ENTREPRENEURSHIP AND THE GLOBAL ECONOMY
GLOBALIZATION AND ENTREPRENEURSHIP
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a small company
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a company that runs most or all of its business from the internet
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a company that adopts business practices aimed at protecting or improving the environment
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a foreign company
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Detailed explanation-1: -A dotcom, or dot-com, is a company that conducts business primarily through a website. A dotcom company embraces the Internet as the key component in its business. Dotcoms get their name from the URL or domain name that customers enter to visit a website. The .com at the end of the URL stands for commercial.
Detailed explanation-2: -Amazon.com, Yahoo!, Google and eBay are examples of dot-com companies. Telecom companies that offer voice or video services over the Internet also fit into the dot-com company umbrella.
Detailed explanation-3: -The domain name .com is a top-level domain (TLD) in the Domain Name System (DNS) of the Internet. Added at the beginning of 1985, its name is derived from the word commercial, indicating its original intended purpose for domains registered by commercial organizations. Later, the domain opened for general purposes.
Detailed explanation-4: -Popular dotcom companies include Amazon.com, eBay.com, Priceline.com, coupons.com, and shuttelfly.com. The companies survived the burst of the dot-com bubble.
Detailed explanation-5: -A dot-com company, or simply a dot-com (alternatively rendered dot.com, dot com, dotcom or .com), is a company that does most of its business on the Internet, usually through a website on the World Wide Web that uses the popular top-level domain “.com".