TED

TED stands for
 * Tenders Electronic Daily - Supplement to the Official Journal of the European Union (or OJ)
 * Technology, Entertainment, Design - a small non-profit devoted to Ideas Worth Spreading
 * TED spread, initially the difference between the T-Bill and the EuroDollar futures
 * Total Economy Database™, The Conference Board's comprehensive database with annual data covering GDP, population, employment, hours, labour quality, capital services, labour productivity, and Total Factor Productivity for 123 countries in the world.
 * TED.com, aka Technology, Entertainment and Design, is a nonprofit devoted to spreading ideas, usually in the form of short, powerful talks