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This is a timeline of Amazon.com, American electronic commerce and cloud computing company with headquarters in Seattle, Washington.

Big picture

Time period Key developments at Amazon
1994–1998 Amazon starts off as an online bookstore selling books, primarily competing with local booksellers and Barnes & Noble. It IPOs in 1997.
1998–2004 Amazon starts to expand its services beyond books. It also starts offering convenience services, such as Free Super Savers Shipping.
2005–2011 Amazon moves into the cloud computing area with Amazon AWS, as well as the crowdsourcing area with Amazon Mechanical Turk. By being an early player, it eventually dominates the cloud computing scene, allowing it to control much of the physical infrastructure of the Internet.[1] Amazon also offers the Amazon Kindle for people to purchase their books as eBooks, and by 2010, more people buy ebooks than physical books off of Amazon.
2011–2015 Amazon starts offering streaming services like Amazon Music and Amazon Video. By 2015, its market capitalization surpasses that of Walmart.

Summary by year

Year Key developments a
1994 Amazon is founded.
1995 Amazon officially opens as an online bookseller.[2]
1996 Amazon reincorporates in Delaware.[3]
1997 Amazon has its initial public offering.[2]
1998 Amazon starts selling music CDs.[2]
1999 Amazon adds more product categories, such as toys, electronics and tools. Jeff Bezos is named Time Person of the Year.[2]
2000 " In 2000, the company introduced a service allowing individual sellers and other outside merchants to peddle their products alongside Amazon’s own items."[2]
2001 " In 2001, Amazon enabled its users to buy and sell used and new products"[4]
2002 "in 2002 Amazon introduced a service whereby people could sell second-hand books through the company’s website."[5] "By 2002 Amazon also started venturing into clothing. It announced a partnership with several clothing companies and started offering more than 400 brands online."[6]
2003 "By 2003, the growing retailer had added health and personal care items, sporting goods, and gourmet food."[7] "first full-year profit"[2]
2004 "Amazon launched a search engine, A9.com" "In 2004, Amazon made an entry into the Chinese market by buying Joyo – the largest online seller of electronics and books in China."[6]
2005 "Jeff Bezos announced the launch of Amazon Prime"[6]
2006 "In 2006, Amazon began selling data storage, called Amazon Simple Storage Service"[4]
2007 "launched its digital music service"[4] "Amazon debuted its Kindle e-reader"[2]
2008 ", Amazon acquired Audible – an audiobooks company for $300 million "[6]
2009 "Amazon launched its publishing line – Amazon Encore"[6]
2010 " Amazon Studios launched in 2010 "[3]
2011 "In February 2011, Amazon launched a streaming service like Netflix as a part of its Prime package"[6]
2012 "Amazon started to open its internal computer servers – the backbone of any internet company – to external clients."[8]
2013 "In 2013 it announced plans for drone deliveries"[5] "Amazon creates a delivery network"[9] " Amazon announced Amazon Prime Air, an initiative to develop a fleet of unmanned aerial vehicles (UAVs) to digitize and automate its last-mile delivery process"[10] "In 2013, Amazon launched its first online shopping site in India"[11]
2014 " In 2014 Amazon entered the smartphone market with the release of the Fire Phone."[5]
2015 "In 2015, Amazon surpassed Walmart as the world’s most valuable retailer"[2] " By 2015 Amazon Web Services was the world’s leading provider of Cloud infrastructure services."[5]
2016 "Amazon introduced its Prime membership service in India"[12]
2017 Amazon acquires Whole Foods, entering the world of grocery and physical retail.[6] Jeff Bezos is named the richest man in the world.[2]
2018 Amazon market capitalization crosses the US$1 trillion mark.[6]
2019 Amazon grows to become a digital giant with over US$233 billion in annual sales.[13]

Full timeline

Year Month and date Event type Details
1986 "Bezos earned an undergraduate degree in computer science and electrical engineering from Princeton University in 1986"[2]
1994 July 5 Company Amazon founded.[14] "after realizing the commercial potential of the Internet and determining that books might sell well online, he moved to Washington State and founded Amazon"[2] "Amazon was founded in 1994 by Jeff Bezos as Cadabra, Inc (Hartmans, 2017) in Bellevue, Washington. "[3]
1995 Spring "In the spring of 1995, Bezos invited a small group of friends and former colleagues to check out a beta version of Amazon’s website"[2]
1995 April 3 " the first-ever order was placed on April 3 of that year, for a science book titled “Fluid Concepts and Creative Analogies.”"[2]
1995 July 16 ", Amazon officially opens for business as an online bookseller." " When Amazon.com went live to the general public in July 1995, the company boldly billed itself as “Earth’s biggest bookstore,”"[2]
1996 End of year "However, by the end of 1996 Amazon had racked up $15.7 million in revenues"[2]
1997 May 15 Company Amazon IPOs at $18.00/share, raising $54 million.[14] "d completed its initial public offering in May 1997 with its stock listed on the Nasdaq Global Select Market under the symbol AMZN"[3]
1997 Year round Financial "By 1997, the company’s annual revenues had seen a massive jump to $148 million "[6]
1998 April 27 Acquisitions Amazon acquires the Internet Movie Database, a comprehensive repository for movie information on the Internet.[15]
1998 August 5 Company Direction Amazon announces that it will move beyond books.[16]
1998 December Competition Jack Ma launches Alibaba in China, which would later grow to dominate the Chinese online retail market, and provide an obstacle to Amazon's attempts to expand in China.[17][18]
1999 End of year "By the end of the year, Amazon had shipped to around 150 countries around the globe. It was shaping into a global online store."[6]
2002 January Product Amazon launches Free Super Saver Shipping, which allows customers to get free shipping for orders above $99.[14]
2002 March Legal, Competition Amazon settles its October 1999 patent infringement suit against Barnes & Noble (over its 1-Click checkout system, which it received a patent for in September 1999). It originally charged that Barnes&Noble.com had essentially copied Amazon's 1-Click technology.[19]
2003 October Product Amazon launches A9.com, a subsidiary of Amazon.com based in Palo Alto, California that develops search and advertising technology.[20]
