Amazon Timeline

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  • Founded and launched by Jeff Bezos in 1995

  • Aquires Bookpages.co.uk and becomes Amazon UK

    Aquires Bookpages.co.uk and becomes Amazon UK

  • Time Magazine names Jeff Bezos Person of the Year

  • Net Income Listed at $35 Million

  • Amazon Elastic Compute Cloud (EC2)

  • Launches Amazon Kindle

  • 60,000 Web Services Customers and Est. $86 million on servers.

  • Barnes & Noble challenges Amazon

    Barnes & Noble says it won't sell in its stores books published by Amazon, sending a signal to authors and agents who might be tempted to sign exclusive deals with the online giant

  • Market cap tops $100 billion

  • Bezos unveils Kindle Fire

  • Amazon Profit Plunges for 3rd straight quarter

  • Purchase of 1 million-square-foot office buildings in Denny Triangle

  • Amazon's profit declines 58% in Q4

    Amazon said its fourth-quarter sales rose 35 percent from a year ago to $17.43 billion, while its profit declined 58 percent to $177 million.