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business entity

Business administration Management of a business Accounting Business entities Corporate governance Corporate law Corporate title Economics Finance Types of management Organization Trade A business entity is an entity that is formed and administered as per corporate law in order to engage in business activities, charitable work, or other activities allowable. Most often, business entities are formed to sell a product or a service. There are many types of business entities defined in the legal systems of various countries. These include corporations, cooperatives, partnerships, sole traders, limited liability companies and other specifically permitted and labelled types of entities. The specific rules vary by country and by state or province. Some of these types are listed below, by country. For guidance, approximate equivalents in the company law of English-speaking countries are given in most cases, for example:...

subsidiary

A subsidiary, subsidiary company or daughter company is a company that is owned or controlled by another company, which is called the parent company, parent, or holding company. The subsidiary can be a company, corporation, or limited liability company. In some cases it is a government or state-owned enterprise. In some cases, particularly in the music and book publishing industries, subsidiaries are referred to as imprints. In the United States railroad industry, an operating subsidiary is a company that is a subsidiary but operates with its own identity, locomotives and rolling stock. In contrast, a non-operating subsidiary would exist on paper only (i.e., stocks, bonds, articles of incorporation) and would use the identity of the parent company. Subsidiaries are a common feature of business life, and most multinational corporations organize their operations in this way. Examples include holding companies such as Berkshire Hathaway, Jefferies Financial Group, WarnerMedia, or Citigrou...

Alibaba Cloud

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Alibaba Cloud Industry Cloud computing, Web services Founded 2009 Key people Jack Ma (Executive Chairman) Simon Hu (President) Parent Alibaba Group Website www .alibabacloud .com Alibaba Cloud (Chinese: 阿里云 ; pinyin: Ālǐyún ; literally: 'Ali Cloud'), also known as Aliyun , is a Chinese cloud computing company, a subsidiary of Alibaba Group. Alibaba Cloud provides cloud computing services to online businesses and Alibaba's own e-commerce ecosystem. Alibaba Cloud's international operations are registered and headquartered in Singapore. Alibaba Cloud offers cloud services. Services are available on a pay-as-you-go basis and include Elastic Compute, Data Storage, Relational Databases, Big-Data Processing, Anti-DDoS protection and Content Delivery Networks (CDN). Outside of the status as the largest cloud computing company in China, Alibaba Cloud operates in 19 data center regions and 56 availability zones around the globe. As of June 2017, Alibaba Cloud is placed in t...

Mobile media

Mobile media Mobility and portability of media, or as Paul Levinson calls it in his book Cellphone , “the media-in-motion business” has been a process in the works ever since the “first time someone thought to write on a tablet that could be lifted and hauled – rather than on a cave wall, a cliff face, a monument that usually was stuck in place, more or less forever”. For a time, mobile media devices such as mobile phones and PDA’s were the primary source of portable media from which we could obtain information and communicate with one another. More recently, the smartphone (which has combined many features of the cell phone with the PDA) has rendered the PDA obsolete. The growth of new mobile media as a true force in society was marked by smartphone sales outpacing personal computer sales in 2011. While mobile phone independent technologies and functions may be new and innovative (in relation to changes and improvements in media capabilities in respect to their ...

mobile commerce

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mobile commerce series on E-commerce Online goods and services Digital distribution E-books Software Streaming media Retail services Banking DVD-by-mail Flower delivery Food ordering Grocery Pharmacy Travel Marketplace services Advertising Auctions Comparison shopping Social commerce Trading communities Wallet Mobile commerce Payment Ticketing Customer service Call centre Help desk Live support software E-procurement Purchase-to-pay The term mobile commerce was originally coined in 1997 by Kevin Duffey at the launch of the Global Mobile Commerce Forum, to mean "the delivery of electronic commerce capabilities directly into the consumer’s hand, anywhere, via wireless technology." Many choose to think of Mobile Commerce as meaning "a retail outlet in your customer’s pocket." Mobile commerce is worth US$800 billion, with Asia representing almost half of the market. 

