Amazon is an international e-commerce website for consumers, sellers, and content creators.
Amazon.com, Inc. is an e-commerce retailer formed originally to provide consumers with products in two segments. It offers users with merchandise and content purchased for resale from vendors and those offered by third-party sellers.
Operating in North American and International markets, Amazon provides its services through websites such as amazon.com and amazon.ca. It also enables authors, musicians, filmmakers, app developers, and others to publish and sell content via its branded websites.
Amazon also provides Kindle Direct Publishing, an online platform that allows independent authors and publishers to make their books available in the Kindle Store. In addition, it provides co-branded credit card agreements and advertising services, serves developers and enterprises through Amazon Web Services, and manufactures and sells electronic devices.
It offers Amazon Prime which is an annual membership program. It provides free shipping, streaming, and access to books to borrow and read on a Kindle device.
Since 2017, Jeff Bezos has been selling $1 billion in Amazon shares every year in order to fund his Blue Origin space project. The transactions are a part of a prearranged 10b5-1 trading plan which provides an affirmative defense to insider trading.
The US stock sell-off might have been compounded by the comments that the interest rates may need to be raised to prevent excessive load on the economy.
E-commerce giant Amazon reported stellar numbers in sales led by the pandemic-struck demand in online shopping. The company also reported a strong surge in its cloud computing business and Amazon Prime Video demand.
