Whois & Analysis for importgenius.com

Import Genius is a provider of business intelligence for the import-export industry.

Intro.

Import Genius gives customers access to shipping manifests for all shipments entering the United States of America in addition to several other countries around the world.

In 2008, the company gained considerable notoriety by using U.S. Customs records to detect the arrival of the 3G iPhone prior to Apple's announcement of the phone.

International trade is the exchange of capital, goods, and services across international borders or territories.

It is the exchange of goods and services among nations of the world.

In most countries, such trade represents a significant share of gross domestic product (GDP).

While international trade has existed throughout history (for example Uttarapatha, Silk Road, Amber Road, scramble for Africa, Trail of tears, Atlantic slave trade, salt roads), its economic, social, and political importance has been on the rise in recent centuries.

Globalization or globalisation (see spelling differences) is the action or procedure of international integration arising from the interchange of world views, products, ideas, and other aspects of culture.

Advances in transportation (such as the steam locomotive, steamship, jet engine, and container ships) and in telecommunications infrastructure (including the rise of the telegraph and its modern offspring, the Internet and mobile phones) have been major factors in globalization, generating further interdependence of economic and cultural activities.

A partnership is an arrangement where parties, known as partners, agree to cooperate to advance their mutual interests.

The partners in a partnership may be individuals, businesses, interest-based organizations, schools, governments or combinations.

Organizations may partner together to increase the likelihood of each achieving their mission and to amplify their reach.

A partnership may result in issuing and holding equity or may be only governed by a contract.

Partnership agreements can be formed in the following areas:

Research comprises "creative work undertaken on a systematic basis in order to increase the stock of knowledge, including knowledge of humans, culture and society, and the use of this stock of knowledge to devise new applications." It is used to establish or confirm facts, reaffirm the results of previous work, solve new or existing problems, support theorems, or develop new theories.

A research project may also be an expansion on past work in the field.

Research projects can be used to develop further knowledge on a topic, or in the example of a school research project, they can be used to further a student's research prowess to prepare them for future jobs or reports.

To test the validity of instruments, procedures, or experiments, research may replicate elements of prior projects or the project as a whole.

The primary purposes of basic research (as opposed to applied research) are documentation, discovery, interpretation, or the research and development (R&D) of methods and systems for the advancement of human knowledge.

Approaches to research depend on epistemologies, which vary considerably both within and between humanities and sciences.

There are several forms of research: scientific, humanities, artistic, economic, social, business, marketing, practitioner research, life, technological,etc.