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Amazon.com () is an American electronic commerce company based in Seattle, Washington. It was one of the first major companies to sell goods over the Internet and was one of the iconic stocks of the late 1990s dot-com bubble. After the bubble burst Amazon faced skepticism about its business model, but it made its first annual profit in 2003. Amazon also owns Alexa Internet, A9.com, and the Internet Movie Database (IMDb).
Founded as Cadabra.com by Jeff Bezos in 1994 and launched in 1995, Amazon.com began as an online bookstore, though it soon diversified its product lines, adding DVDs, music CDs, computer software, video games, electronics, like mp3 players, apparel, furniture, food, and more. Amazon has established separate websites in Canada, the United Kingdom, Germany, Austria, France, China and Japan and it ships globally.
Amazon offers web services for access to its catalog as well as for integration with retailers like Target and Marks & Spencer. A9.com provides search engine services directly on the Amazon.com site. Since November 2005, the company has been testing Amazon Mechanical Turk, an API allowing programs to dispatch tasks to human processors.
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Amazon sues Barnesandnoble.com over patent - The Net retail giant sues Barnesandnoble.com, alleging that the rival book and music e-tailer illegally copied Amazon's patented 1-Click technology. [CNet]
Meta Description: [ Amazon sues Barnesandnoble.com over patent | The Net retail giant sues Barnesandnoble.com, alleging that the rival book and music e-tailer illegally copied Amazon's patented 1-Click technology.
| October 22, 1999, 5:00 PM PT | Sandeep Junnarkar ]
Amazon Wins Court Ruling in Patent Case - Signaling that many common features on Web sites can be patented, a federal judge has ordered Barnesandnoble.com to stop using a one click ordering system that Amazon.com patented. [New York Times] [Free subscription required]
Boycott Amazon - Article by Richard Stallman calling for boycott and reader responses. [Linux Today]
Boycott Amazon.com - Description of and links about boycott over 1-Click patent.
GNU Project: Boycott Amazon! - Richard Stallman of the GNU Project calls for a boycott of Amazon for enforcing its patent on the obvious concept of one-click purchasing.
Richard Stallman Calls for Amazon Boycott - Discussion of Linux Today article by Richard Stallman. [Slashdot]
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The Amazon of All Boycotts - Article about open-source proponent Richard Stallman's boycott of Amazon.com following the company's victory in a patent suit against rival Barnes and Noble.
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Wired on Amazon.com Boycott - Discussion of Wired article on the Amazon.com boycott. [Slashdot]
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