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GameStop Corp. (known simply as GameStop) is an American video game, consumer electronics, and wireless services retailer. [1]

110 relations: American City Business Journals, Apple community, Apple Inc., Apple Store, AT&T, Atari 2600, Australia, Austria, Barnes & Noble, Blockbuster LLC, Browser game, Call of Duty: Black Ops, Canada, Chapter 11, Title 11, United States Code, Charles Babbage, Chief operating officer, Cloud gaming, Cricket Wireless, Criticism of Apple Inc., Dallas, Denmark, Denver, Deus Ex: Human Revolution, Digital distribution, EB Games, EB Games Australia, Eden Prairie, Minnesota, Edina, Minnesota, Entertainment Software Rating Board, Fingerprint, Finland, Fort Worth Star-Telegram, Fort Worth, Texas, Fortune (magazine), France, Free Record Shop, Frozenbyte, Full-time, Gamasutra, Game Informer, GameCrazy, GameStop, Gary Kusin, Geeknet, Germany, Grapevine Mills, Grapevine, Texas, Harvard Business School, Hastings Entertainment, Holding company, ..., Impulse (software), Initial public offering, Insomniac Games, Intellectual property, Ireland, Italy, Jolt Online Gaming, Kongregate, Leonard Riggio, Metroid: Other M, Micromania (video game retailer), MovieStop, Multiplayer video game, Netherlands, New York City, New York Stock Exchange, New Zealand, Nintendo, Norway, OnLive, Part-time contract, Play N Trade, PlayStation Network, Pop-up retail, Public company, Ready at Dawn, Retail, Reuters, Ross Perot, S&P 600, Salt Lake City, San Francisco, Song of the Deep, Southeastern United States, Square Enix, Steam (software), Stock swap, Strip mall, Sweden, Switzerland, Sycamore Partners, Tequila Works, Texas, The Dallas Morning News, The Home Depot, The Oregonian, ThinkGeek, Thomas G. Plaskett, Ticker symbol, U.S. Securities and Exchange Commission, United States, Utah, Video game, Video game accessory, Video game console, Video game journalism, WBIW, Xbox Game Pass, Xbox Live, ZiNG Pop Culture Australia. Expand index (60 more) »

American City Business Journals

"." Houston Business Journal.

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Apple community

The Apple community are people interested in Apple Inc. and its products, who report information in various media.

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Apple Inc.

Apple Inc. is an American multinational technology company headquartered in Cupertino, California, that designs, develops, and sells consumer electronics, computer software, and online services.

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Apple Store

Apple Store is a chain of retail stores owned and operated by Apple Inc. The stores sell Mac personal computers, iPhone smartphones, iPad tablet computers, iPod portable media players, Apple Watch smartwatches, Apple TV digital media players, software, and select third-party accessories.

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AT&T

AT&T Inc. is an American multinational conglomerate holding company headquartered at Whitacre Tower in Downtown Dallas, Texas.

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Atari 2600

The Atari 2600 (or Atari Video Computer System before November 1982) is a home video game console from Atari, Inc. Released on September 11, 1977, it is credited with popularizing the use of microprocessor-based hardware and games contained on ROM cartridges, a format first used with the Fairchild Channel F in 1976.

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Australia

Australia, officially the Commonwealth of Australia, is a sovereign country comprising the mainland of the Australian continent, the island of Tasmania and numerous smaller islands.

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Austria

Austria (Österreich), officially the Republic of Austria (Republik Österreich), is a federal republic and a landlocked country of over 8.8 million people in Central Europe.

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Barnes & Noble

Barnes & Noble, Inc., a Fortune 500 company, is the bookseller with the largest number of retail outlets in the United States, and a retailer of content, digital media, and educational products.

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Blockbuster LLC

Blockbuster LLC, formerly Blockbuster Entertainment, Inc., and also known as Blockbuster Video or simply Blockbuster, was an American-based provider of home movie and video game rental services through video rental shops, DVD-by-mail, streaming, video on demand, and cinema theater.

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Browser game

A browser game is a computer game that is played over the Internet using a web browser.

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Call of Duty: Black Ops

Call of Duty: Black Ops is a first-person shooter video game, developed by Treyarch and published by Activision.

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Canada

Canada is a country located in the northern part of North America.

