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Valuation

An estimate of what a business is worth, usually derived from earnings, revenue or comparable companies. It is…

Bill

A proposed law, still going through the legislature. It is not law until it has passed every required…

Machine learning

Building software that improves at a task by finding patterns in data rather than by being given explicit…

Recession

A significant, broad decline in economic activity lasting more than a few months. The rough-and-ready definition is two…

API

An application programming interface: a defined way for one piece of software to ask another for data or…

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