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BBK Electronics (步步高电子)

BBK Electronics, also known as Bubugao, was a Chinese consumer electronics company founded by Duan Yongping in 1995, best known as the origin of OPPO and vivo.

BBL Drizzy

BBL Drizzy is a 2024 AI-generated soul song by comedian King Willonius (Will Hatcher), made with Udio to mock Drake over BBL rumors; Metro Boomin sampled it as a diss beat contest during the Kendrick Lamar-Drake feud.

BBM92 protocol

BBM92 is an entanglement-based quantum key distribution protocol proposed in 1992 by Bennett, Brassard, and Mermin, in which two parties measure entangled photon pairs to share a secret key.

BBN Airlines

BBN Airlines Indonesia is an Indonesian ACMI leasing, charter, and cargo airline based in Jakarta, founded in 2022 as a subsidiary of Avia Solutions Group.

Bbno$

Bbno$ (baby no money), real name Alexander Leon Gumuchian, is a Canadian rapper from Vancouver born 1995. Independent artist behind the viral 2019 hit "Lalala" with Y2K, albums eat ya veggies and bbno$, and Yung Gravy collaborations.

Bbno$ (album)

bbno$ is the self-titled ninth album by Canadian rapper bbno$ (Alexander Gumuchian), released October 17, 2025: 21 tracks, 50 minutes, No. 33 on the Canadian Albums chart, hit single "check", features VNLLA, Käärijä, and Ironmouse.

BBOXX

BBOXX, legally Bboxx Ltd, is a pay-as-you-go off-grid solar and energy-services company founded in London in 2010 by Imperial College graduates, selling solar home systems across Africa and now headquartered in Kigali, Rwanda.

BBR (congestion control)

BBR (Bottleneck Bandwidth and Round-trip propagation time) is a TCP and QUIC congestion control algorithm developed by Google in 2016 that models the network path instead of using packet loss as its congestion signal.

BBSome complex member BBS5, PH domain

BBS5 is a 341-amino-acid subunit of the BBSome, the eight-protein complex that sorts membrane proteins into the primary cilium; its two PH domains bind phosphoinositides, and mutations cause Bardet-Biedl syndrome.

Bbuddah... Hoga Terra Baap

Bbuddah... Hoga Terra Baap (बुड्ढा होगा तेरा बाप) is a 2011 Hindi action comedy directed by Puri Jagannadh, starring Amitabh Bachchan as an aging hitman returning to Mumbai; released 1 July 2011, U/A certificate, box office flop.

Bby Wow

BbY WOW is a 2026 Spanish-language song by Karol G with Judeline and Rusowsky, from the album No Me Arrepiento de Sentir Tanto; produced by Tainy, it samples the Coolie Dance Riddim and reached No. 1 on the Billboard Global 200 and Hot Latin Songs.

BC

BC (Before Christ) is the label for years before the Christian era, an epoch introduced by the monk Dionysius Exiguus in 525 as Anno Domini.

Bc (programming language)

bc (basic calculator) is an arbitrary-precision calculator language for Unix with C-like syntax, written at Bell Labs by Robert Morris and Lorinda Cherry, first appearing in Version 6 UNIX.

BC Energy Investments

BC Energy Investments Corp., formerly Bridas Corporation, is a private oil and gas holding company headquartered in Buenos Aires, co-owned equally by Bridas Energy Holdings and CNOOC, holding 50 percent of Pan American Energy Group.

BC Energy Step Code

The BC Energy Step Code is a 2017 British Columbia standard requiring new buildings to meet progressively higher energy-efficiency performance levels, called Steps, toward net-zero energy-ready construction by 2032.

Bc European Capital X -

BC European Capital X (BCEC X) is a family of parallel limited partnerships holding BC Partners' tenth flagship buyout fund, closed at €7 billion in January 2018.

BC Ferries

BC Ferries is the ferry operator linking Vancouver Island, the Gulf Islands, and mainland British Columbia. Founded in 1960 as a government service, it became the private British Columbia Ferry Services Inc. in 2003.

BC Gas Pipeline

The BC Gas Pipeline, formally the Westcoast or BC Pipeline system, is a natural gas transmission pipeline in British Columbia, Canada, owned by Westcoast Energy, an Enbridge affiliate, and opened in 1957.

BC Group

BC Group, formerly BC Technology Group and renamed OSL Group in 2024, is a Hong Kong-listed digital asset company whose OSL platform is licensed by the SFC.

BC Hydro

BC Hydro, formally the British Columbia Hydro and Power Authority, is a provincial Crown corporation that generates and distributes electricity for most of British Columbia, serving over five million people.

BC Jean

BC Jean (Brittany Jean Carlson, born 1987, San Diego) is an American singer-songwriter who co-wrote Beyoncé's "If I Were a Boy" and forms the indie pop duo Alexander Jean with husband Mark Ballas.

BC Khimki

BC Khimki (БК «Химки»), basketball club founded 5 January 1997 in Khimki, Russia. Won Russian Cup 2008, VTB League 2011, EuroCup 2012 and 2015; EuroLeague playoff team; now a Superliga club.

BC Lions

The BC Lions are a professional Canadian football team based in Vancouver that plays in the CFL's West Division, with home games at BC Place.

BC Place

BC Place, also known as B.C. Place Stadium, is a multi-purpose stadium in downtown Vancouver, home to the BC Lions and Vancouver Whitecaps FC since 1983.

BC Prienai

BC Prienai was a Lithuanian professional basketball club founded in 1994, three times an LKL bronze medalist and 2017 Baltic league champion, famous for signing the Ball brothers.

BC Roma

BC Roma (Basketball Club Roma SPQR), a Rome basketball club founded 2026, plays Serie A and BKT EuroCup after taking over Vanoli Cremona's rights; owned by Donnie Nelson with Luka Dončić an investor, coached by Alessandro Magro.

BC TELECOM Inc.

BC TELECOM Inc. was a Canadian telecommunications holding company headquartered in Burnaby, British Columbia, parent of BC TEL and Canada's second-largest telephone company until its 1999 merger with TELUS.

BC Žalgiris

BC Žalgiris (Kauno „Žalgiris“), founded 1944 in Kaunas, is Lithuania's most decorated basketball club: 1999 EuroLeague champion, 24 LKL titles, home at club-managed Žalgirio Arena, record €28.8M budget for 2026-27.

BC-1

BC-1 (CVCL_1079, ATCC CRL-2230) is a human B-cell line from a 1992 AIDS-related primary effusion lymphoma, dually infected with KSHV and EBV, used to culture KSHV and test lymphoma therapies.

BC-3

BC-3 (CVCL_1080) is a human primary effusion lymphoma B-cell line established in 1995 from an 85-year-old HIV-negative man's pleural effusion; it carries KSHV/HHV-8 without EBV, unlike earlier PEL lines.