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| x Computers | Computer hardware | Editions O'Reilly | |||
| Computer software | Sinclair Research Ltd | ||||
| Video game | Burroughs | ||||
| The Internet | |||||
| x Venture capital |
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Finance | Benchmark Capital |
Venture capital (also known as VC or Venture) is a type of private equity capital typically provided to early-stage, high-potential, growth companies in the interest of generating a return through an eventual realization event such as an IPO or...
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| Kleiner, Perkins, Caufield and Byers | |||||
| Ardesta | |||||
| Draper Fisher Jurvetson | |||||
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| x Robotics | Anybots | ||||
| Odyssey Moon | |||||
| Blastoff.com | |||||
| x Research |
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Translational Genomics Research Institute |
Research is defined as human activity based on intellectual application in the investigation of matter. The primary purpose for applied research is discovering, interpreting, and the development of methods and systems for the advancement of human...
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| Centre for Enterprise | |||||
| REIDIN | |||||
| Celent | |||||
| Eidos Institute | |||||
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| x Mining |
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Mining (except Oil and Gas) | Antofagasta plc |
Mining is the extraction of valuable minerals or other geological materials from the earth, usually from an ore body, vein or (coal) seam. Materials recovered by mining include base metals, precious metals, iron, uranium, coal, diamonds, limestone,...
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| Support Activities for Mining | European Minerals | ||||
| Petroleum | Severstal | ||||
| Metal Ore Mining | Rio Tinto Group | ||||
| Coal Mining | Oxiana Limited | ||||
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| x Consumer electronics |
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Manufacturing | Audio and Video Equipment Manufacturing | Alba |
Consumer electronics include electronic equipment intended for everyday use. Consumer electronics are most often used in entertainment, communications and office productivity. Some products classed as consumer electronics include personal computers,...
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| Electrical and electronic equipment | Semiconductor and Other Electronic Component Manufacturing | Alpine Electronics | |||
| Navigational, Measuring, Electromedical, and Control Instruments Manufacturing | Apple Inc. | ||||
| Manufacturing and Reproducing Magnetic and Optical Media | Archos | ||||
| Computer hardware | Atari | ||||
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| x The Internet |
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Computers | Yahoo! |
The Internet is a global system of interconnected computer networks that use the standardized Internet Protocol Suite (TCP/IP). It is a network of networks that consists of millions of private and public, academic, business, and government networks...
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| Internet Publishing and Broadcasting and Web Search Portals | eBay | ||||
| Tellme Networks | |||||
| Metaweb Technologies, Inc. | |||||
| Automattic | |||||
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| x Real Estate |
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Real Estate and Rental and Leasing | Lessors of Real Estate | Simon Property Group |
Real estate is a legal term that encompasses land along with anything permanently affixed to the land, such as buildings, specifically property that is stationary, or fixed in location. Reference: ''The American Heritage...
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| Finance, insurance, and real estate | Offices of Real Estate Agents and Brokers | Brookfield Properties | |||
| Activities Related to Real Estate | Move Inc. | ||||
| Real Estate Agents and Managers | Westcore Properties | ||||
| Title Abstract and Settlement Offices | iNest Realty Inc | ||||
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| x Search | Computer software | Zigtag Inc. | |||
| RecomMind | |||||
| Yahoo! | |||||
| x Telephony | Telecom Equipment Vendor | Tellme Networks |
In telecommunication, telephony (pronounced /təˈlɛfəni/ or teh-LEH-fuh-nee) encompasses the general use of equipment to provide voice communication over distances, specifically by connecting telephones to each other.
Telephones were originally...
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| UCN Inc. | |||||
| SMS.ac, Inc. | |||||
| PlusNet | |||||
| United World Telecom | |||||
| x Interactive Design | Schematic | ||||
| x Automobile |
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Automobile and Light Duty Motor Vehicle Manufacturing | Motor Vehicles and Passenger Car Bodies (automobiles) | MG Rover Group |
About 250 million vehicles are in the United States. Around the world, there were about 806 million cars and light trucks on the road in 2007; they burn over 260 billion gallons of gasoline and diesel fuel yearly. The automotive industry designs,...
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| Chrysler LLC | |||||
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| x Video game |
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Computers | Video game developer | Epyx |
A video game is an electronic game that involves interaction with a user interface to generate visual feedback on a video device. The word video in video game traditionally referred to a raster display device. However, with the popular use of the...
