Amazon, referred to as Amazon; NASDAQ: AMZN, is the largest online e-commerce company in the United States, located in Seattle, Washington. It is one of the earliest companies to start e-commerce on the Internet. Amazon was founded in 1994. At the beginning, it only operated online book sales business. Now it has expanded to a wide range of other products. It has become the world's online retailer with the most product varieties and the world's second largest Internet company. Under the company's name, it also includes subsidiaries such as AlexaInternet, a9, lab126, and Internet Movie Database (IMDB).