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  2. PageNet - Wikipedia

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    PageNet. PageNet , also known as Paging Network, Inc., was founded in 1981 by entrepreneur George Perrin and ceased in 1999. The company grew to become the largest wireless messaging company in the world, with more than 10 million pagers in service, and $1 billion in revenues, before the paging industry's rapid decline in the late 1990s.

  3. List of countries by stock market capitalization - Wikipedia

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    Year World market cap (in mil. US$) World market cap (% of GDP) Number of listed companies 1975 1,149,245 27.2 14,577 1980 2,525,736 29.6 17,273 1985 4,684,978

  4. Pager - Wikipedia

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    Pager. A pager, also known as a beeper or bleeper, [1] is a wireless telecommunications device that receives and displays alphanumeric or voice messages. One-way pagers can only receive messages, while response pagers and two-way pagers can also acknowledge, reply to, and originate messages using an internal transmitter. [2]

  5. Big Tech is embracing a hallmark of pre-internet stocks - AOL

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    Earnings are rising and with it are massive stock buybacks. The recent wave of repurchases, including Apple's record-breaking $110 billion plan , is the largest sum of buybacks since 2018 .

  6. Initial public offering of Facebook - Wikipedia

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    The next day of trading after the IPO (May 21), the stock closed below its offering price, at $34.03. The stock saw another large loss the next day, closing at $31.00. A 'circuit breaker' was used in an attempt to slow down the decline in the stock price. The stock increased modestly in coming days, and Facebook closed its first full week of ...

  7. Nvidia shatters stock market record by adding over $230 ... - AOL

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    The $1.9 trillion AI giant surged to a record-high stock price on Thursday, putting it on course to add over $230 billion to its market capitalization and shatter a one-day record only weeks old ...

  8. Informal value transfer system - Wikipedia

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    An informal value transfer system is an alternative and unofficial remittance and banking system, that pre-dates current day modern banking systems. The systems were established as a means of settling accounts within villages and between villages. It existed as far back as over 4000 years ago and even more.

  9. CreditAccess Grameen - Wikipedia

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    CreditAccess Grameen Limited is a listed company in the National Stock Exchange and Bombay Stock Exchange. History. CreditAccess Grameen (CA Grameen) was established in 1999 by Vinatha M. Reddy, who was inspired by the book “Give Us Credit” by Alex Counts, President & CEO of Grameen Foundation USA. Reddy, who was then running an NGO — "T ...