Entertainment

Entertainment is a form of activity that holds the attention and interest of an audience, or gives pleasure and delight. It can be an idea or a task, but is more likely to be one of the activities or events that have developed over thousands of years specifically for the purpose of keeping an audience's attention.[1] Although people's attention is held by different things, because individuals have different preferences in entertainment, most forms are recognisable and familiar. Storytelling, music, drama, dance, and different kinds of performance exist in all cultures, were supported in royal courts, developed into sophisticated forms and over time became available to all citizens. The process has been accelerated in modern times by an entertainment industry that records and sells entertainment products. Entertainment evolves and can be adapted to suit any scale, ranging from an individual who  chooses a private entertainment from a now enormous array of pre-recorded products; ...

Singles' Day

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Singles' Day An illustration for the Chinese e-commerce holiday Singles' Day Observed by Chinese Type Commercial Significance Day for singles to celebrate and socialize Celebrations Shopping, festivals, clubs/bar Date November 11th Next time 11 November 2019 Frequency Annual Singles day or Guanggun Jie (Chinese: 光棍节 ; pinyin: Guānggùn Jié ; Wade–Giles: Kuang-kun chieh ; literally: 'Single Sticks' Holiday') is a shopping holiday popular among young Chinese people that celebrate their pride in being single. The date, November 11th (11/11), was chosen because the number "1" resembles an individual who is alone. The holiday has also become a popular date to celebrate relationships, with over 4,000 couples being married in Beijing on this date in 2011, compared to an average of 700 a day. The holiday has become the largest offline and online shopping day in the world, with Alibaba shoppers exceeding 168.2 billion yuan (US$25.4 billion) in spending during ...

Walmart

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Walmart Inc. Walmart's current logo since 2008 Exterior of a Walmart store taken in 2013 Formerly Walton's (1950-69) Wal-Mart, Inc. (1969–70) Wal-Mart Stores, Inc. (1970–2018) Type Public Traded as NYSE: WMT DJIA component S&P 100 component S&P 500 component ISIN US9311421039 Industry Retail Founded June 13, 1945 ; 74 years ago (in Rogers, Arkansas) Founder Sam Walton Headquarters Bentonville, Arkansas , U.S. Number of locations 11,368 stores worldwide (April 30, 2019) Area served Worldwide Key people Greg Penner (Chairman) Doug McMillon (President and CEO) Products Electronics Movies and music Home and furniture Home improvement Clothing Footwear Jewelry Toys Health and beauty Pet supplies Sporting goods and fitness Auto Photo finishing Craft supplies Party supplies Grocery Services Walmart-2-Walmart Walmart MoneyCard Pickup Today Walmart.com Walmart Pay Revenue US$514.4 billion (2019) Operating income US$21.96 billion (2019) Net income US$6.67 billion (2...

Tmall

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Tmall Screenshot Type of site E-Commerce retail Available in Chinese Owner Alibaba Group Created by Jack Ma Website tmall.com Alexa rank 7 (July 2019) Commercial Yes Launched April 2008 ; 11 years ago Current status Active Tmall.com (Chinese: 天猫 ; pinyin: Tiānmāo ), formerly Taobao Mall , is a Chinese-language website for business-to-consumer (B2C) online retail, spun off from Taobao, operated in China by Alibaba Group. It is a platform for local Chinese and international businesses to sell brand name goods to consumers in mainland China, Hong Kong, Macau and Taiwan. Being the world's second biggest e-commerce website after Taobao, it has over 500 million monthly active users, as of February 2018. It is the world's seventh most visited website according to Alexa

THE YELLOW WALLPAPER By Charlotte Perkins Gilman

THE YELLOW WALLPAPER By Charlotte Perkins Gilman It is very seldom that mere ordinary people like John and me secure ancestral halls for the summer . A colonial mansion, a hereditary estate, I would say a haunted house, and reach the height of romantic felicity—but that would be asking too much of fate ! Still I will proudly declare that there is something queer about it . Else, why should it be let so cheaply? And why have stood so long untenanted ? John laughs at me, of course, but one expects that in marriage . John is practical in the extreme. He has no patience with faith, an intense horror of superstition, and he scoffs openly at any talk of things not to be felt and seen and put down in figures . John is a physician, and perhaps—(I would not say it to a living soul, of course, but this is dead paper and a great relief to my mind)—perhaps that is one reason I do not get well faster . You see, he does not believe I am sick ! And what can on...