10 Most Powerful and Influential Companies In America

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3. Amazon.com, Inc. (NASDAQ:AMZN)

Market Cap: $406 billion

Amazon.com, Inc. (NASDAQ:AMZN) ranks 3rd in our list of most powerful and influential companies in America. It has emerged as one of the most popular retailers in the world, outrunning many more well-established brick-and-mortar companies. The eCommerce giant processes millions of transactions per day and is expanding into other businesses, such as transportation and shipping. Amazon.com, Inc. (NASDAQ:AMZN)’s large userbase also helped it get involved in content delivery, with its Prime Video platform having recently been made available to a majority of countries on earth. Amazon.com, Inc. (NASDAQ:AMZN) had revenue of $136 billion in 2016 and employs 341,400 people both full- and part-time as of the end of last year.

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