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Opening paragraph

The article starts with: "Amazon.com, Inc. (NASDAQ: AMZN) is an American-based multinational electronic commerce company". electronic commerce used to be Amazon's focus for many years, but now it has a second completely unrelated business: cloud computing - Amazon with its S3 and EC2 are actually the biggest player in the cloud storage and computing (respectively) services business. So I think the cloud computing business must be mentioned in the opening paragraph, and also deserves more attention in the rest of the article.

I hesitate about whether Amazon even has a third business: the Kindle. On one hand, it can be seen as a commerce business (of electronic books, rather than printed books), but on the other hand it can be seen as an electronic-device-making business. I guess on this issue only time will tell.

--Nyh (talk) 11:09, 10 February 2010 (UTC)

Agree. A better first sentence would be: "Amazon.com is an American-based multinational company that deals in e-commerce, cloud computing and consumer electronic devices." The Nasdaq ticker should be omitted completely from the main text because it is already mentioned in the sidebar; it is distracting. Certainly it should not be in the beginning or anywhere in the first sentence. The "Inc." is also distracting and should be omitted. -Pgan002 (talk) 02:35, 22 December 2011 (UTC)[reply]

I added mention of the other industries to the first paragraph. The use of the stock ticker and "Inc." appears to be standard practice as seen on Google and Walmart. -- Beland (talk) 05:44, 22 April 2012 (UTC)[reply]

Amazon is not the world's largest online retailer, so the second sentence should be removed. Is the external link important, i.e., should it be saved or put somewhere else, instead of deleted along with the sentence? — Preceding unsigned comment added by 24.11.170.14 (talk) 19:03, 31 July 2013 (UTC)[reply]

Logo

There is no mention that the Amazon logo has an arrow from A to Z, indicating that Amazon (are suggesting) that they can supply anything from from A to Z, IE everything. 81.129.111.253 (talk) 02:43, 4 August 2013 (UTC)[reply]

He hoped his company would become a river?

He began looking through the dictionary and settled on "Amazon" because it was a place that was "exotic and different" and it was one of the biggest rivers in the world, as he hoped his company would be.[12]

Need to reword this somehow. He didn't want it to become one of the biggest rivers in the world. Dream Focus 02:17, 10 August 2013 (UTC)[reply]

19th August 2013 Outage

Title says it all.--88.111.123.67 (talk) 20:08, 19 August 2013 (UTC)[reply]