Amazon.com was incorporated in 1994; as of 2024, it was the largest e-commerce retailer in the U.S. It is also a player in the grocery business, owing in part to its ownership of the Whole Foods supermarket chain. The company offers cloud services through its Amazon Web Services segment. Amazon develops and produces media content, much of which it streams through its Amazon Prime membership program; in 2021, it acquired the studio Metro-Goldwyn-Mayer (MGM). Amazon also makes and sells electro...| Fortune
Routinely ranked as one of the world’s most valuable companies by market capitalization, the software giant makes the popular Windows PC operating system and the Microsoft 365 suite of business productivity software. It also runs the Microsoft Azure cloud computing service, and owns the Xbox gaming platform, the code repository GitHub, and the professional social network LinkedIn. Cofounded by Bill Gates in 1975, Microsoft operates data centers around the globe to support its cloud computin...| Fortune