2004 August 19 International Amazon acquires Joyo, an online bookstore in China, for $75 million, which then becomes the 7th regional website of Amazon.com. joyo later becomes Amazon China.[21]
2005 February Product Amazon launches Amazon Prime, a membership offering free two-day shipping within the contiguous United States on all eligible purchases for a flat annual fee of $79.[14]
2005 August "In August 2005, Amazon began selling products under its own private label, Pinzon"
2005 November Product Amazon launches Amazon Mechanical Turk, an application programming interface (API) allowing any Internet user to perform "human-intelligence" tasks such as transcribing podcasts, often at very low wages.[14]
2006 August 25 Product Amazon launches Amazon Elastic Compute Cloud (Amazon EC2), a virtual site farm allowing users to use the Amazon infrastructure to run applications ranging from running simulations to web hosting.[22]
2006 September 19 Product Amazon launches Fulfillment by Amazon, giving small businesses to use Amazon.com's own order fulfillment and customer service infrastructure - and customers of Amazon.com shipping offers when buying from 3rd-party sellers.[23]
2006 Legal Amazon agrees to settle a legal dispute with Toys R Us (over a partnership that gave Toys R Us exclusive rights to supply some toy products on Amazon's website) and pays $51 million.[24]
2006 March Product Amazon launches Amazon Simple Storage Service (Amazon S3), which allows other websites/developers to store computer files on Amazon's servers.[14]
2007 August Product CreateSpace announces launch of Books on Demand service, which makes it easy for authors who want to self-publish their books to distribute them on Amazon.com.[25]
2007 August Product Amazon launches AmazonFresh, a grocery service offering perishable and nonperishable foods.[26]
2007 September 25 Products Amazon launches Amazon Music, an online music store and music locker.[27]
2007 November 19 Products Amazon launches the Amazon Kindle.[14]
2008 January 28 Amazon begins distributing its MP3 service to subsidiary websites worldwide.[28]
2008 September 12 Leadership Amazon hires Lisa Utzschneider, a former senior Microsoft executive, to become senior vice president of national ad sales for Amazon.[29][30]
2008 October 21 Acquisition Amazon acquires game developer and distributor Reflexive Entertainment.[31]
2009 May Amazon launches its publishing line Amazon Encore.[6]
2009 July 22 Acquisitions, Competition Amazon acquires Zappos for $850 million.[32]
2009 September 20 "AmazonBasics: Bezos and Co. starts private-label consumer electronics line"[33]
2009 October 20 Competition Barnes & Noble announces the Nook, an eReader.[34]
2010 January Competition Apple introduces its own virtual bookstore, called iBooks, and then partners with five major book publishers.[35] It later convinces them to raise the price of ebooks (using the agency pricing model that gives publishers full control over ebook prices).
2010 February 1 Competition Microsoft launches Microsoft Azure, a cloud computing platform that will compete with Amazon AWS over cloud services.
2010 July Product Amazon announced that e-book sales for its Kindle reader outnumbered sales of hardcover books for the first time ever.[36]
2010 November 8 "Amazon.com, Inc. (NASDAQ: AMZN) today announced that it has reached an agreement to acquire Quidsi, Inc., which operates Diapers.com"[37]
2011 January Acquisitions, International Amazon acquires Lovefilm, a DVD rental service known as the Netflix of Europe.[38]
2011 February 16 Competition Borders Group, outcompeted by Amazon, applies for Chapter 11 bankruptcy.[39]
2011 February 22 Product Amazon rebrands its Amazon Video service as Amazon Instant Video and adds access to 5,000 movies and TV shows for Amazon Prime members.[40][41]
2011 March 22 Product Amazon launches the Amazon Appstore for Android devices and the service was made available in over 200 countries.[42]
2011 May 19 "Amazon now sells more eBooks than print books"[43]
2011 July 1 Legal California starts collecting sales taxes on Amazon.com purchases.[44]
2011 September Product Amazon launches Amazon Locker, a delivery locker system that allows users to get items delivered at specially-designed lockers.[45]
2011 September 28 Product Amazon announces the Kindle Fire, a tablet computer that takes aim at Apple's iPad with a smaller device that sells at $199, compared with the $499 value of Apple's cheapest iPad.[46]
2012 April Legal The Department of Justice files suit against Apple Inc and five major publishing houses (the "Big Five"), alleging that they colluded in 2010 to raise the price of ebooks (using the agency pricing model that gives publishers full control over ebook prices).[47] Amazon had originally set the price of ebooks at $9.99 (using the wholescale pricing model giving Amazon full control over ebook prices).
2012 March 19 Acquisitions Amazon acquires Kiva Systems for $775 million, a robotics company that creates robots that can move items around warehouses.[48]
2012 April 23 Amazon launches AmazonSupply.com, a supply site for businesses offering more than 500,000 items.[49][50][51]
2012 April Legal Amazon agrees to allow collection of sales taxes in both Nevada and Texas (starting on July 1), and agrees to create 2,500 jobs and invest $200 million in new distribution centers in Texas.[52]
2012 August 2 Amazon launches a video application for iPad, letting users stream or download movies and TV shows bought or rented from Amazon on their iPads.[53]
2012 August 6 Amazon announces it would be adding a gaming department to its company titled Amazon Game Studios. Amazon states that it would introduce "innovative, fun and well-crafted games" to consumers.[54]
2012 August 20 Amazon announces Amazon Glacier, a low-cost online file storage web service that provides reliable data archiving, storage, and backup.[55]
2012 August 23 Amazon launches the India Kindle Store, helping consumers to buy e-books in rupees.[56][57][58]
2012 September 6 Products Amazon announces the Kindle Fire HD series of touchscreen tablet computers.[59]
2012 November 8 "Amazon starts selling wine online, with direct shipping from wineries"[60]
2012 November 20 "Amazon Offers ‘Amazon Pages’ For Brands To Customize With Their Own URLs, And ‘Amazon Posts’ For Social Media Marketing"[61]
2012 November 28 "Amazon Web Services Announces Amazon Redshift"[62]
2012 December 6 Amazon launches online bookstore in Brazil, giving Brazilian consumers access to publications from top local authors.[63][64][65]
