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2. List of mergers and acquisitions by Yahoo! - Wikipedia

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   Yahoo's first acquisition was the purchase of Net Controls, a web search engine company, in September 1997 for US$1.4 million. As of April 2008, the company's largest acquisition is the purchase of Broadcast.com , an Internet radio company, for $5.7 billion, making Broadcast.com co-founder Mark Cuban a billionaire.

3. India at the Commonwealth Games - Wikipedia

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   India have been fairly regular at the Commonwealth Games, featuring in all but four editions (1930, 1950, 1962 and 1986) of the quadrennial showpiece. [3]Indian athletes debuted at the Commonwealth Games, then called the British Empire Games, back in 1934. [4]

4. Barnes & Noble - Wikipedia

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   Barnes & Noble continued to expand throughout the 1980s, and it purchased the primarily shopping mall-based B. Dalton chain from Dayton Hudson in 1986, for an estimated $275 million to $300 million. [29]

5. Discounts and allowances - Wikipedia

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   Discounts and allowances are reductions to a basic price of goods or services.. They can occur anywhere in the distribution channel, modifying either the manufacturer's list price (determined by the manufacturer and often printed on the package), the retail price (set by the retailer and often attached to the product with a sticker), or the list price (which is quoted to a potential buyer ...

6. History of Yahoo! - Wikipedia

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   When Jerry and David's Guide to the World Wide Web was renamed to Yahoo! in 1994, Yang and Filo said that "Yet Another Hierarchical Officious Oracle" was a suitable backronym for this name, but they insisted they had selected the name because they liked the word's general definition, as in Gulliver's Travels by Jonathan Swift: "rude, unsophisticated, uncouth."

7. List of Google products - Wikipedia

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   Google Code – Open source code hosting. Discontinued on January 25 and renamed to Google Developers. [129] Picasa – photo organization and editing application. Closed March 15 and replaced by Google Photos. [130] Google Compare – comparison-shopping site for auto insurance, credit cards and mortgages [131]

8. Amazon (company) - Wikipedia

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   Amazon acquired Junglee in 1998, and the website Junglee.com was launched in India in February 2012 [133] as a comparison-shopping website. It curated and enabled searching for a diverse variety of products such as clothing, electronics, toys, jewelry, and video games, among others, across thousands of online and offline sellers.

9. Rationing - Wikipedia

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   Rationing for civilians has most often been instituted during wartime. For example, each person may be given "ration coupons" which allow them to purchase a certain amount of a product each month. Rationing often includes food and other necessities for which there is a shortage, including materials needed for the war effort such as rubber tires ...