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  • SHOPPING SITES AND SERVICES

    • Amazon Art
      Amazon's store where artists can sell their art or prints in the marketplace.
    • Amazon Handmade
      Amazon's version of Etsy where artisans can sell their handcrafted goods in the marketplace.
    • Amazon Business
      It's like Amazon, but for business customers.
    • Amazon Advertising
      Third-party merchants on Amazon's platform must pay for advertising to promote their listings. The online commerce market-research firm eMarketer projects that Amazon's US ad business will grow by more than 50% this year, and its market share will increase to 8.8% from roughly 4%.
    • Amazon Renewed
      A storefront on Amazon for refurbished products with a warranty.
    • Amazon Spark
      A mobile feature available to Prime members that allows you to discover and shop for products. Basically Pinterest, but on Amazon.
    • Amazon Second Chance
      A storefront on Amazon's marketplace for secondhand goods.
    • Amazon Vine
      An invite-only program for trusted reviewers who are given free products to review.
    • Woot!
      A daily deals site and subsidiary of Amazon.
    • Souq.com
      Considered the Amazon of the Arab world, Souq was an English- and Arabic-language e-commerce platform. Amazon bought the company in 2017 for $580 million. In 2017, Souq bought Wing.ae, which develops next-day delivery networks for e-commerce sites. It later became Amazon.ae.
    • Amazon Warehouse
      This program offers shoppers or businesses a chance to buy used or slightly damaged merchandise from Amazon at a discount.
    • Shopbop
      A global online retail site and store on Amazon aimed at style inspiration and discovery. Shopbop offers handpicked women's clothes and accessories from over 1,000 established and emerging designers.
    • Quidsi
      Amazon acquired this parent company of Diapers.com, Soap.com, and BeautyBar.com in 2010. It shut down the company seven years afterward because it was unprofitable.
    • SmallParts.com
      Amazon acquired SmallParts.com in 2005 and made it a new arm of the company, called AmazonSupply, which became American Business in 2015.
    • Junglee
      A shopping service launched by Amazon in India in 2012 where customers can find millions of products, read product and seller reviews, and check prices across a wide variety of product categories.
    • DPReview
      A site owned by Amazon aimed at providing content and reviews about digital photography gear across the world.

    WEB SERVICES

    • Alexa Internet
      Acquired by Amazon in 1999, this Amazon subsidiary, based in California, provides companies with commercial web traffic data and analytics.
    • Amazon Web Services (AWS)
      A secure cloud services platform, offering compute power, database storage, content delivery, and other services to businesses, startups, and government and educational entities. Clients include Netflix, Comcast, the CDC, FDA, US State Department, and PBS. Amazon has enhanced the products available through AWS through the acquisition of startups, for example:
    • Elemental
      Now AWS Elemental, Elemental Technologies, a backend mobile video service, was acquired by Amazon in 2015.
    • Macie
      Amazon developed this data security service after acquiring the security startup Harvest.ai.
    • Rekognition
      Rekognition is Amazon's controversial facial-recognition tool, one of AWS's cloud-based services for developers.
    • Safaba
      Amazon reportedly acquired the machine translation startup in 2015 to provide developers with this tech through AWS to make their products available in multiple languages. The team was based in Amazon's SouthSide Works office in Pittsburgh, which now works on Amazon Alexa technology and machine translation.
    • Annapurna Labs
      Amazon bought Annapurna Labs, an Israel-based semiconductor startup, in 2015 for $370 million. The lab's chip technology was used to improve Amazon's cloud business by making it more cost-effective to run.
    • Amazon Photos
      A free online photo storage service available to Prime members that allows them to save and share unlimited photos on their desktop, mobile, and tablet devices.
    • Amazon Drive
      Formerly known as Cloud Drive, Amazon Drive is a cloud storage application managed by Amazon.
  • Vitec Imaging Solutions, the company that owns Gitzo, Lowepro, Manfrotto, Joby, Syrp, and many other photographic brands, has announced that it has acquired Savage Universal, a major manufacturer of studio backdrops.

    Savage Universal, based in Phoenix, Arizona, is one of the global market leaders in photo backgrounds (otherwise known as backdrops) for professional studios. The company has been producing a wide range of seamless paper backdrops for photographers since 1937.lication managed by Amazon.