Michael D. Smith‚ Professor of Information Technology and Marketing‚ Carnegie Mellon University‚ spoke about piracy in the digital book realm. He was at the Digital Book World conference today in New York‚ and mentioned during his session that piracy is mainly an economic problem. He went on to elaborate that there were four main myths in the publishing industry and from the public at large. “Myth 1‚ piracy doesn’t harm sales. Myth 2‚ you can’t compete with free. Myth 3‚ anti-piracy regulation
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acquisition. CCI went public in 1993 and now it has 2.5 million shares sold with price of $1.25 per share. Management owns 30% of the company. Garibaldi doesn’t know whether management will be willing for merger or not. Yet‚ he is quite sure that CCI’s managers didn’t have discussions with anyone else about a merger. That’s a good point for CompuTech. Whether CompuTech should make an offer and if so should it be friendly deal or hostile takeover will be analysed in this paper. Besides from these‚ there will
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Impact of Mergers and Acquisitions on Employee Motivation- Telecommunication Merger in the UK A case of T-Mobile and Orange Mobile Merger Abstract Over the past one decade‚ mergers and acquisitions increased at a record rate globally‚ especially in the United States. The telecommunication sector experienced no exclusion to this phenomenon and the three major telecommunication mergers included MCI and Verizon‚ Sprint and Nextel‚ and BellSouth and AT&T. As a result‚ the telecom playfield
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The topic canvasses the effects of organizational culture on the M&A. This annotated bibliography is composed of research based‚ case study and literature reviewed articles‚ that all of them are recently published papers. Although in the aspect of mergers and acquisitions‚ organisational culture has various definition and encirclement (Riad‚ 2007)‚ from recently introduced emotional intelligence (Harrison-Walker‚ 2008) to theoretical definitions (Schraeder & Self‚ 2003)‚ and also there are some debates
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The Do’s and Don’ts of Business Etiquette We live in a world where business is about relationships. We do business with people that we like. People that we know and trust. It is therefore imperative that we present ourselves authentically‚ with honesty and integrity but also take into account the simple yet profound practice of business etiquette. Etiquette‚ in its basic form‚ is practicing good manners; knowing how to behave in a given situation and knowing how to interact with people in
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Don’t get me started on... Public transport. Don’t get me started on buses‚ taxies‚ trains or planes. Please don’t assume that I am some conceited‚ arrogant person who would never use public transport simply due to the ‘public’ aspect of it. I fully appreciate that public transport is specifically for us and is there so we are able to meet are individual needs‚ as well as to make our life’s easier‚ but sometimes public transport is not the best source of travel; believe me! Every citizen in
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Updated 2011 There are many agencies working to abolish the death penalty the American Civil Liberties Union believes the death penalty inherently violates the constitutional ban against cruel and unusual punishment and the guarantees of due process of law and of equal protection under the law. Furthermore‚ we believe that the state should not give itself the right to kill human beings – especially when it kills with premeditation and ceremony‚ in the name of the law or in the name of its people
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TITLE : THE DO’S AND DON’TS OF PRESENTING A SPEECH IN PUBLIC. 1.0 PRESENTATION PROFILE: 1.1 THE AUDIENCE The audiences of my speech included a group of teachers in a school. This group of audience stands by a people who came from a different background of knowledge. The aged are between 25 to 50 years old which included 80 male and female teachers among them. As I’ve been told before they have less experience of presenting a speech in public. They also have different qualification and
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Don’t Bite Your Nails! You hear something in the middle of the night. You’re scared. What do you do? Scream? Hide under the covers? Maybe even... Bite your nails? Well‚ you don’t want to wake up anyone or look like a coward‚ so biting your nails seems to be the best option. It doesn’t even harm anyone! Everyone EXCEPT yourself... Things can be deceiving. Especially habits. Biting your nails can be a way of relieving stress. In another way‚ it’s an infection! You may be surprised how such a
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Contents Abstract 1 Key words: merger HP Compaq synergy 1 1.Introduction of the case 1 1.1 The Hewlett-Packard Company 1 1.2 The Compaq Company 2 1.3 Motives 2 1.3.1 Strategic motives 2 1.3.2 Financial motives 3 Operating Synergy (mainly from cost savings) 3 Contribution Margin 3 2.HP’s Concerns 4 2.1 Business portfolio 4 2.2 Strategic problems 4 2.3 Financial impacts 4 2.4 Integration risk 5 3.Analysis and solutions 5 3.1 Stand-alone valuation 5 3.2 Synergy valuation 6 3.3 Premium
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