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| Video game publisher | LucasArts | ||||
| Double Fine Productions | |||||
| Delphine Software International | |||||
| U.S. Gold | |||||
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| x Assistive technology |
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Origin Instruments Corporation |
Assistive technology (AT) is a generic term that includes assistive, adaptive, and rehabilitative devices for people with disabilities and includes the process used in selecting, locating, and using them.
The Technology-Related Assistance for...
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| Center for Assistive Technology and Environmental Access | |||||
| x 3D Tracking | Origin Instruments Corporation | ||||
| x 3D Metrology | Origin Instruments Corporation | ||||
| x Telecommunications |
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Communications | Provider (Operator) | TELUS |
Telecommunication is the assisted transmission over a distance for the purpose of communication. In earlier times, this may have involved the use of smoke signals, drums, semaphore, flags or heliograph. In modern times, telecommunication typically...
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| Media | Telecom Software Vendor | AT&T | |||
| System Integrator | Verizon Communications | ||||
| Telecom Equipment Vendor | Bell Canada Enterprises | ||||
| Mobile network operator | MTS Allstream | ||||
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| x Information technology |
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Professional, Scientific, and Technical Services | Geographic Information System | Safari Books Online |
Information technology (IT), as defined by the Information Technology Association of America (ITAA), is "the study, design, development, implementation, support or management of computer-based information systems, particularly software applications...
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| Business services | Computer Systems Design and Related Services | General Magic | |||
| Custom Computer Programming Services | CGI Group | ||||
| Prepackaged Software | Talis | ||||
| Computer Integrated Systems Design | Sinu | ||||
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| x Microelectronics | IMEC |
Microelectronics is a subfield of electronics. Microelectronics, as the name suggests, is related to the study and manufacture, or microfabrication, of electronic components which are very small (usually micrometre-scale or smaller, but not always)....
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| x Semiconductor |
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Semiconductor and Other Electronic Component Manufacturing | IMEC |
Semiconductor is a material that has a resistivity value between that of a conductor and an insulator. The conductivity of a semiconductor material can be varied under an external electrical field. Devices made from semiconductor materials are the...
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| Electrical and electronic equipment | Spreadtrum Communications | ||||
| Sarnoff Corporation | |||||
| Axiom Microdevices | |||||
| Optichron | |||||
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| x Hospitality |
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Accommodation and Food Services | Traveler Accommodation | Hoshi Ryokan |
Hospitality refers to the relationship process between a guest and a host, and it also refers to the act or practice of being hospitable, that is, the reception and entertainment of guests, visitors, or strangers, with liberality and goodwill....
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| Service industries | RV (Recreational Vehicle) Parks and Recreational Camps | Landry's Restaurants, Inc. | |||
| Rooming and Boarding Houses | New Zealand Natural | ||||
| Hotels and Motels | Harrah's Entertainment | ||||
| Recreational and Vacation Camps (except Campgrounds) | Radisson Hotels | ||||
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| x Financial Services |
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Finance, insurance, and real estate | Monetary Authorities-Central Bank | Merrill Lynch |
Financial services refer to services provided by the finance industry. The finance industry encompasses a broad range of organizations that deal with the management of money. Among these organizations are banks, credit card companies, insurance...
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| Credit Intermediation and Related Activities | Goldman Sachs | ||||
| Insurance Carriers and Related Activities | Citibank | ||||
| Funds, Trusts, and Other Financial Vehicles | Kohlberg Kravis Roberts & Co. | ||||
| Investment banking | First International Bank | ||||
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| x Computer software | Computers | Collaborative software | Microsoft |
Computer software, or just software is a general term used to describe a collection of computer programs, procedures and documentation that perform some tasks on a computer system.
The term includes:
"Software" is sometimes used in a broader...
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| Publishing | Semantic Web | ||||
| Artificial intelligence | IBM | ||||
| Social Networking Software | Urbancode | ||||
| Search | Zimbra | ||||
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| x Advertising |
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Professional, Scientific, and Technical Services | Advertising Agencies |
Advertising is a form of communication that typically attempts to persuade potential customers to purchase or to consume more of a particular brand of product or service. “While now central to the contemporary global economy and the reproduction of...
