Strategic Management 10-05-2011 Vanessa Ackah 6144748 Eline van Es 6189466 Questions case study 4: News Corporation 1. What is the extent and type of diversity undertaken by NewsCorp? NewsCorp started with a local newspaper in Australia but was soon the owner of the only national newspaper of Australia and over 20 local newspapers. It had enough profitability to expand to the UK‚ where it acquired more publishers. In 1984 NewsCorp also moved to the US and made the first major product
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not only led to FBI investigations‚ but also led to the closing of one of the World’s largest and longest running English Newspapers‚ News of the World. These scandals have also brought media attention on the flaws of the management style of Rupert Murdoch and the company’s corporate governance. Many claim that the duality of Chief Executive Officer (CEO) and the Chairman of the Board weakened News Corp’s ability to respond to crisis. The poor handling of the scandals by management has undoubtedly
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Bibliography: Dickinson‚ T. (2011‚ august 3). Rupert Murdoch ’s American Scandals. Retrieved september 12‚ 2011‚ from http://www.rollingstone.com/politics/news/rupert-murdochs-american-scandals-20110803: http://www.rollingstone.com/politics/news/rupert-murdochs-american-scandals-20110803 EarthTalk. (2010‚ June 26). The Controversy Over Triclosan in Consumer Products. Retrieved september 12‚ 2011‚ from http://business-ethics
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personal characteristics. Biometric devices grant users access to programs‚ systems‚ or rooms by analyzing some biometric identifier‚ such as a fingerprint or eye pattern. Two commonly used types of biometric security devices are fingerprint readers and iris recognition systems. A fingerprint reader captures the curves and indentations of a fingerprint. Fingerprint readers can be set up to perform different functions for different fingers. For example‚ the index finger could start a program‚ and the ring
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World War II The book that I chose to read was The Rape of Nanking: The Forgotten Holocaust of World War II by Iris Chang. This book describes the mass murder and large scale depravity by the Japanese army during World War II in China. The Rape of Nanking describes the events that occurred before‚ during and after the invasion and desecration of the Chinese people and their city. Iris Chang was born in Princeton‚ New Jersey on March 28‚ 1968. The Chang family then moved to Champagne-Urbana‚ Illinois
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identification. When compared to a password‚ this type of system is much more difficult to fake since it is unique to the person. Below is a listing of all known biometric devices. Other common methods of a biometrics scan are a person’s face‚ hand‚ iris‚ and retina. Types of biometric devices Face scanner - Biometric face scanners identify a person by taking measurements of a person face. For example‚ the distance between the persons chin‚ eyes‚ nose‚ and mouth. These types of scanners can be
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technology today. Body Paragraph 2 A. Main Idea: The original use of Biometric Technology was for prisoners‚ police took a sample of their fingerprints to have their identity but their are plenty of other ways to have identification such as iris scans‚ facial scans‚ and others. 1.The New York state prison system began to use fingerprints for the identification of criminals in 1903 (Fingerprint Identification). 2. Hand Geometry measures users hands and fingers using a three dimensional
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Advances in Physical Security Terry L. Boss SEC- 581 Legal & Ethic Issues in Security Management April 13‚ 2014 Professor Elliott DeVry University I. Objective Statement A. Security today B. Security of Tomorrow II. Electronic detection systems A. Inferred lasers B. Night Vision Cameras C. Eye scanners D. Palm Scanners E. Finger Print Scanners F. Security Code Devices III. Barriers A. Plastic B.
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where randomness plays a role. 1.1 Biometry: iris recognition Biometry is the art of identifying a person on the basis of his or her personal biological characteristics‚ such as fingerprints or voice. From recent research it appears that with the human iris one can beat all existing automatic human identification systems. Iris recognition technology is based on the visible qualities of the iris. It converts these—via a video camera—into an “iris code” consisting of just 2048 bits. This is done
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at anytime without anyone knowing about it. Also the government can listen in to your phone calls at anytime they feel it necessary. New technology in surveillance is being discovered every day‚ the newest thing that looks to be most promising is iris scanning. This new technology allows to scan
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