GOOGLE: Google’s mission is to organize the world‘s information and make it universally accessible and useful. Beginning in 1996‚ Stanford University graduate students Larry Page and Sergey Brin built a search engine called “BackRub” that used links to determine the importance of individual web pages. By 1998 they had formalized their work‚ creating the company you know today as Google. Our philosophy Ten things we know to be true “The perfect search engine‚” says co–founder Larry Page‚
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Background Dell traces its origins to 1984‚ when Michael Dell created PCs Limited while a student at the University of Texas at Austin. The dorm-room headquartered company sold IBM PC-compatible computers built from stock components. Dell dropped out of school in order to focus full-time on his fledgling business‚ after getting about $300‚000 in expansion-capital from his family. In 1985‚ the company produced the first computer of its own design‚ the "Turbo PC"‚ which sold for $795. PCs Limited
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Choice of Foreign Market Entry Mode Cognitions from Empirical and Theoretical Studies Xuemin Zhao and Reinhold Decker Dr. Reinhold Decker is Professor of Marketing at the Department of Economics and Business Administration of the University of Bielefeld P. O. Box 10 01 31 D-33501 Bielefeld Germany Phone: +49-(0)521-106-6913 / 3936 Fax: +49-(0)521-106-6456 E-Mail: rdecker@wiwi.uni-bielefeld.de Xuemin Zhao is Ph.D. student of the Graduate School for Economics and Management at the University of
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David Yoffie - Strategy: Taking Dell Private Materials: Michael Dell and the private equity firm Silver Lake today walked away with their prize‚ the computing company Dell‚ having won the approval from a significant majority of shareholders to take the company private in a $25 billion leveraged buyout. Success for Dell as a private company — which it will be within a few months — is by no means assured. Simply put‚ the plan calls for Dell to double down on investments in research and development
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Biographical information: Good Evening‚ my name is Michael Dell and I am the founder and CEO of Dell‚ Inc. I am 43 years old and live in Texas with my beautiful wife Susan and our 4 children. Abilities‚ traits‚ and experiences: You may not believe this but my fondness of computers started when I was 15 when I took apart an Apple computer and rebuilt it. Well obviously there were no classes on being an entrepreneur in high school‚ so I had a lot to learn on my own. Later on while attending
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Dell Enhances Online Marketing Capabilities and Improves Site Performance with Commerce Server 2000 Published: September 2001 To improve performance and enable complex online marketing campaigns‚ Dell upgraded its online commerce platform from Microsoft Site Server 3.0 Commerce Edition to Commerce Server 2000. The flexible component-based architecture and extensive prebuilt functionality in Commerce Server enabled Dell to implement its new campaign capabilities in just six weeks of development
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differentiates’ Dell from its competitors is that they built the computer systems after they received the order. Therefore‚ Dell’s work-in-process (WIP) and finished goods inventory remained low compared to industry leaders‚ such as‚ Compaq‚ Apple‚ and IBM. Dell maintained their inventory. They ordered parts and components based on sales forecasts. Many of their suppliers‚ who had warehouses near their Austin Texas and Ireland plants‚ often delivered parts on a daily basis. Dell issued “releases”
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Dell ‘Kinotop’ – self-charging laptop based on kinetic energy. ‘Kinotop – you care‚ you work‚ you save’ Zoja Micunovic A4021609 MSc Marketing Intake 5 1. Introduction 1 The purpose of this report is to research and evaluate the UK consumer in order to launch an innovative ‘Kinotop’ laptop computer which would expand Dell’s target B2C group and also market share in the UK and establish ‘Dell Kinotop’ as a new ‘must have’ item amongst professionals between the ages of 35-50 which self recharges
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Introduction Dell is the #1 personal computer provider in the USA and #2 worldwide. Dell has nearly two billion interactions with customers worldwide each year‚ and processes more than three million transactions daily. On average‚ over 140‚000 Dell computer systems are shipped each day.2 1 individual needs Dell offers real-time feedback online to suppliers about critical aspects of inventory management such as inventory volumes‚ product quality and customer satisfaction. Dell uses Radio Frequency
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context The year 1999 will be used as the base year for Dell Computer Corporation to resolve the challenges they are facing. II. Point of View The point of view of Mr. Keith Maxwell‚ Senior Vice President for Worldwide Operation of Dell Computer Corporation will be used in the study since his decision would be the basis for the first location plant of the corporation in Latin America. III. Statement of the problem Should Dell decide to put up its location plant in Rio Grande do Sul
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