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Chapter 11, Title 11, United States Code

Chapter 11 is a chapter of Title 11, the United States Bankruptcy Code, which permits reorganization under the bankruptcy laws of the United States.

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Charles Babbage

Charles Babbage (26 December 1791 – 18 October 1871) was an English polymath.

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Chief operating officer

The chief operating officer (COO), also called the chief operations officer, is one of the highest-ranking executive positions in an organization, comprising part of the "C-Suite".

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Cloud gaming

Cloud gaming, sometimes called gaming on demand, is a type of online gaming.

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Cricket Wireless

Cricket Wireless LLC is a prepaid wireless service provider in the United States, a wholly owned subsidiary of AT&T Inc. It offers mobile voice, text, and data using parent AT&T's nationwide network.

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Criticism of Apple Inc.

Apple Inc. is a multinational American technology company which sells consumer electronics that have been claimed by critics to combine stolen and/or purchased designs that it claims are its own original creations.

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Dallas

Dallas is a city in the U.S. state of Texas.

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Denmark

Denmark (Danmark), officially the Kingdom of Denmark,Kongeriget Danmark,.

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Denver

Denver, officially the City and County of Denver, is the capital and most populous municipality of the U.S. state of Colorado.

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Deus Ex: Human Revolution

Deus Ex: Human Revolution (stylized as DEUS EX: HUMΔN REVOLUTION) is an action role-playing video game developed by Eidos Montréal and published worldwide by Square Enix in August 2011 for Microsoft Windows, PlayStation 3 and Xbox 360: a version for OS X released the following year.

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Digital distribution

Digital distribution (also referred to as content delivery, online distribution, or electronic software distribution (ESD), among others) is the delivery or distribution of media content such as audio, video, software and video games.

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EB Games

EB Games (formerly known as Electronics Boutique and EB World) is an American computer and video games retailer.

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EB Games Australia

EB Games Australia (originally Electronics Boutique) is an Australian video game and entertainment software retailer.

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Eden Prairie, Minnesota

Eden Prairie is an edge city southwest of downtown Minneapolis in Hennepin County, and the 12th-largest city in the State of Minnesota.

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Edina, Minnesota

Edina, is a city in Hennepin County, Minnesota, United States.

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Entertainment Software Rating Board

The Entertainment Software Rating Board (ESRB) is an American self-regulatory organization that assigns age and content ratings to consumer video games.

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Fingerprint

A fingerprint in its narrow sense is an impression left by the friction ridges of a human finger.

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Finland

Finland (Suomi; Finland), officially the Republic of Finland is a country in Northern Europe bordering the Baltic Sea, Gulf of Bothnia, and Gulf of Finland, between Norway to the north, Sweden to the northwest, and Russia to the east.

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Fort Worth Star-Telegram

The Fort Worth Star-Telegram is a U.S. daily newspaper serving Fort Worth and the western half of the North Texas area known as the Metroplex.

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Fort Worth, Texas

Fort Worth is the 15th-largest city in the United States and the fifth-largest city in the state of Texas.

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Fortune (magazine)

Fortune is an American multinational business magazine headquartered in New York City, United States.

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France

France, officially the French Republic (République française), is a sovereign state whose territory consists of metropolitan France in Western Europe, as well as several overseas regions and territories.

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Free Record Shop

Free Record Shop was a chain of home entertainment stores selling products such as CDs, DVDs and video games, founded by Hans Breukhoven.

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Frozenbyte

Frozenbyte Inc.

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Full-time

Full-time employment is employment in which a person works a minimum number of hours defined as such by his/her employer.

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Gamasutra

Gamasutra is a website founded in 1997 that focuses on all aspects of video game development.

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Game Informer

Game Informer (GI) is an American monthly video game magazine featuring articles, news, strategy, and reviews of video games and associated consoles.

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GameCrazy

GameCrazy was a video game retailer based in Wilsonville, Oregon.

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GameStop

GameStop Corp. (known simply as GameStop) is an American video game, consumer electronics, and wireless services retailer.

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Gary Kusin

Gary M. Kusin (born 1951) is an American entrepreneur.

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Geeknet

Geeknet, Inc. is a Fairfax County, Virginia–based company that owns the online retailer ThinkGeek and is a subsidiary of GameStop.

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Germany

Germany (Deutschland), officially the Federal Republic of Germany (Bundesrepublik Deutschland), is a sovereign state in central-western Europe.