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| Public Relations Agencies | Shampoodle | ||||
| Media Buying Agencies | KONO | ||||
| Media Representatives | adap.tv | ||||
| Display Advertising | AdBrite | ||||
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| x Biotechnology |
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Research and Development in the Physical, Engineering, and Life Sciences | Stem Cell Research | 23andMe |
Biotechnology is technology based on biology, especially when used in agriculture, food science, and medicine. United Nations Convention on Biological Diversity defines biotechnology as:
Biotechnology is often used to refer to genetic engineering...
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| 3M | |||||
| 454 Life Sciences | |||||
| Aastrom Biosciences, Inc. | |||||
| Abbott Laboratories | |||||
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| x Computer hardware |
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Computers | Computer and Peripheral Equipment Manufacturing | Hewlett-Packard |
A personal computer is made up of multiple physical components of computer hardware, upon which can be installed an operating system and a multitude of software to perform the operator's desired functions.
Though a PC comes in many different form...
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| Consumer electronics | Electronic Computer Manufacturing | Dell | |||
| Machinery Manufacturing | Computer Storage Device Manufacturing | Apple Inc. | |||
| Computer Terminal Manufacturing | IBM | ||||
| Computer Peripheral Equipment, NEC | EMC Corporation | ||||
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| x Green energy |
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Energy | Wind power | Bloom Energy |
Green energy is the term used to describe sources of energy that are considered to be environmentally friendly and non-polluting, such as geothermal, wind, solar, and hydro. Sometimes nuclear power is also considered a green energy source. Green...
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| Solar power | Altra Biofuels | ||||
| Geothermal power | Mascoma Corporation | ||||
| Tidal power | Makani Power | ||||
| Hydropower | Pacific Hydro | ||||
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| x Publishing |
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Media | Newspaper, Periodical, Book, and Directory Publishers | Penton Media |
Publishing is the process of production and dissemination of literature or information – the activity of making information available for public view. In some cases authors may be their own publishers, meaning: originators and developers of content...
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| Computer software | Condé Nast Publications | ||||
| CMP Media | |||||
| Editions O'Reilly | |||||
| Time Warner | |||||
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| x Energy | Green energy | Steorn | |||
| Petroleum | Arbusto Energy | ||||
| Wind power | Origin Energy | ||||
| Solar power | Makani Power | ||||
| Geothermal power | Pacific Hydro | ||||
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| x Petroleum |
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Energy | Oil and Gas Extraction | Gulf Oil |
Petroleum (L. petroleum, from Greek πετρέλαιον, lit. "rock oil") or crude oil is a naturally occurring, flammable liquid found in rock formations in the Earth consisting of a complex mixture of hydrocarbons of various molecular weights, plus other...
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| Mining | Crude Petroleum and Natural Gas Extraction | HydroTexaco | |||
| Drilling Oil and Gas Wells | Petroleum Geo-Services | ||||
| Oil and Gas Field Exploration Services | SeaDrill | ||||
| Rosneft | |||||
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| x Hedge fund |
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Finance | Citadel Investment Group |
A hedge fund is an investment fund open to a limited range of investors that is permitted by regulators to undertake a wider range of investment and trading activities than other investment funds and pays a performance fee to its investment manager....
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| D. E. Shaw & Co | |||||
| Fortress Investment Group | |||||
| Eton Park Capital Management | |||||
| SAC Capital Partners | |||||
| x Investment banking |
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Financial Services | Securities and Commodity Contracts Intermediation and Brokerage | Evercore Partners |
An investment bank is a financial institution that raises capital, trades in securities and manages corporate mergers and acquisitions. Investment banks profit from companies and governments by raising money through issuing and selling securities in...
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| Finance, insurance, and real estate | Securities and Commodity Exchanges | Adams Harkness | |||
| Finance | Other Financial Investment Activities | Edelweiss Capital | |||
| Security Brokers, Dealers, and Flotation Companies | The McLean Group | ||||
| Commodity Contracts Brokers and Dealers | Bank AL Habib | ||||
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| x Commercial bank |
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Depository Credit Intermediation | Commercial Banking | Zopa |
A commercial bank is a type of financial intermediary and a type of bank. Commercial banking is also known as business banking. It is a bank that provides checking accounts, savings accounts, and money market accounts and that accepts time deposits....
