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Groupon, Inc. is an American global e-commerce marketplace connecting subscribers with local merchants by offering activities, travel, goods and services in 13 [ 2] countries. Based in Chicago, Groupon was launched there in November 2008, launching soon after in Boston, New York City and Toronto. By October 2010, Groupon was available in 150 ...
AliExpress ( Chinese: 全球速卖通) is an online retail service based in China and owned by the Alibaba Group. [ 1] Launched in 2010, [ 2][ 3] it is made up of small businesses in China and other locations, such as Singapore, that offer products to international online buyers. It is the most visited e-commerce website in Russia [ 4] and was ...
The Amazon website launched for public sales on July 16, 1995, and initially sourced its books directly from wholesalers and publishers. [23] [25] Amazon went public in May 1997. It began selling music and videos in 1998, and began international operations by acquiring online sellers of books in the United Kingdom and Germany.
A developed country, or advanced country, [ 3][ 4] is a sovereign state that has a high quality of life, developed economy, and advanced technological infrastructure relative to other less industrialized nations. Most commonly, the criteria for evaluating the degree of economic development are the gross domestic product (GDP), gross national ...
Many published books have an ISBN and it is a useful measure for how productive a country's publishing industry is. [2] However, this data is not collected for all countries. It may not represent the total number of books a country has published, as not every registered ISBN is then used and as books may have multiple ISBNs. [2]
The 205 listed states can be divided into three categories based on membership within the United Nations System: 193 UN member states, [ 1 ] two UN General Assembly non-member observer states, and ten other states.
For a cinematographic work, 50 years from the date when the work was made lawfully accessible to the public with the author's consent. [70]: Art. 15 Art. 15 For a photographic work or work of applied art, 25 years from the production of the work [ 70 ] : Art. 16
The Human Development Report includes data for all 193 member states of the United Nations, [ 16] as well as Hong Kong SAR and the State of Palestine. However, the Human Development Index is not calculated for two UN member states: DPR Korea (North Korea) and Monaco, only some components of the index are calculated for these two countries.