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• EdTech, short for Education Technology, refers to the introduction of new technologies in the classroom.

• BAT stock is an acronym used to refer to China’s top three technology companies: Baidu Inc., Alibaba Holding Group Ltd. and Tencent Holdings Ltd.

• Bioremediation is a branch of biotechnology that uses living organisms such as microbes and bacteria to decontaminate affected areas.

• FAANG is an acronym for the five most popular and best-performing US technology stocks.

• The term “FANG” refers to the shares of four popular American technology companies: Meta, Amazon, Netflix and Alphabet.

• GAFAM is an abbreviation for shares of American technology companies: Google (Alphabet); Apple; Facebook (meta); Amazon; and Microsoft.

• Medium-sized businesses make up about one-third of the US economy.

• The technology sector consists of businesses that sell goods and services in electronics, software, computers, artificial intelligence and other information technology (IT) related industries.

• The Technology, Media and Telecommunications (TMT) sector is an industry group that includes companies focused on new technologies.

• Wearable technology is emerging as an important category of the Internet of Things with life-changing applications in medicine and other fields.

• The Acceptable Quality Level (AQL) is the worst quality level allowed for a product.

• The adjusted closing price changes the closing price of a share to reflect the value of that share after accounting for any corporate action.

• An affiliate is a company in which a minority stake is owned by a larger company.

• The agency theory attempts to explain and resolve disputes about the respective priorities between principals and their agents.

Allocation is the systematic distribution of business resources between different entities and over time.#

• Alphabet shares are shares of a publicly traded company that have different classes of shares, commonly referred to as “.A shares” or “.B shares”.

• Annual General Meeting (AGM) – the annual meeting of the interested shareholders of the company.

• Anti-dilution clauses are clauses built into convertible preferred shares to help protect investors from their investments that could lose value.

• Evaluation costs are the fees a company pays for discovering defects in its products before they are delivered to customers; they are a form of quality control.

• The articles of association can be seen as a user manual for the company, defining its purpose and outlining the methodology for carrying out the necessary day-to-day tasks.

• Assembly to order (ATO) is a business strategy in which products are quickly produced from components after order confirmation.

A cession is a transfer of rights or property from one person to another.#

• Assortment strategy is a strategic sales tool for the retail industry, optimizing the range of products offered for sale.

• Par value is the price at which the bond was issued, also known as its face value.

• Attrition occurs when the workforce in a company is reduced as people leave and are not replaced.