2013 January 9 "Amazon deletes negative feedback, but only for its own shipping service"[66]
2013 January 17 "Amazon now selling MP3s directly to iPhone, iPod touch users"[67]
2013 February 19 "Amazon.com, Inc. (NASDAQ: AMZN) today announced the Entertainment Collectibles Store (amazon.com/entertainmentcollectibles) which offers more than 350,000 unique and rare collectibles, including memorabilia from Academy Award and Grammy winning artists and honorees. "[68]
2013 March Acquisitions Amazon acquires social reading and book-review site GoodReads.[69]
2013 June 5 International "Amazon Launches India Marketplace At Amazon.in"[70] Amazon launches in India.[71][72]
2013 July 29 "Amazon Partners With Cloud vLab To Teach Developers How To Use AWS"[73]
2013 August 6 "Amazon Launches Art Store, Putting Multi-Million Dollar Paintings In Your Virtual Shopping Cart"[74]
2013 August 27 "Amazon today announced it’s expanding its long-running Amazon Associates program to mobile app developers. The affiliate program, which allows members to advertise and link to Amazon products for percentage of the sales, will be made available to participating developers through a newly launched Mobile Associates API. "[75]
2013 November 7 "Amazon Launches New Charity Site to Give Back to Nonprofits"[76]
2013 November 25 Working condition A BBC investigation into an Amazon warehouse in Britain finds workers facing "increased risk of mental illness".[77][78][79]
2013 December 18 " Amazon Web Services, Inc. (AWS, Inc.), an Amazon.com company, today announced the upcoming limited preview of its China Region for the AWS cloud computing platform. This will be the fourth AWS Region in Asia Pacific and the tenth Region globally"[80]
2014 January 13 "Amazon tops list of most favored brands in America"[81]
2014 February 5 "Amazon Acquires Video Gaming Studio Double Helix Games"[82]
2014 February 6 "Amazon arrives in Poland, Czech Republic - but not everyone's happy"[83]
2014 March 13 "Amazon hikes Prime membership to $99 per year"[84]
2014 April 2 "Amazon announces $99 Fire TV set-top box, available now" Amazon Fire TV.[85]
2014 April 10 "Amazon Buys Digital Comics Company ComiXology"[86]
2014 April 16 "Amazon Merges Kindle Personal Documents With Cloud Drive"[87]
2014 April 24 "Amazon, in Threat to UPS, Tries Its Own Deliveries"[88]
2014 May 5 "Amazon has just introduced a new feature that lets Twitter users add items to their Amazon carts by including a hashtag within a tweet."[89]
2014 May 9 "Amazon patents taking photos against white backgrounds"[90]
2014 May 22 "Amazon CEO Jeff Bezos voted worst boss on the planet"[91]
2014 May 28 "Amazon Launches Collectible Coins Store"[92]
2014 June 9 "Amazon To Launch Subscription-Based Billing And Recurring Payments Service"[93]
2014 June 18 "Amazon unveils the Fire Phone with eye-tracking tech"[94]
2014 June 27 "Amazon Ties Up With IT Billionaire Murthy Of Infosys To Launch E-commerce Joint Venture In India"[95]
2014 July 25 Product Amazon launches the Amazon Fire.[96]
2014 August 25 Acquisitions Amazon announced its intent to acquire the video game streaming website Twitch for $970 million.[97]
2014 September 18 Competition "Alibaba Overtakes Amazon as Most Highly Valued Online Retailer"[98]
2014 September 22 "Two-thousand workers at four Amazon warehouses in Germany have gone on strike until Tuesday in a dispute over pay and working conditions"[99]
2014 October Legal Amazon reaches agreement with Simon & Schuster, allowing the publisher to adopt the agency pricing model and set prices on its books sold on Amazon.[100]
2014 November 6 (announcement), actual rollout occurs through 2015 Products Amazon unveils Amazon Echo, a wireless speaker and voice command device that can take commands and queries, and be used to add items to the Amazon.com shopping cart, among other things.[101][102] The Alexa Voice Service that is built into Amazon Echo can also be added to other Amazon devices.[103]
2014 November Legal Amazon resolves dispute with Hachette, allowing Hachette to adopt the agency-pricing model and set prices on Hachette books sold on Amazon.[104]
2014 December 3 Amazon launches Takeout & Delivery feature, a restaurant takeout and delivery service rivaling GrubHub. The service can be accessed within the Amazon Local app and website.[105][106]
2014 December 30 "Amazon is the most popular company in America"[107]
2015 January 22 "Amazon to Acquire Israeli Chip Maker Annapurna Labs"[108]
2015 January 22 "Amazon Launches Kindle Textbook Creator"[109]
2015 February 4 "Amazon opens its first store"[110]
2015 February 4 Competition "Alibaba begins drone delivery trials in China"[111]
2015 February 18 "Amazon Web Services dominates cloud survey, but Microsoft Azure gains traction"[112]
2015 February 27 "IRCTC joins hands with Amazon.in for online shopping"[113]
2015 March 4 Competition "Alibaba opens US data center in new challenge to Amazon"[114]
2015 March 12 "Amazon Has Quietly Acquired 2lemetry To Build Out Its Internet Of Things Strategy"[115]
2015 March 30 "Amazon Home Services Gets Its Official Launch"[116]
2015 April 17 "Amazon Shuts Down TestDrive, The Appstore Feature That Let You Try Apps Before Downloading"[117]
2015 April 28 "Amazon Launches Amazon Business Marketplace, Will Close AmazonSupply"[118]
2015 May 15 "Amazon Web Services Announces AWS Educate to Accelerate Cloud Learning in the Classroom"[119]
2015 June 25 "Amazon Introduces the Alexa Fund: $100 Million in Investments to Fuel Voice Technology Innovation"[120]
2015 June 30 "Amazon Launches Full Retail Operations In Mexico"[121]
2015 July 15 To commemorate its 20th birthday, Amazon celebrates "Amazon Prime Day", which Amazon announces would feature deals for prime members rivaling those on Black Friday.[122]
2015 July Competition, International Alibaba announces that it will invest $1 billion into its Aliyun cloud computing arm, some of which would go into new Aliyun international data centers. This would allow Aliyun to compete with Amazon Web Services outside of China.[123]
2015 August 26 Products Amazon launches Amazon Underground, an Android app through which users can get gaming and other apps for free that they would otherwise have to pay for, and also get in-app purchases for free. App creator participation is voluntary. App creators are paid $0.002 for every minute a user spends in the app.[124][125][126]
2015 September 8 Products Amazon launches its Amazon Restaurants service that delivers food from nearby restaurants, for Amazon Prime customers in Seattle.[127][128] The service would subsequently be roled out to many other cities.
