Professional Documents
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BUSINESSES
By:
Jose Antonio Oviedo
AMAZON
Is an America electronic commerce
and cloud computing company with
headquarters in Seattle, Washington
Amazon started as an online
bookstore, later diversifying to
selling dvds, blue rays, video
games, downloads(mp3), jewelry,
toys, apparel, and furniture
Amazon has separate retail websites
for United States, United Kingdom,
Ireland, France, Canada (etc.)
In 2015 Amazon surpassed Walmart
as the most valuable retailer in the
United States
The total revenue is $88,988,000 for
last year on 12/31/2014
EBAY
An American multinational corporation
and e-commerce company, providing
consumer to consumer and business
to consumer sales services via internet
It is a company that hosts online
auctions and shopping website
It is headquartered in San Jose,
California
EBay was founded by Pierre Omidyar
in 1995
Today it is a multibillion-dollar
business with operations localized in
over 30 countries
The sales and revenue for last year
was $17.94Billion
NETFLIX
An international provider of on-demand
Internet streaming media available to
viewers in all North and South America,
Australia, New Zealand, Japan
The company was established in 1997
and is headquartered in Los Gatos,
California
It started its subscription-based service
on 1999
By 2009, Netflix was offering a
collection of 100,000 titles on DVD and
had surpassed 10 million subscribers
The sells and revenue for the year 2014
$5.5Billion
YOUTUBE
YouTube is a video-sharing website
headquarter in San Bruno, California
The service was created by three former
PayPal employees in February 2005(Steve
Chen, Chad Hurly, Jawed Karim)
In November 2006, it was bought by google
for $1.65 billion
The site allows users to upload, view, and
share videos , and make it use of Web Most
of the content on YouTube has been
uploaded by individuals, but media
corporations includingCBS,
theBBC,Vevo,Hulu, and other organizations
offer some of their material via YouTube, as
part of the YouTube partnership program
GOOGLE
It was founded on September 4, 1998
by two Ph.D. students from Stanford
University (Larry Page and Sergey
Brin)
It is currently headquarter in
Mountain View, California, US
An American multinational technology
company specializing in internetrelated services and products
The corporation has been estimated
to run more than one million servers
in data centers around the world
The revenue is $17.7Billion
PANDORA
This business was founded on January
2,000 In Oakland California by Will
Glaser ,Jon Kraft, and Tim Westergren
The areas that Pandora have served
are United States, Australia, and New
Zealand
Its main facility is located in Oakland,
California
A music streaming and automated
music recommendation service
powered by The Music Genome Project
During its 2011 fiscal year, Pandora
reported $138 million in revenue with
a $1.8 million net loss, excluding the
cost of a special dividend associated
with the IPO
YAHOO
Yahoo Inc. is an American multinational
technology company headquartered in
Sunnyvale, California
It is globally known for its Web portal,
search engine yahoo!
It was founded on March 2,1995, Santa
Clara, CA
The main founders of yahoo are Jerry
Yang, and David Filo
The current CEO of yahoo is Marissa
Mayor
The total revenue for last year was
$4,618,133
MICROSOFT
Microsoft is a Corporation in America
multinational technology company
headquartered in Redmond, Washington
The company develops, manufactures,
licenses, supports and sells computer
software
The current CEO of this company is
Satya Nadella
It was founded on April 4,1975
Albuquerque, NA
The founders of Microsoft is Bill Gates
and Paul Allen
The total revenue for the year is
$92.97Billion
TWITTER
Twitter is an online social networking
service that enables users to send
and read short 140-characters
messages called Tweets
Registered users can read and post
tweets, but unregistered users can
only read
The CEO is Jack Dorsey
It was founded on March 21, 2006,
San Francisco, CA
It is stationed in San Francisco, CA
The total income for last year was
$1,403,002