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DataGrand

DataGrand Inc. (达观数据) is a Shanghai-based enterprise AI company founded in 2015 by Chen Yunwen, known for intelligent document processing, OCR, and RPA products used by banks and insurers.

Datamation

Datamation is an American technology publication that began in 1957 as a trade magazine for the computer industry and became a web-only B2B technology news site in 1998.

Datang International Power

Datang International Power, also known as Datang International Power Generation Co., Ltd., is a large Chinese listed power generator controlled by China Datang Corporation, established in 1994.

DataRobot

DataRobot is a Boston-based enterprise artificial intelligence company founded in 2012 by Jeremy Achin and Thomas de Godoy, which pioneered automated machine learning and now sells a platform for building and governing AI.

DataSnipper

DataSnipper is an Amsterdam-based software company, founded in 2017, selling an audit and finance automation platform built inside Microsoft Excel; it became a Dutch unicorn in 2024.

DataTang (数据堂) (Hirain)

DataTang (数据堂) is a Beijing-based AI training-data company selling speech, image, and text datasets, founded by Qi Hongwei and listed on China's NEEQ since 2014.

Datavault AI Inc.

Datavault AI Inc., formerly Summit Semiconductor, is a publicly traded technology licensing company headquartered in Philadelphia, Pennsylvania. Founded in 2010, it trades on Nasdaq under the symbol DVLT and licenses data management and spatial-audio platforms.

Datawnas

Datawnas, written DTWNS in inscriptions, was a third-century king of Aksum and Habashat, named with his son Zaqarnas in an inscription found at al-Misʿal in Yemen.

Date clan

The Date clan (伊達氏, Date uji) was a Japanese samurai family of Fujiwara descent that ruled northern Honshū and, as lords of Sendai domain, ranked among the wealthiest daimyō.

Date Masamune (伊達 政宗)

Date Masamune (伊達政宗, 1567–1636), the One-Eyed Dragon, daimyō who founded Sendai domain at 620,000 koku, built Sendai Castle, and sent the 1613 Keichō Embassy to Rome under Hasekura Tsunenaga.

Date Munenari

Date Munenari (伊達宗城, 1818–1892) was a Japanese daimyo, the eighth lord of Uwajima, one of the bakumatsu Four Wise Lords, and later a Meiji statesman who concluded the 1871 Sino-Japanese Treaty of Friendship.

Date of birth of Jesus

The date of birth of Jesus, also called the birthdate of Jesus, is unstated in the Gospels; most scholars place it between 6 and 4 BCE, with December 25 first attested in 336 CE.

Date rape

Date rape: non-consensual intercourse by an acquaintance or date during a social engagement; also called acquaintance rape. Key facts: alcohol is the most common substance involved, Rohypnol and GHB are classic date rape drugs, and it is not a legally distinct rape category.

Date rape drug

Date rape drugs: any drug or alcohol, most often alcohol, used to make rape or sexual assault easier; includes Rohypnol, GHB, GBL, ketamine. Also called DFSA or chemical submission; rapid elimination hampers detection.

DATE World

DATE World (Decisive Action Training Environment World) is the U.S. Army's official unclassified fictional training universe, built by TRADOC G-2 with invented countries like Torbia and Donovia across Pacific, Europe, Caucasus, and Africa regions for live, virtual, and constructive training.

Dāṭhānāga

Dāṭhānāga (दाठानाग) is the name of a thera, or senior Buddhist monk, in Sri Lanka's Pali commentarial literature, including a tenth-century elder who recited the Abhidhamma for King Mahinda IV.

Datia State

Datia State (दतिया रियासत) was a Bundela princely state in present-day Madhya Pradesh, founded in 1626 by Bhagwan Rao, son of Bir Singh Deo of Orchha, and ruled until independence.

Dating

Dating, a twentieth-century American form of courtship between people assessing a relationship, evolved from supervised 'calling' to commercial dates, going steady, the post-1960 sexual revolution, and algorithmic online matching.

Dating the Bible

Dating the Bible, also called the date of the Bible, means two things: fixing the age of surviving manuscripts and estimating when the books themselves were composed.

Datis

Datis (داتیس), known as Datis the Mede, was an Achaemenid Persian commander under Darius I who jointly led the 490 BC expedition against Eretria and Athens, ending in defeat at Marathon.

Dative case

Dative case: grammatical case marking indirect objects, recipients, beneficiaries, and experiencers; from Greek dotikē ptōsis via Latin dativus. Covers PIE origins, Greek instrumental-locative merger, Germanic catch-all dative, and syncretism.

Dato' Bahaman

Dato' Bahaman, born Abdul Rahman, was the district chief of Semantan in Pahang who led the Pahang Uprising, also called the Semantan Rebellion, against British rule from 1891 to 1895.

Datong mutiny of 1524

The Datong mutiny of 1524 (大同兵變) was a rising of Ming garrison soldiers at the frontier town of Datong, who killed grand coordinator Zhang Wenjin.

Datorama

Datorama was an Israeli-founded software company offering an AI-powered marketing intelligence and analytics platform, acquired by Salesforce in 2018 for a reported price above $800 million.

Datrium

Datrium was a hybrid cloud data infrastructure startup founded in 2012 in Sunnyvale, California, known for its DVX disaggregated hyperconverged platform and acquired by VMware in 2020.

Datta sampradaya

Datta sampradaya (दत्त संप्रदाय) is a Hindu religious tradition centered on the deity Dattatreya, shaped in the fifteenth and sixteenth centuries and followed chiefly in western India, especially Maharashtra, Gujarat, and northern Karnataka.

Dattaji Scindia

Dattaji Scindia (दत्ताजी शिंदे) was a Maratha commander of the Scindia family, a son of Ranoji Shinde who governed Lahore and Multan and died fighting Najib-ud-Daula at Burari Ghat near Delhi in January 1760.

Dattatray Vithoba Bharne

Dattatray Vithoba Bharne is an Indian Nationalist Congress Party politician serving as Maharashtra's agriculture minister, and has represented the Indapur constituency in the state assembly since 2014.

Dattatreya (दत्तात्रेय)

Dattatreya (दत्तात्रेय), also known as Dattatray, is a Hindu guru-deity, son of the sage Atri and Anasuya, depicted with three heads and worshipped in western India.

Datu

Datu: Southeast Asian chiefly title for the leader of a pre-colonial Philippine barangay (30-100 families), also rendered dato or datuk; under Spain reduced to cabeza de barangay, and still the core of traditional governance among Magindanaon and Lumad communities.