Shares in the company Amazon have gone past the $1,000 mark for the first time in its 20-year history as a publicly-traded company.
It is a major new milestone for the online seller, which has grown into one of the world’s biggest companies in terms of market value.
Amazon's market capitalization is reported to have reached around $500 billion this week.
Based in Seattle, the company began mainly as a bookseller on the web in 1995.