2015 September 30 "Today we announced Merch by Amazon, a new self-service program designed to help you increase revenue through the sale of branded t-shirts designed by you and produced, sold and shipped by Amazon."[129]
2015 October 7 "Amazon launches QuickSight business intelligence service"[130]
2015 October 8 "Amazon Challenges Etsy With Strictly Handmade Marketplace"
1015 October 14 "Amazon Shuts Down Its Hotel Booking Site, Amazon Destinations"[131]
2015 November 2 Products Amazon opened its first physical retail store, a bookstore in the University Village shopping center in Seattle. The store, known as Amazon Books, has prices matched to those found on the Amazon website and integrate online reviews into the store's shelves.[132]
2015 December 14 Amazon begins moving into their new headquarters campus in the Denny Triangle neighborhood of Seattle, beginning with the 38-story Amazon Tower I (nicknamed "Doppler" after the codename for Amazon Echo).[133] The three towers are scheduled to be completed by 2020.
2015 December 16 A study by Survata finds that 44% of respondents searching for products went directly to amazon.com.[134]
2016 January 6 "Amazon Web Services Launches Korean Datacenters for Its Cloud Computing Platform"[135]
2016 January 13 "Amazon buys a shipping company. Can it compete with FedEx, UPS?"[136]
2016 January 26 "Amazon Prime now reaches nearly half of U.S. households"[137]
2016 March 3 Amazon announces Echo Dot, a system offering Siri-like voice controls from an independent bluetooth speaker.[138] The company also announces Amazon Tap, a device using Alexa voice commands when connected to Wi-Fi or a mobile hotspot to play music, read the news, get weather reports, and most of the things the full Echo does.[139][140]
2016 March 29 Recognition According to a report by the Reputation Institute, Amazon is considered the "most reputable" company in the United States.[141][142]
2016 April 4 Amazon expands its Amazon Payments service as the company takes on other payment methods, including PayPal and Apple Pay.[143][144][145]
2016 April 14 Amazon launches Subscribe and Save Store in India, covering daily household essentials in a subscription program with monthly automatic delivery, free standard shipping, and savings of up to 10 percent.[146]
2016 May 5 "Amazon Partners with Atlas Air Worldwide for Cargo Services"[147]
2016 May 10 Amazon launches a video service called Amazon Video Direct, which allows users to place videos available to rent or own, to view free with ads, or to be bundled together, and offers as an ad-on subscription.[148]
2016 May 11 "Amazon open-sources its own deep learning software, DSSTNE"[149]
2016 May 12 "Wal-Mart challenges Amazon with 2-day delivery"[150]
2016 May 20 "Amazon is the second-most downloaded app in India"[151]
2016 May 27 "Amazon has put Alexa, the voice-powered AI software found in the Echo, Dot and Tap, right inside the browser with the launch of Echosim.io."[152]
2016 June 8 "Amazon targets India growth with added $3 billion investment"[153]
2016 June 9 "Amazon launches full online supermarket service in UK"[154]
2016 June 29 "Walmart (WMT) is sweetening the deal for the shoppers it wants to win over from Amazon.com (AMZN) by offering a free one-month trial of “ShippingPass,” its answer to its online rival’s wildly successful Prime subscription plan."[155]
2016 July 14 "Amazon’s AWS buys Cloud9 to add more development tools to its web services stack"[156]
2016 July 23 "Amazon Prime launches in India, initially without Prime Video service"[157]
2016 July 28 "Amazon’s Alexa Now Can Lock Your Front Door"[158]
2016 August 4 "First Amazon Prime airplane debuts in Seattle after secret night flight"[159]
2016 August 24 "Amazon launches the Kindle Reading Fund to expand digital reading around the world"[160]
2016 September 12 "Amazon and Pandora Are Reportedly Set to Launch New and Cheaper Music Streaming"[161]
2016 September 13 "Amazon adds another Prime benefit: free podcasts from Audible Channels and free audiobooks"[162]
2016 September 30 Amazon subsidiary Twitch announces premium features that are exclusive to users who have an active Amazon Prime subscription (Twitch Prime), including advertising-free access to the service, and monthly offers of video games and add-on content.[163]
2016 October 12 "Amazon.com Inc. is pushing deeper into the grocery business with plans to introduce convenience stores as well as curbside pickup locations, say people familiar with the matter."[164]
2016 October 19 " Amazon is launching Friday an e-book reader exclusively designed for Japanese manga aficionados"[165]
2016 October 28 "Amazon Prime launches in China"[166]
2016 November 18 "Fiat Chrysler teams up with Amazon to sell cars online"[167]
2016 December 7 Delivery Amazon Prime Air (Amazon's drone-based delivery system) makes its first delivery in Cambridge in the United Kingdom. The successful delivery is announced a week later, on December 14, along with video.[168][169]
2016 December 14 "Amazon claims first successful Prime Air drone delivery"[170]
2016 December 14 "Amazon Prime Video Now Available in More Than 200 Countries and Territories Around the World"[171]
2016 December 30 "Amazon wins patent for a flying warehouse that will deploy drones to deliver parcels in minutes"[172]
2017 January 6 "Amazon worth more than Sears, Macy's and Target combined"[173]
2017 January 9 Acquisition "Sources: Amazon quietly acquired AI security startup harvest.ai for around $20M"[174]
2017 January 20 "Amazon and Apple end exclusive deal on audio books"[175]
2017 January 23 "Amazon launches £20,000 literary prize for Kindle authors"[176]
2017 January 24 "Amazon launches a subscription service for STEM toys"[177]
2017 February 3 "Amazon accounts for 43% of US online retail sales"[178]
2017 March 7 "After pushing back, Amazon hands over Echo data in Arkansas murder case"[179]
2017 March 16 "Amazon adds Alexa to its main shopping app"[180]
2017 March 28 Acquisition Amazon acquires Dubai-based e-commerce company Souq.com, the biggest online retailer in the Middle East.[181][182][183][184]
2017 March 28 "AWS launches Amazon Connect, productizes Amazon’s in-house contact center software"[185]
2017 April 3 "Amazon launches Amazon Cash, a way to shop its site without a bank card"[186]
2017 April 5 "Hydrogen fuel cell maker Plug Power Inc PLUG.O said on Wednesday Amazon.com Inc AMZN.O had acquired the right to buy up to 23 percent of the company and that it would supply batteries to power forklifts used by the online retailer in its warehouses."[187]
