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Amazon founded
Started out as selling books and music. -
Beyond books
Amazon announces they will be moving beyond selling books. -
Amazon Prime
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. -
Amazon Mechanical Turk
Amazon launches Amazon Mechanical Turk, an application programming interface allowing any Internet user to perform "human-intelligence" tasks such as transcribing podcasts, often at very low wages. -
Amazon Elastic Compute Cloud
Amazon launches Amazon Elastic Compute Cloud, a virtual site farm allowing users to use the Amazon infrastructure to run applications ranging from running simulations to web hosting -
AmazonFresh
Amazon launches AmazonFresh, a grocery service offering perishable and nonperishable foods. -
Amazon Music
Amazon launches Amazon Music, an online music store and music locker -
Kindle
Amazon launches the Amazon Kindle. -
Kindle Fire
Amazon announces the Kindle Fire, a tablet computer that takes aim at Apple's iPad with a smaller device that sells at $199. -
Amazon launches in India.
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Echo
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. -
Restaurants
Amazon launches its Amazon Restaurants service that delivers food from nearby restaurants, for Amazon Prime customers in Seattle. -
World’s wealthiest
Jeff Bezos becomes the world's wealthiest person with an estimated net worth of just over US$90 billion. -
Check-out free grocery store
Amazon's first checkout-free grocery store opens