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| Finance | National Commercial Banks (banking) | Bank of India | |||
| State Commercial Banks (commercial banking) | NMGB | ||||
| Commercial Banks, NEC | SMGB | ||||
| Branches and Agencies of Foreign Banks (branches) | Union Bank of India | ||||
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| x Retail banking | Finance | First International Bank |
Retail banking refers to banking in which banking institutions execute transactions directly with consumers, rather than corporations or other banks. Services offered include: savings and checking accounts, mortgages, personal loans, debit cards,...
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| United International Bank | |||||
| Egg Banking plc | |||||
| Community CPS Australia | |||||
| Commonwealth Bank of Australia | |||||
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| x Online dating service |
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Baihe |
Online dating or Internet dating is a dating system which allows individuals, couples and groups to make contact and communicate with each other over the Internet, usually with the objective of developing a personal romantic or sexual relationship....
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| Adam4Adam | |||||
| Plentyoffish Media Inc. | |||||
| x Content management system | Alfresco | ||||
| Drupal Association | |||||
| Bryght Northern Research, Incorporated | |||||
| Nstein | |||||
| Flatirons Solutions | |||||
| x Open-source software |
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Ad.WRIGHT Communications Pte Ltd | DotNetNuke Corporation |
Open source software (OSS) is defined as computer software for which the source code and certain other rights normally reserved for copyright holders are provided under a software license that meets the Open Source Definition or that is in the...
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| Alfresco | |||||
| Socialtext, Inc. | |||||
| Zimbra | |||||
| Mozilla Corporation | |||||
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| x Transportation | Air Transportation | Vueling Airlines |
Companies in this industry provide transportation of goods and people over rail, water, air, and road.
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| Rail Transportation | Air Canada | ||||
| Water Transportation | WestJet | ||||
| Truck Transportation | American Airlines | ||||
| Transit and Ground Passenger Transportation | United Airlines | ||||
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| x Service |
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Automattic |
A service is the diametrically opposed non-material counterpiece of a physical good. A service provision comprises a sequence of activities that does not result in ownership of the outcome, and this is what fundamentally differentiates it from...
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| Focus Media Holding | |||||
| Berjaya Group | |||||
| Euro RSCG | |||||
| Trilogy | |||||
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| x Construction | Construction of Buildings | Morphosis |
In the fields of architecture and civil engineering, construction is a process that consists of the building or assembling of infrastructure. Far from being a single activity, large scale construction is a feat of multitasking. Normally the job is...
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| Heavy and Civil Engineering Construction | Sir Robert McAlpine | ||||
| Specialty Trade Contractors | Ranhill Berhad | ||||
| Structural engineering | Native American Services Corp. | ||||
| Hdil | |||||
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| x Free software |
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Drupal Association |
Free software or software libre is software that can be used, studied, and modified without restriction, and which can be copied and redistributed in modified or unmodified form either without restriction, or with minimal restrictions only to ensure...
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| Bryght Northern Research, Incorporated | |||||
| Async Open Source | |||||
| Open Invention Network | |||||
| Canonical Ltd. | |||||
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| x Digital Music | IODA | ||||
| x Video game developer |
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Video game | Team17 |
A video game developer is a software developer (a business or an individual) that creates video games. A developer may specialize in a certain video game console, such as Sony's PlayStation 3, Microsoft's Xbox 360, Nintendo's Wii, or may develop for...
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| Presto Studios | |||||
| Ubisoft | |||||
| Vic Tokai | |||||
| Smart Bomb Interactive | |||||
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| x Consumer Electronics Technical Support | Electronic and Precision Equipment Repair and Maintenance | Radio and Television Repair Shops (other stereo, TV, VCR, and radio) | FixYa | ||
| Electrical and Electronic Repair Shops, NEC (other consumer equipment except computer, TV, stereo, VCR, and radio) | |||||
| Repair Shops and Related Services, NEC (camera repair) | |||||
| x Social Networking Software | Computer software | Jaxtr |
Social Networking Software is a software platform, generally open source and heavily modulated. It is used to administer a social network service.
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| Socialtext, Inc. | |||||
| Kiko | |||||
| Hi5 Networks | |||||
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| x Search engine |
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Exalead |
a listing of some of the best internet search engines
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| Microsoft | |||||
| Jobster | |||||
| Technorati | |||||
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| x Online recruiting | Jobster | ||||
| x Bookselling |
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Retail | Title Wave Books |
The bookselling industry is comprised of retailers specializing in the sale of fiction and non-fiction literature. In the United States the industry landscape is dominated by large chains such as Barnes & Noble with the independent sector...
