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Amazon Dethrones Walmart as World’s Biggest Company by Sales

The milestone attests to the massive scale the e-commerce and cloud-computing giant has achieved since its humble beginnings in 1994 as an online bookseller.
Carrera ‘smart’ glasses set for US launch by Safilo and Amazon.
Amazon is the biggest online retailer, with its website and mobile apps attracting 2.7 billion visits each month. (Shutterstock)

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