List of mergers and acquisitions by Amazon

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Amazon is an electronic commerce and cloud computing company. Each acquisition is for the respective company in its entirety, unless specified. The acquisition date listed is the date of the agreement between Amazon and the subject of the acquisition. The value of each acquisition is listed in US dollars because Amazon's headquarters are in the United States. If the Amazon service that is derived from the acquired company is known, then it is also listed here.

Acquisitions

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# Acquisition date Company Business Location Value (USD) Related to Used as / Integrated with Talent acquired Refs
1 April 27, 1998 IMDB Movie Reviews and Ratings  USA, Seattle  —  —
2 August 4, 1998 Junglee Product Comparison Shopping  USA, Sunnyvale, CA
3 October 15, 1998 Bookpages Online Bookstore  UK [1]
4 October 15, 1998 Telebook Online Bookstore  DE [2]
5 April 12, 1999 LiveBid Online Auction Service  Czech Republic, Prague, Hlavni mesto Praha [3]
6 April 26, 1999 Exchange.Com Online marketplace for hard-to-find, antiquarian, and used books  USA, Cambridge, MA [4]
7 May 23, 1999 Alexa Website information and analytics  USA, San Francisco, CA $250,000,000 [5]
8 June 11, 1999 Musicfile hard-to-find music and memorabilia  USA [6]
9 June 11, 1999 Accept.com person-to-person and business-to-consumer transaction site  USA, Redwood City, CA [7]
10 December 1, 2001 OurHouse Online retailer providing home improvement advice and products  USA, Decatur, GA
11 2001 CDNow Online retailer for music  USA, Jenkintown, PA
12 April 4, 2005 BookSurge Inventory-free book publishing, printing, fulfillment and distribution  USA
13 April 21, 2005 Mobipocket Book reading on mobile  FRA, Paris
14 July 8, 2005 Custom Flix On-demand DVD  USA, North Charleston, SC  —  —  —
15 2006 TextPayMe SMS payment  USA, Redmond, WA Philip Yuen
16 February 27, 2006 Shopbop Online boutique for clothing, footwear, bags and accessories  USA, Madison, WI
17 May 1, 2007 dpreview Digital camera review site  USA, Seattle, WA
18 May 23, 2007 Brilliance Audio Audio books  USA, Grand Haven, MI
19 January 18, 2008 Without A Box Online application submission service for film festivals  USA, Studio City, CA
20 January 31, 2008 Audible Audio books, entertainment and education  USA, Newark, NJ
21 June 5, 2008 Fabric.com Wholesale distributor of apparel fabrics.  USA
22 August 1, 2008 AbeBooks Online marketplace for new, used, rare and out-of-print books from thousands of sellers.  USA
23 August 25, 2008 Shelfari Social cataloging website  USA, Seattle, WA

See also

References

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