As Facebook expands‚ with 250 million users posting 1 billion pieces of content every week‚ the site continues to draw sharp criticism from privacy advocates‚ lawyers‚ and governments over how it uses the data that members regularly – and often cavalierly – post onto the site. This week five California Facebook users joined the chorus of critics. In a lawsuit filed Monday‚ they charge that Facebook – the Web’s dominant social networking ecosystem – unlawfully used their private information or
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Personal Strengths and Weaknesses Throughout my life‚ my strengths and weaknesses tend to gain more clarity‚ as I grew older. When I was younger‚ I did not focus too much on this part of myself. I must now use my strengths to improve my habits and my weaknesses to strengthen my faults. Several of my strengths are centered on my profession because the majority of my time is spent there. Some of my qualities are beneficial to different situations‚ while the other qualities hinder. Although we describe
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Case Study Report McDonald ’s BACKGROUND: Brothers Richard and Maurice McDonald founders of McDonald ’s Corporation grew from a single drive-in restaurant in San Bernardino‚ California in 1948 to the largest food service organization in the world. In 1955 Ray Kroc opened firs McDonald ’s in Des Plaines‚ Illinois and became exclusive franchising agent for the company. By 1991 McDonald ’s owned $13 billion of fast-food industry‚ operating 12‚400 restaurants in 59 countries (Ezine). The company
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The 39 Clues is a series of adventure books‚ combining reading‚ online gaming‚ and card collecting. Published by Scholastic‚ the main part of the series consists of ten books about the adventures of siblings Amy and Dan Cahill trying to thwart the other Cahills to get the clues‚ which will make them "the most powerful and influential person(s) on the planet". Amy and Dan agree to the challenge in their grandmother Grace Cahill’s will and search for 39 Clues scattered around the world. Continuing
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ASSESSING THE QUALITY OF E-COURSES Jeanne Schreurs ‚Universiteit Hasselt‚ Belgium ‚Rachel Moreau‚ Universiteit Hasselt‚ Belgium Abstract The EFQM model of quality management is a universal model and is applied in this paper in the school context for the organisation of e-courses. We identified some quality criteria in this EFQM school quality model. We defined a simplified e-learning EFQM model supporting the evaluation by the learner. Based on it a questionnaire has been structured that can
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McDonald’s India was incorporated as a wholly owned subsidiary – McDonalds India Pvt Ltd (MIPL) in 1993. In April 1995‚ the wholly owned subsidiary entered into two 50:50 joint ventures. The first with Connaught Plaza Restaurants (Mr Vikram Bakshi) to own and operate the Delhi restaurants‚ and Hardcastle Restaurants (Mr Amit Jatia) to own and operate the Mumbai outlets. This marked the beginning of an incredible era in the international McDonalds timeline. It was the beginning of remarkable growth‚ lengthy
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McDonald’s: Polishing the Golden Arches Generic & Functional Strategies Overall‚ McDonald’s tries to operate on a cost leadership basis by offering low-priced goods with higher profit margins. Most of the functional strategies adopted by McDonald’s correlate with this strategy of low cost. McDonald’s management strategy involves a primarily decentralized delegation of authority. The CEO is responsible for making all the large company decisions and designing the processes
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Analysis S No. Name Ratio (%) Strength/ Weakness 1 Net profit margin 18.34 Strength 2 Operating profit margin 27.39 Strength 3 Return on equity 32.23 % Strength 4 Return on assets 15.15 % Strength 5 Total revenue in Europe 3.23 % Weakness 6 Total operating income (Europe) 66.07% weakness 7 Total assets (Europe) -3.16% Weakness 8 Total Expenditures (Europe) 9.71% Weakness 9 Sale growth 6.14% Strength 10 Dividend growth per share 28.8% Strength 11 Total asset s 0.82%
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What the 39 Clues books are all about and The Changes to the Cover Ever since Grace Cahill died and her Last Will and Testament was read‚ Amy and Dan Cahill (the main characters in all 10 novels) were chased from one continent to another‚ by their own family (uncles‚ aunts‚ and cousins). Grace Cahill gave all the chosen Cahills (they were chosen because of the branches each team belonged to) to join the race for the 39 clues and become the most powerful person (or people) in the world OR walk away
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310973 Contact Details: Contact Person Address Telephone No. Fax No. Email Mr. Tan Hwa Seong 3 Jalan Datuk Sulaiman 2‚ TTDI‚ 6000 Kuala Lumpur Malaysia +60 122862816 +60 377107300 roysten.tan@gmail.com STRATEGIC BUSINESS ANALYSIS MCDONALD ’S CASE STUDY Table of Contents EXECUTIVE OVERVIEW............................................................................................. I-4 TASK I. 2003 SWOT ANALYSIS......................................................................
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