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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]
A beta version of the slimmed-down interface was released first to invited testers [245] before a broader rollout across users in the United States, Canada, and India. [244] It was announced on April 20, 2010, that support for the "lite" service had ended and that users would be redirected back to the normal, full content, Facebook website.
Crowdfunding is the practice of funding a project or venture by raising money from a large number of people, typically via the internet. [1] [2] Crowdfunding is a form of crowdsourcing and alternative finance.
The Hewlett-Packard Company, commonly shortened to Hewlett-Packard (/ ˈ h juː l ɪ t ˈ p æ k ər d / HYEW-lit PAK-ərd) or HP, was an American multinational information technology company headquartered in Palo Alto, California.
With an estimated 1,428,627,663 residents in 2023, India is the world's most populous country. [ 14 ] 1,210,193,422 residents were reported in the 2011 provisional census report. [ 360 ] Its population grew by 17.64% from 2001 to 2011, [ 361 ] compared to 21.54% growth in the previous decade (1991–2001). [ 361 ]
Morgan. Signature. John Pierpont Morgan (April 17, 1837 – March 31, 1913) [1] was an American financier and investment banker who dominated corporate finance on Wall Street throughout the Gilded Age and Progressive Era. As the head of the banking firm that ultimately became known as J.P. Morgan and Co., he was a driving force behind the wave ...
t. e. In the Indian subcontinent, hijra[n 1] are transgender, intersex, or eunuch people who live in communities that follow a kinship system known as guru-chela system. [5][6][7][8] They are also known as aravani, aruvani, and jogappa. [9] The term used in Pakistan is khawaja sira, the equivalent of transgender in the Urdu language.
Johannes Erwin Eugen Rommel (pronounced [ˈɛʁviːn ˈʁɔməl] ⓘ; 15 November 1891 – 14 October 1944) was a German Generalfeldmarschall (field marshal) during World War II. Popularly known as the Desert Fox (German: Wüstenfuchs, pronounced [ˈvyːstn̩ˌfʊks] ⓘ), he served in the Wehrmacht (armed forces) of Nazi Germany, as well as in ...