2017 April 12 "Amazon is launching a new dashboard that lets you monitor the content your kid consumes"[188]
2017 April 25 "Amazon launches ‘Subscribe with Amazon’ to help companies sell subscriptions"[189]
2017 May 9 "Amazon launches Echo Show smart speaker with touchscreen and video calling"[190]
2017 May 9 Competition "Amazon drops its free shipping minimum to $25, undercutting Walmart"[191]
2017 May 16 "Amazon begins rewarding top-performing Alexa Skill developers with direct payments"[192]
2017 May 31 "Amazon’s Alexa adds support for iCloud calendars" "Alexa can now remind you about appointments from yet another calendar service: iCloud."[193]
2017 June 6 "Amazon launches a low-cost version of Prime for customers on government assistance"[194]
2017 June 16 Acquisitions Amazon announces it is acquiring Whole Foods for $13.4 billion. The move is seen as potentially affecting food delivery, combining a huge physical store presence with an online delivery network.[195][196]
2017 July 19 Products Amazon launches Spark, a shoppable product feed with an Instagram-like feel, for Amazon Prime subscribers. The product is compared with Instagram and Pinterest.[197][198][199][200]
2017 July 27 Jeff Bezos becomes the world's wealthiest person with an estimated net worth of just over US$90 billion.[201]
2017 August 2 Personnel Amazon conducts massive recruitment for 50,000 empty vacancies by hosting job fairs in a number of cities in the United States and offering full-time and part-time jobs in their fulfilment centers. To be hired, individuals are asked to show up in person at one of these centers.[202][203][204]
2017 August 23 Competition "Google and Walmart Partner With Eye on Amazon"[205]
2017 August 27 Competition Amazon spends its first day as the owner of a brick-and-mortar grocery chain cutting prices at Whole Foods Market as much as 43 percent for some products.[206][207][208]
2017 September 20 "Amazon is working on its first wearable device: a pair of “smart glasses” that would allow its virtual assistant Alexa to be summoned any time, anywhere, according to people familiar with its plans."[209]
2017 October 4 "Amazon is ordered to pay nearly $300 million by EU over ‘illegal tax advantage’"[210]
2017 October 11 Product Amazon releases Kindle Oasis, a waterproof audible-integrated e-reader.[211][212][213]
2017 October 24 Service Amazon announces its Business Prime Shipping, a new paid membership program aimed at multi-user businesses in the United States and Germany.[214]
2017 October 25 Service Amazon launches Amazon Key, allowing delivery drivers leave packages inside customers' front doors. Available for Prime members, the new device unlocks the front door for package delivery and other trusted services, and is paired with the Amazon Cloud Cam, a $120 internet-connected security camera built by the company.[215][216][217]
2017 October 25 Personnel Amazon reveals having 541,900 employees in the third quarter, up from a little more than 300,000 in the same period a year earlier.[218]
2017 November 1 "Amazon adds an AR shopping feature to its iOS app"[219]
2017 November 13 Amazon closes an estimated US$250 million deal to acquire global TV rights to The Lord of the Rings, based on the fantasy novels by J.R.R. Tolkien. The series would be produced by Amazon Studios in cooperation with the Tolkien Estate and Trust, HarperCollins, and New Line Cinema, a division of Warner Bros., which produced the movie franchise.[220][221][222][223]
2017 November 27 Product Amazon announces Amazon Sumerian, a platform for developers to build and host virtual reality, augmented reality, and 3D apps quickly and with minimal coding, for smartphones and tablets, head-based displays, digital signage and web browsers.[224][225][226]
2017 December 4 International expansion Amazon offically launches in Australia, expanding the local online product range to more than 20 consumer categories, including books, computers, music, clothing, accessories, home improvement, consumer electronics, kitchen goods and baby products.[227][228][229]
2017 December 22 Acquisition Amazon acquires smart camera and doorbell startup Blink, a venture-capital backed company that makes home security cameras.[230][231][232]
2018 January 19 "Amazon raises monthly Prime price in US"[233]
2018 January 22 "Amazon's first checkout-free grocery store opens"[234]
2018 January 30 Partnership Amazon, Berkshire Hathaway and JPMorgan Chase announce partnership to form a not-for-profit health care venture to lower health care costs for their employees in the United States. According to the companies, the initial focus of the independent company would be on technology that will provide their employees and their families with simplified and high-quality health care at accessible costs.[235][236][237]
2018 February 9 "Amazon to Launch Delivery Service That Would Vie With FedEx, UPS"[238]
2018 February 27 "Amazon buys smart doorbell maker Ring for a reported $1 billion"[239]
2018 March 2 "After weeks of silence, Amazon's retail team informed Nest employees on a conference call late last year that it would not list any of the newer Nest products recently announced by the company, according to a person familiar with the call. The products in question include the latest Nest thermostat and the Nest Secure home security system, among others."[240]
2018 March 6 Jeff Bezos is formally designated the wealthiest person in the world, with a registered net worth of $112 billion by Forbes, becoming the first centi-billionaire.[241][242]
2018 March 9 "Amazon adds follow-up mode for Alexa to let you make back-to-back requests"[243]
2018 March 12 "Amazon now lets you place calls through Alexa-enabled tablets"[244]
2018 March 20 Financial "Amazon.com AMZN.O became the second most valuable publicly listed U.S. company on Tuesday, surpassing Google parent Alphabet Inc GOOGL.O for the first time."[245]
2018 March 22 "Amazon is issued patent for delivery drones that can react to screaming voices, flailing arms"[246]
2018 April 16 "Amazon warehouse workers skip bathroom breaks to keep their jobs, says report"[247]
2018 April 17 "Amazon Launches the International Shopping Experience in the Amazon Shopping App"[248]
2018 April 18 "Amazon Prime Has More Than 100 Million Members"[249]
