Alibaba.com’s Brief Company Background On November 6‚ 2007‚ Alibaba.com debuted on the Hong Kong Stock Exchange‚ raising US$1.5 billion to become the world’s biggest Internet stock offering since Google’s initial public offering (IPO) in 2004. On the first trading day‚ frenzied purchases of the stock pushed prices up to by 193%‚ the fourth largest first day gain in Hong Kong’s stock exchange in three years. The closing price of US$5.09 per share gave Alibaba.com a value of about US$25.6 billion
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.COM Failure Marketing and the .COM Bust Why Marketing? The .COM bust‚ the .COM “bubble”‚ the failure of companies that “dot-bombed”‚ happened more than a decade ago‚ but the lessons learned are important for the present tech sector. Many investors argue that we are in a bubble now‚ with companies like Instagram selling for $1 billion and hundreds of others getting million dollar valuations. Looking back‚ it’s clear from a marketing perspective current aspects of the products and websites themselves
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Canada:John Wiley& Sons‚Inc.‚2008. Ferrell‚ Fraedrich‚ Ferrell. Business Ethics Ethical Decision Making and Cases. Massachusetts: Houghton Mifflin Company. 7th Edition‚ 2008 McGuire‚ Russ. "WordCom ’s deadly culture." WorldNetDaily 17 June 2003. 17 June 2003. Sarno‚ John J‚."Lessons From WorldCom".Slideshow. 16 January 2009.. Tavis Smiley. Cynthia Cooper. 15 April 2008. Transcript. 15 April 2008. WorldCom..
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The War on Drugs Megen Smith COM/172 March 12‚ 2012 Angela Gist University of Phoenix Despite large amounts of government funding and agencies working together the war on drugs is the most counterproductive measure the United States has launched because its main focus was to stop drug trafficking and criminal activity‚ but it has done nothing but increase incarceration and large amounts of spending by the U.S. One of the first bills introduced to the United States was the National Prohibition
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David Gill COM/105 Analyzing Written Essays • What are the four types of essay organization discussed in the course readings? What characteristics make these essays expository? The four types of essay organizations discussed in the course readings are topic‚ time order‚ space order and informative process. The characteristics that make these essays expository are a defined thesis in the introduction‚ evidence in each paragraph to support the thesis‚ information presented in a non-biased
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Adrian Hall COM 200: Interpersonal Communication After reading the article “Close Relationship Sometimes Mask Poor Communication” it made me realize that I and my wife have poor communication skills. We been together for a good two years and we still haven’t gotten the proper communication between each other. She likes to be rude and cut me off while I’m trying to prove a point because she always thinks she’s right when clearly at times she’s wrong but won’t admit it. She always wants materialistic
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Background Starbucks Coffee Company (Starbucks) was established in 1971 as a fine coffee and tea retailer. In 1985‚ chairman and CEO Howard Schultz transformed the company into what it is today - a global coffee brand built on the knowledge of coffee‚ high-quality products‚ and a passion for educating customers about the merits of coffees and teas. Today‚ Starbucks has grown from its Seattle roots and sells imported coffee‚ premium teas‚ Italian style espresso‚ cold beverages‚ food items and coffee
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securities fraud‚ however they defended themselves to say that they were forced to cover things up by other top officials. As reading through the questions given in class it was hard to completely gather all thoughts into one area. We know that World Com is a for profit organization that provided telecommunications to
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September 6‚ 2014 Shannon Troutman Discussion 2.1: American Greed: Inside the WorldCom Scam Title: Pointing the Finger Question: The corporate scandal involving WorldCom regrettably illustrates improper cost transfers designed to achieve higher profit levels. WorldCom did not transfer the cost from leases from the balance sheet to the income statement as quickly as they should have. This had the effect of overstating assets on the balance sheet and net income on the income statement. Please watch
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