People are just realising how Amazon got its name – after original ‘creepy’ brand was cancelled

WE’VE all heard of Amazon, but how did it get its name – and was it always called that? To find out, we need to travel back a few decades to when Amazon first began. 1 Amazon wasn’t always the name of Jeff Bezos’ online bookstore Credit: Amazon What was Amazon originally called? Albuquerque, New Mexico-born Jeff Bezos is one of the world’s richest humans thanks to Amazon. But the business started as a simple online bookstore when it was founded way back on July 5, 1994. Bezos started the company in his garage in Bellevue, Washington. The company was… Read Full Article