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Grapevine Mills

Grapevine Mills is a diverse-scale (outlet) shopping mall in Grapevine, Texas in the Dallas-Fort Worth Metroplex.

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Grapevine, Texas

Grapevine is a city in the U.S. state of Texas, predominantly in Tarrant County and has areas that extend into Dallas and Denton counties.

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Harvard Business School

Harvard Business School (HBS) is the graduate business school of Harvard University in Boston, Massachusetts.

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Hastings Entertainment

Hastings Entertainment was a U.S. retail chain that sold books, movies, music, and video games and functioned as a video rental shop.

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Holding company

A holding company is a company that owns other companies' outstanding stock.

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Impulse (software)

Impulse was a digital distribution and multiplayer platform.

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Initial public offering

Initial public offering (IPO) or stock market launch is a type of public offering in which shares of a company are sold to institutional investors and usually also retail (individual) investors; an IPO is underwritten by one or more investment banks, who also arrange for the shares to be listed on one or more stock exchanges.

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Insomniac Games

Insomniac Games, Inc. is an American video game developer whose corporate headquarters is located in Burbank, California.

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Intellectual property

Intellectual property (IP) is a category of property that includes intangible creations of the human intellect, and primarily encompasses copyrights, patents, and trademarks.

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Ireland

Ireland (Éire; Ulster-Scots: Airlann) is an island in the North Atlantic.

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Italy

Italy (Italia), officially the Italian Republic (Repubblica Italiana), is a sovereign state in Europe.

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Jolt Online Gaming

Jolt Online Gaming was an online gaming company hosted in Ireland.

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Kongregate

Kongregate is an American mobile, PC, and Console publisher and web gaming portal.

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Leonard Riggio

Leonard S. Riggio (born February 28, 1941).

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Metroid: Other M

Metroid: Other M is an action-adventure video game developed collaboratively Team Ninja and Nintendo, with the latter also publishing it, for the Wii video game console.

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Micromania (video game retailer)

Micromania is the major video game retail company in France founded in 1983 by Albert Loridan.

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MovieStop

MovieStop was a retailer of new and used movies and related merchandise.

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Multiplayer video game

A multiplayer video game is a video game in which more than one person can play in the same game environment at the same time, either locally or over the internet.

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Netherlands

The Netherlands (Nederland), often referred to as Holland, is a country located mostly in Western Europe with a population of seventeen million.

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New York City

The City of New York, often called New York City (NYC) or simply New York, is the most populous city in the United States.

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New York Stock Exchange

The New York Stock Exchange (abbreviated as NYSE, and nicknamed "The Big Board"), is an American stock exchange located at 11 Wall Street, Lower Manhattan, New York City, New York.

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New Zealand

New Zealand (Aotearoa) is a sovereign island country in the southwestern Pacific Ocean.

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Nintendo

Nintendo Co., Ltd. is a Japanese multinational consumer electronics and video game company headquartered in Kyoto.

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Norway

Norway (Norwegian: (Bokmål) or (Nynorsk); Norga), officially the Kingdom of Norway, is a unitary sovereign state whose territory comprises the western portion of the Scandinavian Peninsula plus the remote island of Jan Mayen and the archipelago of Svalbard.

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OnLive

OnLive was a Mountain View, California-based provider of cloud virtualization technologies.

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Part-time contract

A part-time contract is a form of employment that carries fewer hours per week than a full-time job.

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Play N Trade

Play N Trade is an American franchisor operating in the video game and consumer electronics space, with an emphasis on video gaming lifestyle.

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PlayStation Network

PlayStation Network (PSN) is a digital media entertainment service provided by Sony Interactive Entertainment.

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Pop-up retail

Pop-up retail, also known as pop-up store (pop-up shop in the UK, Australia and Ireland) or flash retailing, is a trend of opening short-term sales spaces that started in Los Angeles and now pop up all over the United States, Canada, China, Japan, Mexico, France, Germany, the United Kingdom and Australia.

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Public company

A public company, publicly traded company, publicly held company, publicly listed company, or public corporation is a corporation whose ownership is dispersed among the general public in many shares of stock which are freely traded on a stock exchange or in over the counter markets.

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Ready at Dawn

Ready At Dawn Studios is an American video game developer located in Irvine, California and is composed of former members of Naughty Dog and Blizzard Entertainment.

