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2. Steam (service) - Wikipedia

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   Stardock, developer of competing platform Impulse, estimated that Steam had a 70% share in 2009. [405] In February 2011, Forbes reported that Steam sales constituted 50–70% of the US$4 billion market for downloaded PC games and that Steam offered game producers gross margins of 70% of the purchase price, compared with 30% at retail. [409]

3. Smartphone - Wikipedia

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   Japanese cell phones increasingly diverged from global standards and trends to offer other forms of advanced services and smartphone-like functionality that were specifically tailored to the Japanese market, such as mobile payments and shopping, near-field communication (NFC) allowing mobile wallet functionality to replace smart cards for ...

4. Crisis in Venezuela - Wikipedia

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   Ratings for Venezuela from 1998 to 2017 by the U.S. Government-funded NGO Freedom House [276] (1 = free, 7 = not free) A number of foreign firms have left the nation—often due to quarrels with the socialist government—including Smurfit Kappa , Clorox , Kimberly Clark and General Mills ; the departures aggravate unemployment and shortages ...

5. Biofilm - Wikipedia

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   A biofilm is a syntrophic community of microorganisms in which cells stick to each other and often also to a surface. [2] [3] These adherent cells become embedded within a slimy extracellular matrix that is composed of extracellular polymeric substances (EPSs).

6. Alaska - Wikipedia

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   A military airlift immediately began shipping relief supplies to Alaska, eventually delivering 2,570,000 pounds (1,170,000 kg) of food and other supplies. [36] Broadcast journalist, Genie Chance , assisted in recovery and relief efforts, staying on the KENI air waves over Anchorage for more than 24 continuous hours as the voice of calm from her ...

7. Private equity - Wikipedia

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   The workforce is reduced, some assets are sold off, etc. The objective is to increase the valuation of the company for an early sale. The stock market is experiencing a bull market, and XYZ Industrial is sold two years after the buy-out for $13bn, yielding a profit of $2bn. The original loan can now be paid off with interest of, say, $0.5bn.