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| x Computers | Computer hardware | ||||
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| x Venture capital |
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Finance |
Venture capital (VC) is financial capital provided to early-stage, high-potential, high risk, growth startup companies. The venture capital fund makes money by owning equity in the companies it invests in, which usually have a novel technology or...
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| x Robotics |
Incormações sob Robótica
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| x Research |
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Research is the systematic investigation into existing or new knowledge. It is used to establish or confirm facts, reaffirm the results of previous work, solve new or existing problems, support theorems, or develop new theories. A research project...
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| x Mining |
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Mining | Mining (except Oil and Gas) |
Mining is the extraction of valuable minerals or other geological materials from the earth, from an ore body, vein or (coal) seam. This term also includes the removal of soil. Materials recovered by mining include base metals, precious metals, iron,...
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| x Consumer electronics | 334 | Manufacturing | Audio and Video Equipment Manufacturing |
Consumer electronics are electronic equipment intended for everyday use, most often in entertainment, communications and office productivity. Radio broadcasting in the early 20th century brought the first major consumer product, the broadcast...
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| Electrical and electronic equipment | Semiconductor and Other Electronic Component Manufacturing | ||||
| Navigational, Measuring, Electromedical, and Control Instruments Manufacturing | |||||
| Manufacturing and Reproducing Magnetic and Optical Media | |||||
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| x Real Estate |
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531 | Real Estate and Rental and Leasing | Lessors of Real Estate |
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 | ||||
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| Title Abstract and Settlement Offices | |||||
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| x Search | Computer software | ||||
| x Telephony | Telecom Equipment Vendor |
In telecommunications, telephony ( /təˈlɛfəni/ tə-LEF-ə-nee) encompasses the general use of equipment to provide communication over distances, specifically by connecting telephones to each other. The technology is associated with the electronic...
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| x Automobile |
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336111 | Automobile and Light Duty Motor Vehicle Manufacturing | Motor Vehicles and Passenger Car Bodies (automobiles) |
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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Computers | Video game developer |
A video game is an electronic game that involves human 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, but following popularization of...
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| x Assistive technology |
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Assistive technology or adaptive technology (AT) is an umbrella term that includes assistive, adaptive, and rehabilitative devices for people with disabilities and also includes the process used in selecting, locating, and using them. AT promotes...
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| x Telecommunications |
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517 | Communications | Provider (Operator) |
Telecommunication is the transmission of information over significant distances to communicate. In earlier times, telecommunications involved the use of visual signals, such as beacons, smoke signals, semaphore telegraphs, signal flags, and optical...
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| Media | Telecom Software Vendor | ||||
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| x Information technology |
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5415 | Professional, Scientific, and Technical Services | Geographic Information System |
Information Technology (IT) is the branch of engineering that deals with the use of computers and telecommunications to store, retrieve and transmit information. The acquisition, processing, storage and dissemination of vocal, pictorial, textual and...
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| Business services | Computer Systems Design and Related Services | ||||
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| x Microelectronics |
Microelectronics is a subfield of electronics. As the name suggests, microelectronics relates to the study and manufacture (or microfabrication) of very small electronic designs and components. Usually, but not always, this means micrometre-scale or...
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| x Hospitality |
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721 | Accommodation and Food Services | Traveler Accommodation |
Hospitality is the relationship between guest and host, or the act or practice of being hospitable. Specifically, this includes the reception and entertainment of guests, visitors, or strangers, resorts, membership clubs, conventions, attractions,...
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| Service industries | RV (Recreational Vehicle) Parks and Recreational Camps | ||||
| Rooming and Boarding Houses | |||||
| Hotels and Motels | |||||
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| x Financial Services |
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52 | Finance, insurance, and real estate | Monetary Authorities-Central Bank |
Financial services are the economic services provided by the finance industry, which encompasses a broad range of organizations that manage money, including credit unions, banks, credit card companies, insurance companies, consumer finance companies...
