Investment & Subsidiaries

Investment

• 2008: Engine Yard, a Ruby-on-Rails platform as a service (PaaS) company.
• 2010: LivingSocial, a local deal site.
• 2014: Acquired the '.buy' domain in an auction for $4,588,888
• 2014: Amazon announces a US$2 billion investment in India
• 2016: Amazon announces an additional US$3 billion investment in India
• 2017: Between May and July 2017, Amazon had invested ₹2,000 crore (US$300 million) in India with ₹130 crore (US$19 million) invested into its payment arm Amazon Pay India. In November 2017, Amazon invested another ₹2,900 crore (US$430 million) in the Indian arm.2018: In January, an additional sum of ₹2,000 crore (US$300 million) was invested by Amazon in its Indian arm.

 

Subsidiaries

• 2003: A9.com, a company focused on researching and building innovative technology.
• 2004: Lab126, developers of integrated consumer electronics such as the Kindle.
• 2007: Endless.com, an e-commerce brand focusing on shoes. (discontinued 2012)
• 2007: Brilliance Audio, the largest independent audiobook producer in the U.S.
• 2009: CreateSpace, self-publishing services for independent content creators, publishers, film studios and music labels; created by the internal merger of CustomFlix (on-demand DVDs for independent filmmakers) and BookSurge (self-publishing, on-demand printing, online distribution), both originally acquired 2005.
  

Amazon owns over 40 subsidiaries, including Zappos, Shopbop, Diapers.com, Kiva Systems (now Amazon Robotics), Audible, Goodreads, Teachstreet and IMDb.