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  2. What’s behind the chaos in Ecuador?

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    Ecuador’s worsening security situation deteriorated further in spectacular fashion this week, with criminal groups seizing symbolic locations including a TV station and a university in a show of ...

  3. LICRA v. Yahoo! - Wikipedia

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    France ( LICRA c. Yahoo!) is a French court case decided by the Tribunal de grande instance of Paris in 2000. The case concerned the sale of memorabilia from the Nazi period by Internet auction and the application of national laws to the Internet. Some observers have claimed that the judgement creates a universal competence for French courts to ...

  4. Billion - Wikipedia

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    Billion is a word for a large number, and it has two distinct definitions: 1,000,000,000, i.e. one thousand million, or 10 9 (ten to the ninth power ), as defined on the short scale. This is now the most common sense of the word in all varieties of English; it has long been established in American English and has since become common in Britain ...

  5. List of English words of Yiddish origin - Wikipedia

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    This is a list of words that have entered the English language from the Yiddish language, many of them by way of American English.There are differing approaches to the romanization of Yiddish orthography (which uses the Hebrew alphabet); thus, the spelling of some of the following words may be variable (for example, shlep is a variant of schlep, and shnozz, schnoz).

  6. Timeline of Yahoo! - Wikipedia

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    July 6, 2012: Yahoo! and Facebook settle their patent dispute. [102] July 16, 2012: Marissa Mayer is appointed CEO. [103] July 30, 2012: Levinsohn, former interim CEO, leaves Yahoo! [104] September 18, 2012: Yahoo! announced the completion of the first stage of the Alibaba share repurchase.

  7. Amazon (company) - Wikipedia

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    Amazon was founded on July 5, 1994, by Jeff Bezos in Bellevue, Washington. [6] The company originally started as an online marketplace for books but gradually expanded its offerings to include a wide range of product categories. This diversification led to it being referred to as "The Everything Store". [7]

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  9. Silicon Valley - Wikipedia

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    Silicon Valley is a region in Northern California that is a global center for high technology and innovation. Located in the southern part of the San Francisco Bay Area, it corresponds roughly to the geographical area of the Santa Clara Valley. [1] [2] [3] The term "Silicon Valley" refers to the area in which high-tech business has proliferated ...