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| Insurance Carriers and Related Activities | |||||
| Funds, Trusts, and Other Financial Vehicles | |||||
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| x Computer software | 5112 | Computers | Collaborative software |
Computer software, or just software, is a collection of computer programs and related data that provides the instructions for telling a computer what to do and how to do it. Software refers to one or more computer programs and data held in the...
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| Publishing | Semantic Web-The Next Gen Web | ||||
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| x Advertising |
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5418 | Professional, Scientific, and Technical Services | Advertising Agencies |
Advertising is a form of communication used to encourage or persuade an audience (viewers, readers or listeners. Sometimes a specific group of people.) to continue or take some new action. Most commonly, the desired result is to drive consumer...
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| x Biotechnology |
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541711 | Research and Development in the Physical, Engineering, and Life Sciences | Stem Cell Research |
Biotechnology (sometimes shortened to "biotech") is a field of applied biology that involves the use of living organisms and bioprocesses in engineering, technology, medicine and other fields requiring bioproducts. Biotechnology also utilizes these...
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| x Computer hardware |
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3341 | Computers | Computer and Peripheral Equipment Manufacturing |
Computer hardware is the collection of physical elements that comprise a computer system.
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| Consumer electronics | Electronic Computer Manufacturing | ||||
| Machinery Manufacturing | Computer Storage Device Manufacturing | ||||
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| Computer Peripheral Equipment, NEC | |||||
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| x Green energy |
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Energy | Wind power |
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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| x Publishing |
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511 | Media | Newspaper, Periodical, Book, and Directory Publishers |
Publishing is the process of production and dissemination of literature, music, or information — the activity of making information available to the general public. In some cases, authors may be their own publishers, meaning: originators and...
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| x Energy | Green energy | ||||
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| x Petroleum |
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211 | Energy | Oil and Gas Extraction |
Petroleum (L. petroleum, from Greek: petra (rock) + Latin: oleum (oil)) or crude oil is a naturally occurring, flammable liquid consisting of a complex mixture of hydrocarbons of various molecular weights and other liquid organic compounds, that are...
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| Mining | Crude Petroleum and Natural Gas Extraction | ||||
| Drilling Oil and Gas Wells | |||||
| Oil and Gas Field Exploration Services | |||||
| x Hedge fund |
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Finance |
A hedge fund is an investment fund that can undertake a wider range of investment and trading activities than other funds, but which is only open for investment from particular types of investors specified by regulators. These investors are...
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| x Investment banking |
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523 | Financial Services | Securities and Commodity Contracts Intermediation and Brokerage |
An investment bank is a financial institution that assists individuals, corporations and governments in raising capital by underwriting and/or acting as the client's agent in the issuance of securities. An investment bank may also assist companies...
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| Finance, insurance, and real estate | Securities and Commodity Exchanges | ||||
| Finance | Other Financial Investment Activities | ||||
| Security Brokers, Dealers, and Flotation Companies | |||||
| Commodity Contracts Brokers and Dealers | |||||
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| x Commercial bank |
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52211 | Depository Credit Intermediation | Commercial Banking |
A commercial bank (or business bank) is a type of financial institution and intermediary. It is a bank that provides transactional, savings, and money market accounts and that accepts time deposits.
The name bank derives from the Italian word banco ...
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| Finance | National Commercial Banks (banking) | ||||
| State Commercial Banks (commercial banking) | |||||
| Commercial Banks, NEC | |||||
| Branches and Agencies of Foreign Banks (branches) | |||||
| x Retail banking | Finance |
Retail banking is banking in which banking institutions execute transactions directly with consumers, rather than corporations or other banks. Services offered include: savings and transactional accounts, mortgages, personal loans, debit cards,...
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| x Online dating service |
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Online dating (OD) 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...
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| x Open-source software | OmicronLab |
Open-source software (OSS) is computer software that is available in source code form: the source code and certain other rights normally reserved for copyright holders are provided under an open-source license that permits users to study, change,...
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| x Transportation | 48 | Air Transportation |
Companies in this industry provide transportation of goods and people over rail, water, air, and road.
