us. We serve developer customers through Amazon Web Services, which provides access to technology infrastructure that developers can use to enable virtually any type of business. In addition, we generate revenue through co-branded credit card agreements and other marketing and promotional services, such as online advertising. We have organized our operations into two principal segments: North America and International. See “Note 13—Segment Information.” Description of Business
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We account for treasury stock under the cost method and include treasury stock as a This excerpt taken from the AMZN 10-K filed Feb 11, 2008. Description of Business Amazon.com, a Fortune 500 company, opened its virtual doors on the World Wide Web in July 1995 and today offers Earth’s Biggest Selection. We seek to be Earth’s most customer-centric company. Amazon.com serves three primary customer sets: consumer customers, seller customers and developer customers. We serve consumer customers through our retail websites, which include www.amazon.com, www.amazon.ca, www.amazon.de, www.amazon.fr, www.amazon.co.jp, www.amazon.co.uk, www.shopbop.com, www.endless.com, and the Joyo Amazon websites at www.joyo.cn and www.amazon.cn. We serve seller customers by offering programs and services that enable them to sell products on our websites and operate their e-commerce businesses under their own brand name and website address. We serve developers by offering a suite of web services that provide developer customers with direct access to Amazon.com’s robust technology platform in order to enable them to build innovative applications on their own. In addition, we generate revenue through co-branded credit card agreements and other marketing and promotional services, such as online advertising. We have organized our operations into two principal segments: North America and International. See “Note 13—Segment Information.” This excerpt taken from the AMZN 10-K filed Feb 16, 2007. Description of Business Amazon.com, a Fortune 500 company, opened its virtual doors on the World Wide Web in July 1995 and today offers Earth’s Biggest Selection. We seek to be Earth’s most customer-centric company, where customers can find and discover anything they might want to buy online, and endeavor to offer customers the lowest possible prices. Amazon.com operates retail websites and offers programs that enable third parties to sell products on our websites. Our retail websites include www.amazon.com, www.amazon.ca, www.amazon.de, www.amazon.fr, www.amazon.co.jp, www.amazon.co.uk, www.joyo.com, www.shopbop.com, and www.endless.com. We also provide services for third-party retailers, marketing and promotional services, and web services for developers. In addition, we operate other websites, including www.a9.com and www.alexa.com that enable search and navigation and www.imdb.com, a comprehensive movie database. We have organized our operations into two principal segments: North America and International. See “Note 13—Segment Information.” This excerpt taken from the AMZN 10-K filed Feb 17, 2006. Description of Business
Amazon.com, Inc., a Fortune 500 company, opened its virtual doors on the World Wide Web in July 1995 and today offers Earth’s Biggest Selection. We seek to be Earth’s most customer-centric company, where customers can find and discover anything they might want to buy online, and endeavor to offer customers the lowest possible prices.
Amazon.com and its affiliates operate retail websites, including: www.amazon.com, www.amazon.co.uk, www.amazon.de, www.amazon.co.jp, www.amazon.fr, www.amazon.ca, and www.joyo.com. We have organized our operations into two principal segments: North America and International. The North America segment includes the operating results of www.amazon.com and www.amazon.ca. The International segment includes the operating results of www.amazon.co.uk, www.amazon.de, www.amazon.fr, www.amazon.co.jp, and www.joyo.com. In addition, we operate other websites, including www.a9.com and www.alexa.com that enable search and navigation; www.imdb.com, a comprehensive movie database; and Amazon Mechanical Turk at www.mturk.com which provides a web service for computers to integrate a network of humans directly into their processes.
This excerpt taken from the AMZN 10-K filed Mar 11, 2005. Description of Business
Amazon.com, Inc., a Fortune 500 company, opened its virtual doors on the World Wide Web in July 1995. We seek to be Earth’s most customer-centric company, where customers can find and discover anything they might want to buy online, and endeavor to offer customers the lowest possible prices. We and third-party sellers offer millions of new, used, refurbished, and collectible items, in dozens of product categories.
Amazon.com and its affiliates operate seven retail websites: www.amazon.com, www.amazon.co.uk, www.amazon.de, www.amazon.co.jp, www.amazon.fr, www.amazon.ca, and www.joyo.com. We have organized our operations into two principal segments: North America and International. The North America segment includes the operating results of www.amazon.com and www.amazon.ca. The International segment includes the operating results of www.amazon.co.uk, www.amazon.de, www.amazon.fr, www.amazon.co.jp, and www.joyo.com. In addition, we operate www.a9.com and www.alexa.com that enable search and navigation, and www.imdb.com, a comprehensive movie database.
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