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Retail

Retail is the process of selling consumer goods or services to customers through multiple channels of distribution to earn a profit.

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Reuters

Reuters is an international news agency headquartered in London, United Kingdom.

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Ross Perot

Henry Ross Perot (born June 27, 1930) is an American business magnate and former politician.

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S&P 600

The S&P SmallCap 600 Index, more commonly known as the S&P 600, is a stock market index from Standard & Poor's.

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Salt Lake City

Salt Lake City (often shortened to Salt Lake and abbreviated as SLC) is the capital and the most populous municipality of the U.S. state of Utah.

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San Francisco

San Francisco (initials SF;, Spanish for 'Saint Francis'), officially the City and County of San Francisco, is the cultural, commercial, and financial center of Northern California.

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Song of the Deep

Song of the Deep is a metroidvania video game developed by Insomniac Games and published by GameTrust Games.

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Southeastern United States

The Southeastern United States (Sureste de Estados Unidos, Sud-Est des États-Unis) is the eastern portion of the Southern United States, and the southern portion of the Eastern United States.

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Square Enix

Square Enix Holdings Co., Ltd. is a Japanese video game developer, publisher, and distribution company that is best known for its Final Fantasy, Dragon Quest, and Kingdom Hearts role-playing video game franchises, among numerous others.

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Steam (software)

Steam is a digital distribution platform developed by Valve Corporation, which offers digital rights management (DRM), multiplayer gaming, video streaming and social networking services.

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Stock swap

A stock swap is a strategy used during a merger or acquisition of a company.

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Strip mall

A strip mall (also called a shopping plaza, shopping center, or mini-mall) is an open-air shopping mall where the stores are arranged in a row, with a sidewalk in front.

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Sweden

Sweden (Sverige), officially the Kingdom of Sweden (Swedish), is a Scandinavian country in Northern Europe.

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Switzerland

Switzerland, officially the Swiss Confederation, is a sovereign state in Europe.

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Sycamore Partners

Sycamore Partners is a private equity firm based in New York specializing in investments through a variety of private equity strategies, most notably leveraged buyouts, distressed buyouts, complex corporate carveouts and debt investments.

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Tequila Works

Tequila Works is a video game developer located in Madrid, Spain.

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Texas

Texas (Texas or Tejas) is the second largest state in the United States by both area and population.

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The Dallas Morning News

The Dallas Morning News is a daily newspaper serving the Dallas–Fort Worth area of Texas, with an average of 271,900 daily subscribers.

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The Home Depot

The Home Depot Inc. or Home Depot is an American home improvement supplies retailing company that sells tools, construction products, and services.

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The Oregonian

The Oregonian is a daily newspaper based in Portland, Oregon, owned by Advance Publications.

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ThinkGeek

ThinkGeek is an American retailer that caters to computer enthusiasts and "geek culture".

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Thomas G. Plaskett

Thomas G. Plaskett is an American business executive who served as CEO of Continental Airlines, Pan American World Airways, and Greyhound Lines.

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Ticker symbol

A ticker symbol or stock symbol is an abbreviation used to uniquely identify publicly traded shares of a particular stock on a particular stock market.

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U.S. Securities and Exchange Commission

The U.S. Securities and Exchange Commission (SEC) is an independent agency of the United States federal government.

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United States

The United States of America (USA), commonly known as the United States (U.S.) or America, is a federal republic composed of 50 states, a federal district, five major self-governing territories, and various possessions.

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Utah

Utah is a state in the western United States.

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Video game

A video game is an electronic game that involves interaction with a user interface to generate visual feedback on a video device such as a TV screen or computer monitor.

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Video game accessory

A video game accessory is a distinct piece of hardware that is required to use a video game console, or one that enriches the video game's play experience.

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Video game console

A video game console is an electronic, digital or computer device that outputs a video signal or visual image to display a video game that one or more people can play.

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Video game journalism

Video game journalism is a branch of journalism concerned with the reporting and discussion of video games.

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WBIW

WBIW (1340 AM) is a radio station broadcasting a News Talk Information format.

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Xbox Game Pass

Xbox Game Pass is a subscription service from Microsoft for use with its Xbox One games console.

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Xbox Live

Xbox Live is an online multiplayer gaming and digital media delivery service created and operated by Microsoft.

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ZiNG Pop Culture Australia

ZiNG Pop Culture Australia is an Australian Pop Culture retailer.

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References

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