March 21‚ 2012 GOOGLE CASE STUDY Google is well known to everyone. No matter if you are young or not so young‚ computer savvy or not‚ Google’s name will undoubtedly pop up in when discussing computers. Google continues to grow swiftly every day. It began in 1996 with the meeting of Larry Page and Sergey Brin at Stanford. Larry‚ who was 22 at the time had graduated from University of Michigan and was considering attending Stanford. Sergey‚ who was 21‚ was assigned the task of showing Larry around
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In 2009‚ Google has created PiLab to improve people’s operation. PiLab initiated Project Oxygen to research the impact of managers on employees and methods to enhance management. Google’s problem now is how to implement the research to increase efficiency for management. There are three alternatives which are to study senior management and executives‚ providing guidance to team composition and to study the complete life cycle of managers. The criteria used to evaluate each alternative are whether
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It’s really the people that make Google the kind of company it is. We hire people who are smart and determined‚ and we favor ability over experience. Although Googlers share common goals and visions for the company‚ we hail from all walks of life and speak dozens of languages‚ reflecting the global audience that we serve. And when not at work‚ Googlers pursue interests ranging from cycling to beekeeping‚ from frisbee to foxtrot. We strive to maintain the open culture often associated with startups
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Opportunities Advertising partnership with Yahoo Experimental partnerships with radio and print media Acquisitions of businesses (YouTube‚ DoubleClick) Other partnerships (AOL Time Warner‚ NASA‚ News. Corp.) Increase in online advertising Online video increasing Google engineers are encouraged to spend 20% of their work time (one day per week) on projects that interest them 1‚300 résumés a day Froogle.com / Google Product Search Threats Potential Yahoo/Microsoft alliance Facebook Click
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Google recently managed to developed a technology that is hands free and head mounted smart devices that can be worn by users "wearable computing".Google Glasses will look like a pair of normal eyeglasses‚ but the lens of the glasses will be an interactive‚ smartphone-like display.It is also able to connect to WiFi and Bluetooth. The glass will be using Apple’s iOS. It is expected to come out late in 2013 and could be available by these prices. It is available in 2 versions : Explorer Version -
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GOOGLE INC. History of Google Inc. Google ’s founders‚ Larry Page and Sergey Brin‚ met by chance on a Stanford University tour in the summer of 1995. Page‚ at the time‚ was working on a PhD research project involving the mathematical properties of the link structure on the internet. The research project‚ "BackRub"‚ used an algorithm to follow the links in a webpage and analyze all the connections. The PageRank algorithm generated a popularity index for each web page based on the quantity and
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Partnered with Yahoo and AOL * Responding to 100 million searches a day * Introduced AdWords‚ advertising program * Enabled Google to make money * 2001- Google is profitable * 2002- Generated $440 million in revenue * 2005- Share price at $414 * Giving Google $123 billion equity market value * 2004-2005- Google grows though innovations and additions to company: * Google Book Search‚ Google Finance‚ Gmail‚ Google Calendar‚ Google Docs‚ Google Maps‚ Google
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1. Introduction 2.1 Background of company Google Inc. is an American multinational corporation focused on Internet-based products and services. Google business is around the key areas: search‚ advertising‚ operating systems and platform‚ enterprise and hardware products from Motorola business. However the main source of the company ’s revenues is from Adwords. Google’s revenues rose to a record-breaking high of $14.42 billion‚ controlled by record regional revenues no matter where you look
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more concentrated (i.e.: dominated by fewer firms)? ● Is search a winner-take-all business? ● In renewing its deal with AOL‚ could Google afford to pay AOL more than 100% of the revenue generated from AOL searches? ● How did Microsoft’s maximum affordable bid for AOL’s search traffic compare to Google’s? In addition to enhancing its core search business‚ should Google also branch out into new arenas? Which of the follow would you recommend: ● Building a full-fledged portal like Yahoo’s; ● Targeting
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Google and the Government of China: A case study in Cross-Cultural Negotiations Develop a negotiations planning document using the Kellogg format in Exhibit 11 Issue Google Chinese government Purpose of negotiation Priority: 1 Position: focuses on profit and brand management Priority: 2 Position: technological‚ economic gaining Interests: A population of 1.3 billion along with a growing economy makes Chinese market extremely important for Google to enter Interests: It wants Google
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