Amazon.com, Inc., doing business under the name of Amazon is a US based e-commerce and cloud computing company based in Seattle, Washington, founded by Jeff Bezos on July 5, 1994. The technology giant is the largest Internet retailer to the world by turnover and market capitalization, and the second largest after Alibaba Group in terms of total sales. [3] The amazon.com website started as an online bookstore and then diversified to sell downloads streaming, MP3 streaming downloads, audio streaming book downloads, software, video games, electronics, clothes, furniture , jewelry and jewelry. The company also produces consumer electronics products - Kindle readers, Fire tablets, Fire TV and Echo - and is the world's largest provider of cloud infrastructure services (IaaS and PaaS). [4] Amazon also sells some low-end products under its Amazon Basics brand.