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The Philippine Charity Sweepstakes Office ( PCSO, Filipino: Tanggapan sa Charity Sweepstakes ng Pilipinas [2]) is a government-owned and controlled corporation of the Philippines under direct supervision of the Office of the President of the Philippines. It is mandated to do fund raising and provide funds for health programs, medical assistance ...
Nintendo Wi-Fi Connection [a] (sometimes shortened to Nintendo WFC) is a defunct online multiplayer gaming service run by Nintendo that formerly provided free online play in compatible Nintendo DS and Wii games. The service included the company's Wii Shop Channel and DSi Shop game download services. It also ran features for the Wii and Nintendo ...
Closure (computer programming) In programming languages, a closure, also lexical closure or function closure, is a technique for implementing lexically scoped name binding in a language with first-class functions. Operationally, a closure is a record storing a function [a] together with an environment. [1]
Yahoo! Groups was a free-to-use system of electronic mailing lists offered by Yahoo! . Prior to February 2020, Yahoo! Groups was one of the world's largest collections of online discussion boards. It allowed members to subscribe to various groups, read subscribed discussions online, view and share photos, files and bookmarks within a group ...
The 2022 Asian Games closing ceremonies was produced by Sha Xiaolan (沙曉蘭), [2] who was one of assistant directors to Zhang Yimou during the 2022 Winter Olympics opening ceremony and closing ceremony production. The theme of the closing ceremony was "Hangzhou to be remembered", which is intended to convey the joy and farewell feeling of ...
In 1998, Yahoo replaced AltaVista as the crawler-based search engine underlying the Directory with Inktomi. Yahoo's two biggest acquisitions were made in 1999: Geocities for $3.6 billion and Broadcast.com for $5.7 billion. Its stock price skyrocketed during the dot-com bubble, closing at an all-time high of $118.75/share on January 3, 2000 ...
The rarest feat: There have been 24 perfect games, 18 four-HR games, 15 unassisted triple plays and just five 20-strikeout games*, with Clemens (1986 and 1996) joining Kerry Wood (1998), Randy ...
As of April 2008, the company's largest acquisition is the purchase of Broadcast.com, an Internet radio company, for $5.7 billion, making Broadcast.com co-founder Mark Cuban a billionaire. Most of the companies acquired by Yahoo are based in the United States; 78 of the companies are from the United States, and 15 are based in a foreign country.