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| 1998 || December || Competition || [[w:Jack Ma|Jack Ma]] launches [[w:Alibaba Group|Alibaba]] in [[w:China|China]], which would later grow to dominate the Chinese online retail market, and provide an obstacle to Amazon's attempts to expand in China.<ref name="MyUser_The_Daily_Telegraph_January_17_2016c">{{cite web |url=http://www.telegraph.co.uk/finance/newsbysector/mediatechnologyandtelecoms/telecoms/11102766/Alibaba-chief-Jack-Ma-disappoints-investors-with-London-no-show.html |title=Alibaba chief Jack Ma disappoints investors with London no-show |newspaper=The Daily Telegraph |date= September 17, 2014 |author= |accessdate= January 17, 2016}}</ref><ref name="MyUser_Forbes_January_17_2016c">{{cite web |url=http://www.forbes.com/sites/helenwang/2015/07/08/why-amazon-should-fear-alibaba/#2715e4857a0b48a6b5d91bde |title=Why Amazon Should Fear Alibaba |newspaper=Forbes |date= |author= |accessdate= January 17, 2016}}</ref>
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| 1999 || March || || Amazon launches amazon.com Auctions, a web auctions service.<refname="dwssd">{{cite book |last1=Sfetcu |first1=Nicolae |title=What is e-book? |url=https://books.google.com.ar/books?id=CtCLAwAAQBAJ&pg=PT374&lpg=PT374&dq=August+2005,+Amazon+began+selling+products+under+its+own+private+label,+Pinzon&source=bl&ots=K_UxA9SHa7&sig=ACfU3U2j6nnimz0_AWo6yOOysLT5Jd143A&hl=en&sa=X&ved=2ahUKEwiI06OzmMfsAhVjLLkGHXcqCpwQ6AEwCnoECAoQAg#v=onepage&q=August%202005%2C%20Amazon%20began%20selling%20products%20under%20its%20own%20private%20label%2C%20Pinzon&f=false}}</ref>
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| 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."<ref name="groww.ins"/>
| 2005 || February || Product || Amazon launches [[w:Amazon Prime|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.<ref name=everything></ref>
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| 2005 || August || || "In August 2005, Amazon began begins selling products under its own private label, Pinzon.<ref name="dwssd"/>
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| 2005 || November || Product || Amazon launches [[w:Amazon Mechanical Turk|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.<ref name=everything></ref>
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