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| x Service |
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In economics, a service is an intangible commodity. More specifically, services are an intangible equivalent of economic goods.
Service provision is often an economic activity where the buyer does not generally, except by exclusive contract, obtain...
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| x Construction | 23 | Construction of Buildings |
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 human multitasking. Normally, the...
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| Heavy and Civil Engineering Construction | |||||
| Specialty Trade Contractors | |||||
| Structural engineering | |||||
| x Free software |
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Free software, software libre or libre software 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 restrictions that...
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| x Video game developer | Video game |
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 Nintendo's Wii, Microsoft's Xbox 360, Sony's PlayStation 3, or may develop for...
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| x Consumer Electronics Technical Support | 811211 | Electronic and Precision Equipment Repair and Maintenance | Radio and Television Repair Shops (other stereo, TV, VCR, and radio) | ||
| 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 |
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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a listing of some of the best internet search engines
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| x Online recruiting | |||||
| x Retail |
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45 | Sporting Goods, Hobby, Book, and Music Stores |
Retail is the sale of goods and services from individuals or businesses to the end-user. Retailers are part of an integrated system called the supply-chain. A retailer purchases goods or products in large quantities from manufacturers or directly...
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| 44 | General Merchandise Stores | ||||
| Miscellaneous Store Retailers | |||||
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| Motor Vehicle and Parts Dealers | |||||
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| x Business-to-business |
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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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| x Management consulting | 54161 | Consulting | Administrative Management and General Management Consulting Services |
Management consulting refers to the practice of helping organisations to improve their performance, primarily through the analysis of existing organisational problems and development of plans for improvement. Organisations may draw upon the services...
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| Process, Physical Distribution, and Logistics Consulting Services | |||||
| Other Management Consulting Services | |||||
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| x Consulting | 5416 | Professional, Scientific, and Technical Services | Environmental Consulting Services | ||
| Engineering and management services | Other Scientific and Technical Consulting Services | ||||
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| x Environmental Consulting | 541620 | Environmental Consulting Services | |||
| x Wiki |
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Collaborative software |
A wiki (/ˈwɪkiː/ WIK-ee) is a website whose users can add, modify, or delete its content via a web browser using a simplified markup language or a rich-text editor. Wikis are powered by wiki software. Most are created collaboratively.
Wikis may...
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| x Web-based email |
The term Webmail (or Web-based email) is used to describe two things. One use of the word is to describe a Webmail client: an email client implemented as a web application accessed via a web browser. This article focuses in this use of the term. The...
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| x Golf Course | 71391 | Other Amusement and Recreation Industries | Golf Courses and Country Clubs | ||
| Public Golf Courses | |||||
| Membership Sports and Recreation Clubs (golf clubs) | |||||
| x Road bicycle |
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The term road bicycle is used to describe bicycles built for traveling at speed on paved roads. Some sources use the term to mean racing bicycle. Other sources specifically exclude racing bicycles from the definition, using the term to mean a...
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| x Clothing |
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315 | Manufacturing | Apparel Knitting Mills |
Clothing is a term that refers to a covering for the human body that is worn. The wearing of clothing is exclusively a human characteristic and is a feature of nearly all human societies. The amount and type of clothing worn depends on physical,...
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| Apparel Accessories and Other Apparel Manufacturing | |||||
| Men's and Boys' Suits, Coats, and Overcoats | |||||
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| x Employment agency | 561311 | Employment Placement Agencies and Executive Search Services |
An employment agency is an organization which matches employers to employees. In all developed countries there is a publicly funded employment agency and multiple private businesses which also act as employment agencies.
One of the oldest references...
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Entertainment is an action, event or activity that aims to entertain, amuse and interest a public ("public" can consist of one person). This audience can have a passive role, as in the case of a play, a show on a TV or a movie, or active, as in the...
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| x Solar power |
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Green energy |
Solar energy, radiant light and heat from the sun, has been harnessed by humans since ancient times using a range of ever-evolving technologies. Solar energy technologies include solar heating, solar photovoltaics, solar thermal electricity and...
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