Amazon (Amazon for short; Nasdaq: AMZN) is the largest online e-commerce company in the United States, located in Seattle, Washington. Amazon was founded in 1994 and began to sell books only online. Now it has expanded to a variety of other products, becoming the world's largest online retailer with the largest variety of goods and the second largest internet enterprise in the world. The company name also includes Alexalnternet, a9, lab 126, Intermnet movie database (Internet).