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2. Zappos - Wikipedia

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   US$2 billion (2015) Number of employees. 1,500+. Parent. Amazon. Website. zappos.com. Zappos.com is an American online shoe and clothing retailer based in Las Vegas, Nevada, United States. [ 1] The company was founded in 1999 by Nick Swinmurn and launched under the domain name Shoesite.com.

3. Amazon (company) - Wikipedia

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   In 2000, US toy retailer Toys "R" Us entered into a 10-year agreement with Amazon, valued at $50 million per year plus a cut of sales, under which Toys "R" Us would be the exclusive supplier of toys and baby products on the service, and the chain's website would redirect to Amazon's Toys & Games category. In 2004, Toys "R" Us sued Amazon ...

4. List of mergers and acquisitions by Amazon - Wikipedia

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   Amazon.com, Inc., is an American electronic commerce and cloud computing company headquartered in Seattle, Washington. Founded by Jeff Bezos on July 5, 1994, as an online bookstore, Amazon went public after an initial public offering on May 15, 1997, during the midst of the dot-com bubble. [ 1] The funds gained from the IPO allowed Amazon to ...

5. Amazon rainforest - Wikipedia

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   The Amazon rainforest, [a] also called Amazon jungle or Amazonia, is a moist broadleaf tropical rainforest in the Amazon biome that covers most of the Amazon basin of South America. This basin encompasses 7,000,000 km 2 (2,700,000 sq mi), [ 2 ] of which 6,000,000 km 2 (2,300,000 sq mi) are covered by the rainforest . [ 3 ]

6. Deforestation of the Amazon rainforest - Wikipedia

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   The National Institute for Space Research (INPE) in Brazil estimated that at least 7,747 km 2 (2,991 sq mi) of the Brazilian Amazon rainforest were cleared during the first half of 2019. [64] INPE subsequently reported that deforestation in the Brazilian Amazon reached a 12-year high between August 2019 and July 2020.

7. Amazon River - Wikipedia

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   The Amazon River has an average discharge of about 215,000–230,000 m 3 /s (7,600,000–8,100,000 cu ft/s)—approximately 6,591–7,570 km 3 (1,581–1,816 cu mi) per year, greater than the next seven largest independent rivers combined. Two of the top ten rivers by discharge are tributaries of the Amazon river.