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  2. Google - Wikipedia

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    Google LLC The Google logo used since 2015 Google's headquarters, the Googleplex Formerly Google Inc. (1998–2017) Company type Subsidiary Traded as NASDAQ: GOOGL, GOOG Industry Internet Cloud computing Computer software Computer hardware Artificial intelligence Advertising Founded September 4, 1998 ; 25 years ago (1998-09-04) [a] in Menlo Park, California, United States Founders Larry Page ...

  3. Provisioning (technology) - Wikipedia

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    Provisioning (technology) In telecommunication, provisioning involves the process of preparing and equipping a network to allow it to provide new services to its users. In National Security/Emergency Preparedness telecommunications services, "provisioning" equates to "initiation" and includes altering the state of an existing priority service ...

  4. Credit - Wikipedia

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    The resources provided by the first party can be either property, fulfillment of promises, or performances. [2] In other words, credit is a method of making reciprocity formal, legally enforceable, and extensible to a large group of unrelated people. The resources provided may be financial (e.g. granting a loan ), or they may consist of goods ...

  5. Credit card fraud - Wikipedia

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    Credit card fraud is an inclusive term for fraud committed using a payment card, such as a credit card or debit card. [1] The purpose may be to obtain goods or services or to make payment to another account, which is controlled by a criminal. The Payment Card Industry Data Security Standard (PCI DSS) is the data security standard created to ...

  6. Marriott International - Wikipedia

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    Marriott International, Inc. is an American multinational company that operates, franchises, and licenses lodging brands that include hotel, residential, and timeshare properties. [1] Marriott International owns over 30 hotel and timeshare brands with 8,785 locations and 1,597,380 rooms across its network. [3]

  7. Credit CARD Act of 2009 - Wikipedia

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    The Consumer Financial Protection Bureau in its October 2013 report on the CARD Act found that between the first quarter of 2009 and December 2012, credit card interest rates increased on average from 16.2% to 18.5%, while the “total cost of credit,” that is, the total of all fees and interest paid by all consumers as a percentage of the ...

  8. Contactless smart card - Wikipedia

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    Contactless smart card. A contactless smart card is a contactless credential whose dimensions are credit card size. Its embedded integrated circuits can store (and sometimes process) data and communicate with a terminal via NFC. Commonplace uses include transit tickets, bank cards and passports. There are two broad categories of contactless ...

  9. Italian electronic identity card - Wikipedia

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    The Italian electronic identity card ( Italian: carta di identità elettronica, CIE ), or simply carta d'identità ( lit. 'identity card' ), [4] is an identification document issued to any Italian citizen and to legal aliens, that has been progressively replacing the paper-based identity card [ it] since version 3.0 was first released on 4 July ...