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Computershare
Computershare is an Australian financial services company, founded in 1978 and based in Abbotsford, Victoria, that is the world's largest share registrar and transfer agent, serving over 25,000 clients.
Computerworld
Computerworld is an American trade publication covering enterprise technology for IT professionals, founded in 1967 as a weekly newspaper and now an online magazine under Foundry.
Computex
Computex, or COMPUTEX TAIPEI, is an annual information and communications technology trade show held in Taipei, Taiwan. First held in 1981, it is now among the world's leading technology exhibitions, focused on AI computing and robotics.
Comrade
Comrade: English word for a close companion, especially a fellow soldier (comrade-in-arms), and for a fellow communist or socialist; from Spanish camarada, chamber mate; used as an egalitarian political title since 1884.
Comunero Revolt of New Granada
The Comunero Revolt of New Granada (Revuelta de los Comuneros) was a 1781 insurrection against new taxes that broke out in El Socorro and ended with José Antonio Galán's execution in 1782.
Comuns Sumar
Comuns Sumar, a Catalan left electoral coalition of Catalunya en Comú, Barcelona en Comú, and Movimiento Sumar, contested the 12 May 2024 Catalan election, won 6 of 135 seats under Jéssica Albiach, and backed Salvador Illa's investiture.
Comverse Technology
Comverse Technology was a telecommunications software holding company supplying voice mail, fax, and messaging systems to telephone operators, known for the stock-options backdating scandal involving chief executive Kobi Alexander.
Côn Sơn Island
Côn Sơn Island (Đảo Côn Sơn, Poulo Condore), largest and only inhabited island of Vietnam's 16-island Côn Đảo archipelago, 230 km south of Ho Chi Minh City; French-run prison 1862–1975 with about 20,000 deaths, now a memorial and national park site.
CONAKAT
CONAKAT, the Confederation of Tribal Associations of Katanga, was a political party founded in 1958 that under Moïse Tshombe led Katanga's secession from the Congo until 1963.
Concealed carry in the United States
Concealed carry in the United States: state-regulated carrying of hidden firearms, now 29 permitless-carry states and 21 shall-issue states plus DC after the 2022 Bruen decision, with over 21.8 million permit holders in 2023.
Concealed information test
The concealed information test (CIT), formerly called the guilty knowledge test, is a psychophysiological memory-detection method measuring recognition of crime details through skin conductance, respiration, heart rate, or brain responses.
Concentration camp
A concentration camp is a site where governments detain civilians perceived as security risks without judicial process; the term predates the Nazi era but became synonymous with it.
Concentration of media ownership
Concentration of media ownership: control of outlets by few owners, via group, duopoly, or cross-media ownership. Measured with HHI and audience-share indices; shaped by FCC rules, the 1996 Telecom Act, and the EMFA media plurality test.
Concentration ratio
The concentration ratio (CR) is a measure of market concentration, the combined market share of the largest firms in a market, such as the four-firm CR4.
Concentric Analgesics
Concentric Analgesics is a private San Francisco biotechnology company, founded in 2014, developing non-opioid pain therapeutics based on TRPV1 agonist prodrugs such as vocacapsaicin, its lead post-surgical pain candidate.
Concentric zone model
Concentric zone model, or Burgess model, is Ernest Burgess's 1925 Chicago School model of urban growth as five rings radiating from a central business district, from the transition zone to the commuter zone, later challenged by Hoyt's sector and Harris–Ullman multiple nuclei models.
Concentrix
Concentrix Corporation is an American customer experience services and business process outsourcing company, spun off from SYNNEX in 2020 with $9.8 billion in fiscal 2025 revenue.
Concept
Concept: the basic unit of thought in philosophy and cognitive science, historically the medieval intentio. Building blocks of categorization, inference, and decision-making; theories include classical, prototype, theory-theory, and atomism.
Concept Ventures
Concept Ventures, formerly RLC Ventures, is a London-based venture capital firm founded by Reece Chowdhry in 2018 that specializes in pre-seed investing and holds roughly $200 million in assets.
Conceptual art
Conceptual art: art movement of the mid-1960s to mid-1970s in which the idea or concept outranks the finished object; named by Sol LeWitt in 1967, rooted in Duchamp's readymades, global in reach, and foundational for contemporary art.
Conceptual metaphor
Conceptual metaphor, the core construct of Conceptual Metaphor Theory (CMT) by Lakoff and Johnson (Metaphors We Live By, 1980), is a systematic mapping from a concrete source domain to an abstract target domain; the article covers its development, criticisms, applications, and computational research.
Concert of Europe
The Concert of Europe (Congress System, Vienna System) was great-power collective diplomacy founded after 1815 by Britain, Austria, Prussia, and Russia, joined by France in 1818, to preserve the Vienna settlement until the Crimean War.
Concertación
The Concertación de Partidos por la Democracia was a Chilean center-left coalition formed in 1988 to defeat Pinochet's dictatorship, which then won four consecutive presidencies from 1990 to 2010.
Conch Republic
The Conch Republic is a symbolic micronation proclaimed April 23, 1982, when Key West Mayor Dennis Wardlow mock-seceded over a Border Patrol roadblock, staged a sea battle, and turned protest into lasting island identity.
Concha y Toro
Concha y Toro is a Chilean winery founded by Melchor Concha y Toro in 1883 at Pirque near Santiago, now Chile's largest wine producer and exporter.
Concierge
A concierge is a hotel lobby professional who fulfills guests' requests, such as reservations and local information, a title now also used for residential and AI services.
Conciergerie
The Conciergerie, on Paris's Île de la Cité, is the surviving lower part of the Palais de la Cité, first royal residence of the kings of France, later a Revolutionary Tribunal prison where Marie-Antoinette was held before execution.
Conclave
A conclave is the sealed gathering of the College of Cardinals that elects the pope, held in the Sistine Chapel in Vatican City under rules dating to 1274.
Conclusion of the American Civil War
The American Civil War's conclusion ran from Lee's April 9, 1865 surrender of the Army of Northern Virginia at Appomattox through Johnston's, Taylor's, Kirby Smith's, and Stand Watie's surrenders to Johnson's August 20, 1866 peace proclamation.
Concord Healthcare Group
美中嘉和, also known as Concord Healthcare Group, is a Beijing-based oncology healthcare group operating cancer hospitals and leasing radiotherapy equipment, listed in Hong Kong in 2024.