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| Compendium Books | |||||
| WWE Books | |||||
| Soft Bank Creative | |||||
| Valora | |||||
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| x Retail |
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Bookselling | Title Wave Books |
Retailing consists of the sale of goods or merchandise from a fixed location, such as a department store, boutique or kiosk, or by post, in small or individual lots for direct consumption by the purchaser. Retailing may include subordinated services...
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| Sporting Goods, Hobby, Book, and Music Stores | Gap Inc. | ||||
| General Merchandise Stores | Dunnes Stores | ||||
| Miscellaneous Store Retailers | Dollar Tree | ||||
| Nonstore Retailers | Framenti | ||||
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| x Business-to-business |
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Penton Media |
Business-to-business involves the transaction of goods or services between businesses, as opposed to relations between businesses and other groups, for example consumers or public administration. B2B transactions tend to take place within one...
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| CMP Media | |||||
| GenieKnows | |||||
| x Management consulting | Consulting | Administrative Management and General Management Consulting Services | Bain & Company |
Management consulting refers to both the industry of, and the practice of, helping organizations improve their performance, primarily through the analysis of existing business problems and development of plans for improvement.
Organizations hire the...
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| Human Resources Consulting Services | Ablona | ||||
| Process, Physical Distribution, and Logistics Consulting Services | Industrial Data and Information Inc. IDII | ||||
| Other Management Consulting Services | Accenture | ||||
| Marketing | Gov4n6 | ||||
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| x Consulting | Professional, Scientific, and Technical Services | Environmental Consulting Services | Web Koncept Ltd. | ||
| Engineering and management services | Other Scientific and Technical Consulting Services | BEKK Consulting | |||
| Management consulting | LoonSoft | ||||
| Information technology consulting | Microsoft Oy | ||||
| Adaptive Path | |||||
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| x Environmental Consulting | Environmental Consulting Services | ||||
| x Wiki |
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Collaborative software | Socialtext, Inc. |
A wiki is a website that uses wiki software, allowing the easy creation and editing of any number of interlinked Web pages, using a simplified markup language. Wikis are often used to create collaborative websites and to power community websites....
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| x Web-based email | Zimbra |
Webmail (or Web-based e-mail) is an e-mail service intended to be primarily accessed via a web browser, as opposed to through an e-mail client, such as Microsoft Outlook, Mozilla's Thunderbird, or Apple Inc.'s Mail. Very popular webmail providers...
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| x Computer | Sun Microsystems | ||||
| Digital Equipment Corporation | |||||
| Solnet Solutions | |||||
| RealNetworks | |||||
| Raspberry Software | |||||
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| x Media | Music Industry | Turner Broadcasting |
In the arts, media (plural of medium) are the materials and techniques used by an artist to produce a work.
In drawing, "media" refers to the type of held dry tool used and the base onto which it is transferred. The "held dry tool" normally means a...
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| Motion Picture and Sound Recording Industries | Time Warner | ||||
| Broadcasting (except Internet) | Yahoo! | ||||
| Data Processing, Hosting and Related Services | The Walt Disney Company | ||||
| Other Information Services | Spark Media Networks Pty Ltd | ||||
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| x Golf Course | Other Amusement and Recreation Industries | Golf Courses and Country Clubs | Bear Mountain Golf and Country Club | ||
| Public Golf Courses | |||||
| Membership Sports and Recreation Clubs (golf clubs) | |||||
| x Road bicycle |
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Pinarello |
Not to be confused with Roadster (bicycle)
A road bicycle is a synonym for the term racing bicycle. In general road bicycles have drop handlebars and multiple gears, although there are single and fixed gear varieties.
It is also used less formally...
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| Trek Bicycle Corporation | |||||
| Avanti | |||||
| Giant Bicycles Australia | |||||
| x Clothing |
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Manufacturing | Apparel Knitting Mills | Nordstrom |
A feature of nearly all human societies is the wearing of clothing or clothes, a category encompassing a wide variety of materials that cover the body. The primary purpose of clothing is functional, as a protection from the elements. Clothes enhance...
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| Cut and Sew Apparel Manufacturing | Dark Garden | ||||
| Apparel Accessories and Other Apparel Manufacturing | Framenti | ||||
| Men's and Boys' Suits, Coats, and Overcoats | 55dsl | ||||
| Women's, Misses', and Juniors' Blouses and Shirts | Cospa | ||||
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