Course: | BUS508-Contemporary Business | Submitted to: | | Submitted by: | | | | | | | | Date of Submission: June 16th‚ 2012 Title of Assignment 5: Financial Management: Google and Microsoft. CERTIFICATION OF AUTHORSHIP: I certify that I am the author of this paper and that any assistance I received in its preparation is fully acknowledged and disclosed in the paper. I have also cited any sources from which I used data‚ ideas
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“…Microsoft and Apple have always been at each other’s throats‚ so when they get into bed together you have to start wondering what’s going on…”- David Drummond‚ Senior VP and Chief Legal Officer‚ Google. Mr. Drummond stunned the world with this accusation late 3rd August 2011 in the official Google blog. The Android operating system took the mobile-phone market by storm as its latest version(Honeycomb 3.0) wowed the smart-phone users with out-of-this-world features like multi-tasking‚ multi-touch
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The Ansoff product-market matrix presents 4 different growth strategies – market penetration‚ market development‚ product development and product diversification.. Igor Ansoff was a Russian/American mathematician who applied his work to the world of business. His most famous work is the Ansoff Matrix. The purpose of this matrix is to help managers consider how to grow their business through existing or new products
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people are bringing to market first and observing what seems to be gaining traction‚ then very rapidly coming up with their own version of that innovation." Samsung’s aggression has gotten it into trouble in the past‚ losing a high profile case to Apple for imitating its design. But the reputation hit and the fine were a small price to pay. The company pivots and produces quickly‚ coming out with a variety of devices. It sees what the market responds to‚ pushes successes‚ and kills failures. And
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Top 5 Vendors‚ Worldwide Tablet Shipments‚ Fourth Quarter 2012 (Preliminary) (Units Shipments are in millions) Vendor 4Q12 Shipments 4Q12 Market Share 4Q11 Shipments 4Q11 Market Share 4Q12/4Q11 Growth 1. Apple 22.9 43.6% 15.5 51.7% 48.1% 2. Samsung 7.9 15.1% 2.2 7.3% 263.0% 3. Amazon.com Inc. 6.0 11.5% 4.7 15.9% 26.8% 4. ASUS 3.1 5.8% 0.6 2.0% 402.3% 5. Barnes & Noble 1.0 1.9% 1.4 4.6% -27.7% Others 11.6 22.1% 5.5 18.5% 108.9% All Vendors
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your assignment and write your name‚ roll number and subject at the top of each page. (Detailed instructions/guidelines will be uploaded on portal) Note: Attempt any one question. ASSIGNMENT Questions 1 With the help of BCG Matrix (Boston Consultancy Group Matrix) of classifying the business of a firm into four distinct categories namely: Stars‚ Question Marks‚ Cash Cows and Dogs; please classify different products/ companies in the same industry. Questions 2 Please share the marketing
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Microsoft Zune and Apple iPod I. Introduction: Hook: Portable MP3 players have come a long way since their humble beginnings in the late 1990s. Subjects: Microsoft Zune and ipod Purpose: analyzing differences between two mobile T.S: The world’s first MP3 players‚ The Eiger Labs MPMan F10 and the Diamond Multimedia Rio PMP300 were shipped with 32 Mbytes of internal memory. MPEG Audio Layer III (MP3) the standard for audio compression that makes any music file smaller with little or
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it seems that Google and Apple are quite ‘new’ companies and their structure does not resemble the traditional type of structure‚ this will have positive implications for both companies as their structure will be relevant to today’s times and the business needs. A downside of not having a traditional type of structure within these companies is less chance of promotion as there are not many levels within the organisations as there would be with a hierarchy formed structure. Apple has a wheel like
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Introduction: It seems that the competition that has been brewing between Apple Inc. (NASDAQ: AAPL) and Microsoft Corp. (NASDAQ: MSFT) has never really died down from the late 1970s‚ even as both companies have had ups and downs in the stock market and in the consumer products market as well. Apple Inc. v. Microsoft Corp.‚ was a copyright infringement lawsuit in which Apple Computer sought to prevent Microsoft and Hewlett-Packard from using visual graphical user interface (GUI) elements that were
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OF MANAGEMENT LEGAL ISSUE BETWEEN APPLE AND MICROSOFT FOR USE OF CERTAIN ELEMENTS OF GRAPHICAL USER INTERFACE UNDER GUIDANCE OF MANEESH YADAV BY ASHISH KUMAR SECTION- A JL12PGDM042 Full case name - Apple Computer‚ Inc. v. Microsoft Corporation and Hewlett-Packard Co. Date decidedSeptember 19‚ 1994 Apple Computer‚ Inc. v. Microsoft Corporation‚ was a copyright infringement lawsuit in which Apple Computer‚ Inc. (now Apple Inc.) sought to prevent Microsoft and Hewlett-Packard from using visual
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