2018 April 26 "Amazon is now selling home security services, including installations and no monthly fees"[250]
2018 May 5 "Jeff Bezos says Amazon is not his 'most important work.' It's this secretive rocket company that toils in the Texas desert."[251]
2018 May 9 Competition "Walmart buys Flipkart for $16 billion, shifts battle with Amazon to India"[252]
2018 May 15 "Amazon is moving into blockchain with a new partnership"[253]
2018 May 25 "Woman says her Amazon device recorded private conversation, sent it out to random contact"[254]
2018 June 19 Acquisition "Amazon on Tuesday announced Alexa for Hospitality, a new program that lets hotel chains place Amazon Echo devices in guest rooms."[255]
2018 June 21 "Amazon Workers Demand Jeff Bezos Cancel Face Recognition Contracts With Law Enforcement"[256]
2018 June 26 Amazon adds voice control to its Alexa iOS app allowing users to control the app with their voices.[257]
2018 June 28 Acquisition "Amazon Buys Online Pharmacy PillPack for $1 Billion"[258]
2018 July 18 "Amazon.com's AMZN.O stock market value reached $900 billion on Wednesday for the first time, marking a major milestone in its 21-year trajectory as a publicly listed company and threatening to dislodge Apple AAPL.O as Wall Street's most valuable jewel."[259]
2018 August 8 "Amazon Introduces Grocery Pickup in as Little as 30 Minutes from Select Whole Foods Market Stores"[260]
2018 August 15 "Amazon Alexa completes tie-up with Microsoft Cortana almost a year after deal"[261]
2018 August 22 "Walmart’s latest move to compete with Amazon is a Kobo ebook and audiobook store"[262]
2018 August 22 "Amazon announced this morning a further investment in voice technology with an expansion of its Alexa Fund Fellowship to 14 new universities, up from only 4 in 2017, the Fellowship’s first year."[263]
2018 August 29 "Amazon Pay has acquired personal assistant platform Tapzo, its first such deal in India, in a bid to build on and widen the scope of its payment offering."[264]
2018 August 30 "Amazon India starts small pilot for mobile site in Hindi "[265]
2018 September 4 "Amazon has become the second company to be valued by Wall Street at $1tn, a matter of weeks after Apple reached the milestone first."[266]
2018 September 5 "Bernie Sanders introduces ‘Stop BEZOS’ bill to tax Amazon for underpaying workers"[267]
2018 September 17 "Amazon launches Storefronts to give 20K small businesses a bigger spotlight"[268]
2018 September 18 "Audi partners with Amazon and Electrify America to help kickstart its EV ecosystem"[269]
2018 September 21 "Amazon debuts its new Alexa smart home & car devices"[270]
2018 September 27 "Amazon Invests in Start-Up Company to Deliver Prefabricated Homes"[271]
2018 October 2 "Amazon raises minimum wage to $15 for all US employees"[272]
2018 October 5 Security "China planted chips in Apple and Amazon servers, report claims"[273]
2018 October 10 "Amazon scraps secret AI recruiting tool that showed bias against women"[274]
2018 October 10 "Amazon Files for Patent to Detect User Illness and Emotional State by Analyzing Voice Data"[275]
2018 October 26 "Microsoft overtakes Amazon as second most valuable US company"[276]
2018 October 29 "Amazon Announces $100 Million Donated to Charities through AmazonSmile"[277]
2018 November 7 "Amazon launches Echo and Alexa in Mexico"[278]
2018 November 9 Partnership "Amazon strikes deal with Apple to sell iPhones, iPads"[279]
2018 November 14 "Judge orders Amazon to turn over Echo recordings in double murder case"[280]
2018 November 21 Security "Amazon hit with major data breach days before Black Friday"[281]
2018 November 27 "Amazon Web Services Announces AWS Ground Station"[282]
2018 November 28 "Amazon launches an automated labeling service for its SageMaker machine learning tool"[283]
2018 December 12 "Amazon Web Services Launches New Region in Sweden"[284]
2018 December 21 "Amazon Air expands with 10 more cargo aircraft, bringing fleet to 50 planes"[285]
2018 Fourth quarter "Amazon on Thursday reported record profits of $3 billion on revenue of $72.4 billion for the fourth quarter."[286]
2019 January 4 " Amazon says 100 million Alexa devices have been sold"[287]
2019 January 4 "Amazon debuts Showroom, a visual shopping experience for home furnishings"[288]
2019 January 7 Competition "Kroger, Microsoft Create Futuristic Grocery Store"[289]
2019 January 8 "Amazon becomes world's most valuable public company"[290]
2019 January 10 "Amazon launches new IMDb that has free movies, shows"[291]
2019 January 15 Competition "Microsoft and Walgreens join forces to take on Amazon in health care"[292]
2019 January 23 "Amazon has revealed a new autonomous-delivery robot named 'Scout'"[293]
2019 January 25 "Amazon facial-identification software used by police falls short on tests for accuracy and bias, new research finds"[294]
2019 January 31 "Amazon Announces 80,000 Alexa Skills Worldwide"[295]
2019 February 4 Leadership "Former Walmart executive Rosalind Brewer joins Amazon board"[296]
2019 February 7 "Amazon invests in self-driving vehicle startup Aurora"[297]
2019 February 11 "Amazon announced today that it has signed an agreement to acquire eero, a company that offers products and services for high-performing, reliable, and simple home WiFi"[298]
2019 February 14 "Amazon has partnered with Western Union to set up a service called PayCode, which lets people shop and pay for Amazon items using local currencies that would not have been accepted on the site before, starting with services in 10 countries: Chile, Columbia, Hong Kong, Indonesia, Kenya, Malaysia, Peru, Philippines, Taiwan and Thailand."[299]
2019 February 19 "Amazon pledges 50% net-zero carbon shipments by 2030"[300]
2019 February 21 "Amazon announced it will bring computer science courses to more than 1,000 high schools in all 50 states and the District of Columbia."[301]
2019 February 25 "Former PepsiCo chief Indra Nooyi elected to Amazon board"[302]
2019 March 6 Amazon announces it would close all of its 87 pop-up locations in the United States.[303]
2019 March 6 "Amazon’s joint health-care venture finally has a name: Haven"[304]
2019 March 7 "Amazon unveils strategy to increase women in STEM roles"[305]
2019 March 7 "Amazon invests in Seattle startup Jargon, a voice application content platform for developers"[306]
2019 March 12 "Amazon eases price restrictions on third-party vendors"[307] "Amazon will no longer dictate how sellers price their products"[308]
