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2. List of acquisitions by eBay - Wikipedia

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   As of September 2014, eBay has acquired over 40 companies, the most expensive of which was the purchase of Skype, a Voice over Internet Protocol company, for US$ 2.6 billion in cash plus up to an additional US$1.5 billion if certain performance goals were met. [ 2] The majority of companies acquired by eBay are based in the United States.

3. Alibaba Group - Wikipedia

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   Alibaba Group Holding Limited, branded as Alibaba, is a Chinese multinational technology company specializing in e-commerce, retail, Internet, and technology.Founded on 28 June 1999 [1] in Hangzhou, Zhejiang, the company provides consumer-to-consumer (C2C), business-to-consumer (B2C), and business-to-business (B2B) sales services via Chinese and global marketplaces, as well as local consumer ...

4. Bertrand's box paradox - Wikipedia

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   Bertrand's box paradox is a veridical paradox in elementary probability theory. It was first posed by Joseph Bertrand in his 1889 work Calcul des Probabilités . There are three boxes: a box containing two gold coins, a box containing two silver coins, a box containing one gold coin and one silver coin. Choose a box at random.

5. Are you dreading retirement? Here are 3 money tips for ... - AOL

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   Failure to take RMDs can result in a penalty of 25% of the amount you should've withdrawn, but this can be reduced to 10% if the mistake is corrected within two calendar years.

6. 25-pair color code - Wikipedia

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   The pattern then starts over with the first 25-pair group as white/blue, and continues indefinitely, in multiples of 600 pairs or parts thereof. For example, a 900-pair cable has the first 600 pairs in 24 groups of 25 pairs in a white binder, and the remaining 300 pairs in 12 groups of 25 pairs wrapped in a red binder. [5] [6]

7. Elo rating system - Wikipedia

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   The Elo[ a] rating system is a method for calculating the relative skill levels of players in zero-sum games such as chess or esports. It is named after its creator Arpad Elo, a Hungarian-American physics professor. The Elo system was invented as an improved chess-rating system over the previously used Harkness system, [ 1] but is also used as ...

8. Glossary of card game terms - Wikipedia

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   Hand of cards during a game. The following is a glossary of terms used in card games.Besides the terms listed here, there are thousands of common and uncommon slang terms. Terms in this glossary should not be game-specific (e.g. specific to bridge, hearts, poker or rummy), but apply to a wide range of card games played with non-proprietary pac

9. Box plot - Wikipedia

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   Box plot of data from the Michelson experiment. In descriptive statistics, a box plot or boxplot is a method for demonstrating graphically the locality, spread and skewness groups of numerical data through their quartiles. [ 1] In addition to the box on a box plot, there can be lines (which are called whiskers) extending from the box indicating ...