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The term "Cyber Monday" was coined by Ellen Davis, [6] [7] and was first used within the ecommerce community during the 2005 holiday season. [8] According to Scott Silverman, the head of Shop.org, the term was coined based on 2004 research showing "one of the biggest online shopping days of the year" was the Monday after Thanksgiving (12th-biggest day historically). [9]
Thanksgiving, Small Business Saturday, Cyber Monday, Giving Tuesday, Christmas, Buy Nothing Day. Black Friday is the Friday after Thanksgiving in the United States. It traditionally marks the start of the Christmas shopping season in the United States. Many stores offer highly promoted sales at discounted prices and often open early, sometimes ...
The Digital Cleanup Day is an annual event to raise global awareness about the environmental impact of the digital industry. This initiative encourages people to take concrete action by cleaning up their digital data and/or giving a second life to their unused computer equipment. [ 1]
Buy Nothing Day is a day of protest against consumerism. In North America, the United Kingdom, Finland and Sweden, Buy Nothing Day is held the day after U.S. Thanksgiving, concurrent with Black Friday; elsewhere, it is held the following day, which is the last Saturday in November. [ 1][ 2] Created by artist Ted Dave and promoted by magazine ...
Director General. Vincent Strubel. Budget (2018) €100 million. Staff (2018) 600. Website. cyber.gouv.fr. The Agence nationale de la sécurité des systèmes d'information ( ANSSI; English: French National Agency for the Security of Information Systems) is a French service created on 7 July 2009 with responsibility for computer security.
Marie Trintignant (French pronunciation: [maʁi tʁɛ̃tiɲɑ̃] ⓘ; 21 January 1962 – 1 August 2003) was a French film and stage actress.She appeared in over 30 movies during her 36-year career. [1]
Reporters Without Borders. Reporters Without Borders ( RWB; French: Reporters sans frontières; RSF) is an international non-profit and non-governmental organization headquartered in Paris, which focuses on safeguarding the right to freedom of information. It describes its advocacy as founded on the belief that everyone requires access to the ...
January—Brazil—A cyber attack disrupted power service in three cities north of Rio de Janeiro, affecting tens of thousands of people. [84] May 25–August 3—Russia—The 2005 Moscow power blackouts ten-week-long power outage affected more than two million people in central Russia. The blackout was due to a cascading failure of the power ...