2019 March 12 "Eero is now officially part of Amazon, pledges to keep network data private"[309]
2019 March 13 "Amazon removes books promoting autism cures and vaccine misinformation"[310]
2019 April 3 Privacy "Facebook user data exposed on Amazon cloud computing servers"[311]
2019 April 3 "Amazon.com should share web domain name rights, Brazil says"[312]
2019 April 9 "Amazon Alexa now offers long-form news coverage in addition to Flash Briefings"[313]
2019 April 11 "Amazon reportedly employs thousands of people to listen to your Alexa conversations"[314]
2019 April 18 "Amazon launches ad-supported music service to Echo owners"[315]
2019 April 18 Partnership "Google & Amazon reach an agreement to bring their streaming video apps to each others’ platforms"[316]
2019 April 23 "Starting today, Amazon Prime members in the US can have their packages delivered directly to their garages."[317]
2019 April 23 Partnership "Amazon expands partnership with retail company Casino Group in France"[318]
2019 April 29 "Amazon launches digital freight brokerage site"[319]
2019 May 1 "Amazon Targets Middle East With Arabic Website"[320]
2019 May 2 "Amazon makes blockchain service platform generally available"[321]
2019 May 7 "For the 1st time, a new Amazon Go store accepts cash as lawmakers push cashless retail bans"[322]
2019 May 9 Customer privacy A group composed of US Senators and 19 consumer and public health advocates accuses Amazon of violating children's privacy with kid-friendly smart speakers. Advocates say the kids' version of Alexa doesn't forget what children tell it, even after parents try to delete the conversations.[323][324][325]
2019 May 15 Competition "Amazon Surpasses Walmart As The World's Largest Retailer"[326]
2019 May 16 "Warren Buffett's Berkshire Hathaway just made a $900 million bet on Amazon"[327]
2019 May 17 "Amazon invests in Deliveroo food courier"[328]
2019 May 17 "Amazon now sells flight tickets in India"
2019 May 31 "Amazon To Acquire Sizmek Ad Server And DCO Business"[329]
2019 June 5 "Amazon says it has deployed more than 200,000 robotic drives globally"[330]
2019 June 11 "Amazon Web Services partners with George Mason on 4-year cloud degree program"[331]
2019 June 13 "Biden criticizes Amazon for not paying federal taxes in 2018"[332]
2019 June 16 "Amazon accused of lack of transparency on climate impact"[333]
2019 June 20 "Amazon receives US patent for surveillance as a service"[334]
2019 June 27 "Amazon Web Services (AWS), a unit of Amazon.com Inc, said on Thursday it will bolster its presence in Latin America with an “Edge” location in Argentina, its first in the country that will help speed up use for local users."[335]
2019 August 2 "Amazon Owns Nearly Half Of The Public-Cloud Infrastructure Market Worth Over $32 Billion: Report"[336]
2019 August 7 "Amazon delivery robots are officially on the streets of California"[337]
2019 August 7 "Amazon introduces Alexa speed controls, letting users determine how quickly voice assistant talks"[338]
2019 August 8 "Schoolchildren in China work overnight to produce Amazon Alexa devices

This article is more than 1 year old" "Leaked documents show children as young as 16 recruited by Amazon supplier Foxconn work gruelling and illegal hours"[339]

2019 August 18 "Amazon is launching a new program to donate unsold products, after reports that millions were being destroyed"[340]
2019 August 20 "Amazon has been criticised by environmental groups and customers after introducing a range of plastic packaging that cannot be recycled in the UK."[341]
2019 August 21 "Amazon Opens Its Largest Campus Yet"[342]
2019 August 21 "Amazon Launches Hebrew-Language Site To Draw Israeli Sellers"[343]
2019 September 4 "Amazon introduces Counter in France"[344]
2019 September 17 "Amazon launches HD music streaming"[345]
2019 September 19 "Amazon orders 100,000 Rivian electric vans, will hit the road in 2021"[346]
2019 September 24 "Amazon launches Amazon Care, a virtual and in-person healthcare offering for employees"[347]
2019 September 25 "Amazon launches its first pair of smart glasses"[348]
2019 September 26 "Amazon launches Alexa smart ring, smart glasses and earbuds"[349]
2019 October 3 "Amazon adds Brazilian Portuguese to Alexa, launches Echo products in Brazil"[350]
2019 October 4 "Amazon Introduces New Invite-Only Products: Alexa-Enabled Rings And Glasses"[351]
2019 October 7 "Amazon introduces a Kindle for kids"[352]
2019 October 8 "Coursera introduces Amazon Alexa Skill to support learning goals"[353]
2019 October 8 "Over 30 civil rights groups demand an end to Amazon Ring’s police partnerships"[354]
2019 October 9 "Amazon Launches Amazon.sg for Shoppers in Singapore"[355]
2019 October 10 "Amazon Introduces Sidewalk, A Long-range Wireless Network for IoT Devices"[356]
2019 October 16 "Amazon’s Alexa can now pay utility, phone and cable bills in India"[357]
2019 October 22 "Amazon introduces Fire TV and tablet app to watch customized news snippets"[358]
2019 October 23 "BBC Launches Interactive News Service for Alexa"[359]
2019 November 1 "Amazon Launches Alexa Skill Personalization Features"[360]
2019 November 11 "Amazon confirms it will open first ever branded grocery store designed as a cheaper alternative to Whole Foods

"[361]

2019 November 12 "Amazon Introduces Glasses With Alexa Capabilities"[362]
2019 November 13 "Amazon Introduces Glasses With Alexa Capabilities"[363]
2019 November 14 "Amazon Web Services launches AWS Data Exchange for qualified third-party data"[364]
2019 November 19 "Amazon introduces $35 Fire TV Blaster to enhance voice control of TVs and entertainment systems"[365]
2019 November 19 "Amazon introduces ad-supported free version of Amazon Music"[366]
2019 November 24 "Amazon introduces a Dash Smart Shelf for businesses that automatically restocks supplies"[367]
2019 December 2 "AWS Launches Quantum Computing Offensive With Amazon Braket"[368]
2019 December 2 "Amazon Brings Alexa Skills Monetization to France, Italy, and Spain"[369]
2019 December 3 "Amazon introduces Fraud Detector and CodeGuru"[370]
2019 December 3 "Amazon Web Services (AWS) has launched a new machine learning service called Amazon Transcribe Medical, which will automatically convert physician consultations and dictated notes from speech to text."[371]
2019 December 9 "Amazon Web Services (AWS) has announced Access Analyzer for Amazon Simple Storage Service (S3), a tool designed to help organizations minimize the risk of S3 storage bucket data leaks."[372]
