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  2. Service provider - Wikipedia

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    Service provider. A service provider (SP) is an organization that provides services, such as consulting, legal, real estate, communications, storage, and processing services, to other organizations. Although a service provider can be a sub-unit of the organization that it serves, it is usually a third-party or outsourced supplier.

  3. Service economy - Wikipedia

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    Service economy can refer to one or both of two recent economic developments: The increased importance of the service sector in industrialized economies. The current list of Fortune 500 companies contains more service companies and fewer manufacturers than in previous decades. The relative importance of service in a product offering.

  4. Grup Servicii Petroliere - Wikipedia

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    Grup Servicii Petroliere (GSP Offshore) performs offshore integrated services for the oil and gas industry. GSP is a member of Upetrom Group, a private company. GSP operates seven offshore drilling rigs: GSP Saturn, GSP Jupiter, GSP Orizont, GSP Atlas, GSP Prometeu, GSP Fortuna and GSP Britannia. GSP also operates several multifunctional ...

  5. Goods and services - Wikipedia

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    Goods are items that are usually (but not always) tangible, such as pens or apples. Services are activities provided by other people, such as teachers or barbers. Taken together, it is the production, distribution, and consumption of goods and services which underpins all economic activity and trade. According to economic theory, consumption of ...

  6. Social services - Wikipedia

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    Social services are a range of public services intended to provide support and assistance towards particular groups, which commonly include the disadvantaged. [1] They may be provided by individuals, private and independent organizations, or administered by a government agency. [1] Social services are connected with the concept of welfare and ...

  7. Dan and Farris Wilks - Wikipedia

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    Daniel Howard "Dan" Wilks (born 1955 or 1956) [1] and Farris Cullen Wilks (born 1951 or 1952), [2] also collectively known as the Wilks Brothers, are American petroleum industry businessmen. Sons of a bricklayer, the brothers established Wilks Masonry in 1995. They went on to found an early hydraulic fracking company, Frac Tech, in 2002, and ...

  8. Short Message service center - Wikipedia

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    A Short Message Service Center (SMSC) is a network element in the mobile telephone network. Its purpose is to store, forward, convert and deliver Short Message Service (SMS) messages. The full designation of an SMSC according to 3GPP is Short Message Service - Service Center (SMS-SC).

  9. Portiuncula - Wikipedia

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    Portiuncula, also spelled Porziuncola or Porzioncula, is a small Catholic church located within the Papal Basilica of Saint Mary of the Angels in Assisi in the frazione of Santa Maria degli Angeli, situated about 4 kilometres (2.5 mi) from Assisi, Umbria (central Italy). It is the place from where the Franciscan movement started.