Amazon to open software development centre in Chennai
By Our Corporate Bureau | 21 Oct 2005
Mumbai: Amazon.com, Inc. (NASDAQ: AMZN), the global online shopping site, will open a software development centre in Chennai. To be called Amazon Development Centre, it will focus on developing new and innovative web site features to help Amazon''s customers around the world find and discover anything they want to buy online.
The centre will manage all technology aspects of the website''s features developed here. This includes idea generation, analysis and technical design, as well as front, middle and back-tier software development across a variety of architectures and technologies.
Chennai will be the fourth Amazon.com international software development centre. Amazon.com also has centres in Edinburgh, Scotland; Cape Town, South Africa; and Bangalore, India.
A Fortune 500 company based in Seattle, opened on the world wide web in July 1995 and today offers, what it calls "earth''s biggest selection" and seeks to be the most customer-centric company on earth, where customers can find and discover anything they might want to buy online at the lowest possible prices.
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