2019 December 16 "Alexa, talk like Samuel L. Jackson! Amazon now allows Echo users to swap smart speaker's voice for the actor's - and you can even have him CURSE at you"[373]
2019 December 16 "Ribbon and Amazon Partner to Deliver Real-Time, Automated Call Analytics and Recording"[374]
2020 January 8 "Apple, Google, Amazon, And Others Team Up to Create New Smart Home Standard"[375]
2020 January 13 "Amazon Releases AWS Outposts, Enabling Hybrid Data Center Architectures"[376]
2020 January 17 "During his recent visit to India, Amazon founder and CEO Jeff Bezos announced that the company plans to create one million new jobs in India by 2025 through continued investments in technology, infrastructure, and logistics network."[377]
2020 January 20 "Jeff Bezos-led Amazon Introduces E-Rickshaws For Delivery"[378]
2020 January 21 "Amazon now has 200,000 robots working in its warehouses"[379]
2020 February 1 "Amazon Now Employs 798,000 People Worldwide, 500,000 in the US"[380]
2020 February 1 "Amazon has 150 million Prime members globally now"[381]
2020 February 4 "Amazon is officially worth $1 trillion, joining other tech titans"[382]
2020 February 10 "Amazon to set up two data centres in Telangana with USD 1.6 billion investment"[383]
2020 February 22 "Amazon Removes Fake Products Promising to 'Kill' Coronavirus"[384]
2020 February 24 "Amazon Partners with Dematic to Introduce Micro-Fulfillment Areas to its Grocery Stores"[385]
2020 February 25 "Amazon launches its first grocery store to feature checkout-free shopping"[386]
2020 February 27 Competition "Walmart is working on a competitor to Amazon Prime, called Walmart+, a spokeswoman confirmed to CNBC on Thursday."[387]
2020 February 28 "Amazon now operates seven different kinds of physical stores. Here's why"[388]
2020 March 3 "Amazon rolls out Alexa feature that lets users ask about prescription drugs"[389]
2020 March 6 "Amazon removes hundreds of thousands of ‘high-priced offers’ amid coronavirus price gouging"[390]
2020 March 9 "Amazon launches business selling automated checkout to retailers"[391]
2020 March 12 "Amazon asks all employees to work from home, if they can"[392]
2020 March 19 "Amazon Is Hiring 100,000 More Workers to Meet a Surge in Demand"[393]
2020 March 21 "Amazon.com will stop shipping non-essential products to consumers in Italy and France, the company said on Saturday, representing an escalation in the e-commerce giant’s response in regions hard hit by the coronavirus outbreak."[394]
2020 April 1 "AWS launches Amazon Detective for investigating security incidents"[395]
2020 April 2 "Amazon blocks sale of N95 masks to the public, begins offering supplies to hospitals"[396]
2020 April 15 "Amazon launches waitlist for food deliveries amid growing demand"[397]
2020 April 20 "China’s Alibaba to invest $28.2 billion in cloud infrastructure as it battles Amazon, Microsoft"[398]
2020 April 21 "Amazon invests $10 million to help conserve forests as part of climate change plan"[399]
2020 April 22 "Amazon launches data centre operations in South Africa"[400]
2020 April 22 "AWS launches Amazon AppFlow, its new SaaS integration service"[401]
2020 April 23 "Amazon reportedly used third-party seller data to research and launch its own products"[402]
2020 April 29 "Amazon launches 'Pay Later' service as WhatsApp eyes credit space"[403]
2020 First quarter "Amazon makes $10,000 per second as shoppers shelter in place"[404]
2020 May 13 "Amazon launches a new $90 tablet as people are stuck at home"[405]
2020 May 18 Competition "FedEx, Microsoft are teaming up to deliver packages, widening gap with Amazon"[406]
2020 May 21 "Amazon launches food delivery service in India"[407]
2020 May 21 "Amazon launches first solar energy facility in China"[408]
2020 May 25 "Mukesh Ambani's JioMart expands to 200 Indian cities in challenge to Amazon and Flipkart"[409]
2020 June 23 "Amazon Launches $2 Billion Climate Venture Capital Fund"[410]
2020 June 26 "Amazon launches ‘Smart Stores’ in India to win mom and pop"[411]
2020 June 29 "Amazon Prime Video introduces ‘Watch Party,’ a social co-viewing experience included with Prime"[412]
2020 June 30 "Amazon Web Services establishes space-focused business unit"[413]
2020 June 30 "Amazon’s brand value tops $400 billion, boosted by the coronavirus pandemic: Survey"[414]
2020 July 7 "Amazon Prime Video finally launches user profiles to all customers worldwide"[415]
2020 July 14 "Amazon launches primary care centers for employees"[416]
2020 July 23 "Amazon now sells auto insurance in India"[417]
2020 August 10 Rebranding "Amazon rebrands Twitch Prime as Prime Gaming"[418]
2020 August 20 Competition "DoorDash launches grocery delivery to compete with Amazon and Instacart"[419]
2020 August 29 "Amazon just opened its largest office in the world, spanning 1.8 million square feet, in Hyderabad, India."[420]
2020 August 31 "Amazon wins FAA approval for Prime Air drone delivery fleet"[421]
2020 September 3 "Amazon launches ‘Alexa for Residential’ to help property managers add voice to smart apartments".[422]
2020 September 10 "Amazon launches Alexa Print, a way to print lists, recipes, games and educational content using your voice"[423]
2020 September 15 "Amazon Launches Luxury Stores on Its Mobile App With Oscar de la Renta as First Brand Partner"[424]
2020 September 23 "Amazon launches sustainable product search tool to help shoppers make greener choices"[425]
2020 September 24 "Amazon launches spherical Echo and flying camera drone"[426]
2020 September 24 Amazon announces Amazon Luna, a cloud gaming service with an initial library of around 100 titles.
2020 September 29 "Amazon introduces the Amazon One, a way to pay with your palm when entering stores"[427]
2020 September 29 "Amazon today is launching a new service called Amazon Explore that allows customers to book live, virtual experiences led by local experts."[428]
2020 October 1 "AWS launches Amazon Timestream, a serverless time series database for IoT and operational applications"[429]
2020 October 5 "Amazon launches a hand scanner for 'secure' payments"[430]
2020 October 12 "Amazon launches an AR app that works with new QR codes on its boxes"[431]
2020 October 13 "Amazon launches its own virus testing"[432]
2020 October 14 "Amazon launches augmented reality app that allows shoppers to bring their empty shipping boxes to life"[433]


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