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| 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,”"<ref name="history.coms">{{cite web |title=Amazon opens for business |url=https://www.history.com/this-day-in-history/amazon-opens-for-business |website=history.com |accessdate=20 October 2020}}</ref>
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| 1996 || End of year || Financial || Amazon amounts US$15.7 million in revenues.<ref name="history.coms"/>
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| 1997 || May 15 || Company || Amazon IPOs at $18.00/share, raising $54 million.<ref name=everything></ref> "d completed its initial public offering in May 1997 with its stock listed on the Nasdaq Global Select Market under the symbol AMZN"<ref name="nanookjoe.wordpress.comsss"/>
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| 1997 || Year round || Financial || "By 1997, the company’s Amazon annual revenues had seen a massive jump to surpasses US$148 million ".<ref name="groww.ins">{{cite web |title=From Bookstore to Superstore: Amazon Through the Years |url=https://groww.in/blog/from-bookstore-to-superstore-amazon-through-the-years/ |website=groww.in |accessdate=20 October 2020}}</ref>
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| 1998 || April 27 || Acquisitions || Amazon acquires the [[w:Internet Movie Database|Internet Movie Database]], a comprehensive repository for movie information on the Internet.<ref name="IMDB_Acquisition">{{cite web |url=http://phx.corporate-ir.net/phoenix.zhtml?c=176060&p=irol-newsArticle&ID=502989 |title=Amazon Media Room: Press Releases |newspaper=Phx.corporate-ir.net |date= |author= |accessdate= January 17, 2016}}</ref>
