Impact of Microsoft on India as a result of Globalization. Globalization is the international integration coming up from the interchanging of worldviews‚ products‚ ideas and other aspects of culture. An example of this‚ when India’s largest foreign company invested into India‚ Microsoft India Private Limited which is a subsidiary of US software giant Microsoft Corporation. There are several benefits and disadvantages of Microsoft coming into India. The benefits are global learning‚ rapid industrialization
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According to the Levin Institute (2001)‚ the term globalization refers to the increasing connections people‚ companies and states are forming around the world. The process of forming social and economic ties across vast distances is nothing new historically; however‚ technological improvements and liberal trade agreements have increased these connections greatly in contemporary times. One of the primary drivers of globalization has been in respect to market forces‚ whereby many consumer goods and
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EXECUTIVE SUMMARY: Globalization is the process of international integration arising from the interchange of world views‚ products‚ ideas‚ and other aspects of culture. Put in simple terms‚ globalization refers to processes that promote world-wide exchanges of national and cultural resources. Advances in transportation and telecommunications infrastructure‚ including the rise of the Internet‚ are major factors in globalization‚ generating further interdependence of economic
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Globalization can be conceived as a process (or set of processes) which embodies a transformation in the spatial organization of social relations and transactions‚ expressed in transcontinental or interregional flows and networks of activity‚ interaction and power (see Held and McGrew‚ et al‚ 1999). It is characterized by four types of change. First‚ it involves a stretching of social‚ political and economic activities across frontiers‚ regions and continents. Second‚ it is marked by the intensification
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The Development of Business in the Soccer World 100 years ago‚ was when the official soccer association establishment‚ which was FIFA. Soccer has grown to one of the most popular sports in the world and also has entitle of the “World’s Sport.” Though soccer is not popular in the United States‚ the rest of the world considers soccer their number one sport. One of the key products of itssuccess is because of the World Cup. Every 4 years countries with national teams compete to qualify in this noble
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Cornelia Nistor‚ Positive and negative effects of globalization / Annals of University of Bucharest‚ Economic and Administrative Series‚ Nr. 1 (2007) 152-163 Positive and negative effects of globalization Assoc. Prof. PhD Cornelia Nistor Faculty of Administration and Business University of Bucharest Abstract Although globalization cannot ensure worldwide stability and economical equilibrium‚ or full environmental protection‚ its positive effects mainly regarding the trading development and the access
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Development Gap in the world Development gap is the gulf between rich and poor nations when measured using economic yardsticks‚ such as GDP/GNP per capita. The development gap in the world is stunningly wide and has been worsening over the years. * The bottom 20% of the world’s GDP constitutes to only 1% of the world’s total GDP‚ whereas the top 20% constitutes 86%. (End of 1990s) The development gap in the world can be illustrated using the North-South divide. The North–South divide is broadly
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The Development of Individuality in the Modern World: Burckhardt’s View on the Renaissance in Italy Individuality and Cultural History In Reflections on History Jacob Burckhardt describes that “culture may be defined as the sum total of those mental developments which take place spontaneously and lay no claim to universal or compulsive authority” (55) and claims that culture is developed as a process of human mental activities‚ "The spearhead of all Culture is a miracle of mind – speech
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Impacts on Cognitive development Despite all the positive impacts of screen technology‚ it lowers the cognitive development by causing loss of concentration‚ decrease in attentions spans‚ poor personal communication skills‚ and inability to think abstractly (Greenfield 2013). Some kids are being overexposed to the screen technology; they don’t do anything else apart from playing computer games or watching TV. Eventually‚ these children develop attention problems. Being attentive is vital it helps
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WORLD WIDE WEB AND BUSINESS COMMUNITY The World Wide Web (abbreviated as WWW or W3‚ commonly known as the Web)‚ is a system of interlinked hypertext documents accessed via the Internet. With a web browser‚ one can view web pages that may contain text‚ images‚ videos‚ and other multimedia‚ and navigate between them via hyperlinks. Using concepts from his earlier hypertext systems like ENQUIRE‚ British engineer‚ computer scientist and at that time employee of CERN‚ Sir Tim Berners-Lee‚ now Director
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