This document provides an overview of e-commerce and the company Amazon. It defines e-commerce as the process of buying and selling goods online. Amazon was founded in 1994 by Jeff Bezos and began as an online bookseller, later expanding into other product categories. The document discusses Amazon's growth, including becoming a publicly traded company in 1997 and establishing partnerships and international operations. It concludes that e-commerce has made online shopping fast, efficient and convenient globally.
2. Table of Contents
E-commerce overview
1.1 Definition of E-commerce
1.2 Brief history of E-commerce
Benefits of E-Commerce
Amazon
About Founder
Home Page View
History of Amazon
Products by Amazon
Facts and Benchmarks
Conclusion
4. Definition of E-commerce
E- commerce is a process of
buying , selling , transferring
or exchanging products ,
services , and /or information
through electronic network
and computers
5. Brief History of E-
commerce
1970
E-commerce meant the facilitation of
commercial transactions electronically,
using technology such as Electronic Data
Interchange(EDI) and Electronic Funds
Transfer (EFT), allowing businesses to send
commercial documents like purchase
orders or invoices electronically.
6. Brief History of E-
commerce (cont.)
1980
The Growth and acceptance of
credit cards
Automated teller machines
(ATM)
Telephone banking
Airline reservation system
7. Brief History of E-
commerce (cont.)
1990s
Internet commercialized and
users flocked to participate in
the form of dot-coms, or internet
start-ups.
Innovative applications ranging
from online direct sales to e-
learning experiences.
8. Brief History of E-
commerce (cont.)
2000s
Many European and American
business companies offered their
services through the World Wide
Web.
Since then, People began to
associate a word "e-commerce"
10. Amazon
Amazon.com, Inc., doing business as Amazon ,
is an American electronic commerce and cloud
computing company based in Seattle,
Washington that was founded by Jeff Bezos on
July 5, 1994.
11. About Founder
Amazon was founded by Jeff
bezos on July 5, 1994 leaving his
position as V.P. of D. E. Shaw &
Co. , a Wall Street firm.
He started company named as
"Cadabra, Inc."
He named "Amazon" because it
was a place that was "exotic and
different", just as he had
envisioned for his Internet
enterprise.
14. History of Amazon
Due to large worldwide demand of literature
Amazon came to online market as an online
Bookseller.
On May 15, 1997, trading under
the NASDAQ stock exchange symbol AMZN,
at a price of US$18.00 per share.
15. History of Amazon(Cont...)
In 2003 Amazon allied with A9.com, a
company focused on researching and
building innovative technology.
From 2014 Amazon started investing in India
as seeing the potential market for online
store.
17. Benchmarks
The "dot-com bubble" burst at the start of the 21st
century and destroyed many e-companies in the
process, but Amazon survived.
In 1999, Time magazine named Bezos, the Person
of the Year when it recognized the company's
success in popularizing online shopping.
20. Summary and Conclusion
E-commerce has become the most
fast and efficient way to earn money
with a very convenient manner.
E-commerce made the world so
shrinked that we can find what we
want in just one click.