true because casinos actually helped to regenerate places with unemployment‚ such as Atlantic City in New Jersey. According to American Gaming Association “In 2002‚ the commercial casino industry provided more than 350000 jobs in the United States‚ with wages and benefits totaling $ 11 billion. An estimated 400000 additional jobs are supported by casino industry spending”. In one year that is a lot of employment. And the paychecks aren’t that low. That is more than an elementary school teacher income
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Background of Company Microsoft Corporation‚ incorporated in 1981‚ is engaged in developing‚ licensing and supporting a range of software products and services. The Company also designs and sells hardware‚ and delivers online advertising to the customers. The Company operates in eight segments: Windows & Windows Live Division (Windows Division)‚ Server and Tools Business‚ Online Services Division (OSD)‚ Microsoft Business Solutions‚ Microsoft Office Division‚ Microsoft Phone Division‚ Skype and
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Initiative Microsoft was cofounded on April 4‚ 1975‚ by childhood friends‚ Paul Allen and Bill Gates. Bill Gates served as the first CEO due to the 60/40 partnership he had with Paul Allen. The first Japanese office‚ ASCII Microsoft‚ opened in August 1977. Microsoft became incorporated in Washington thus becoming Microsoft Inc. in 1981. Microsoft’s many products include Microsoft’s Operating Systems‚ Microsoft Mouse‚ Windows‚ Microsoft Office‚ Internet Explorer‚ and the Xbox gaming system. In 1986
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Google and Microsoft are two very competitive companies in the world of computers and technology. Over time Microsoft has formed their business to help create‚ build‚ and integrate computer technology and the internet. Google is one of the most successful dotcom era companies that have survived and grown because of their ability to adapt and influence change. Initially‚ Google and Microsoft were not competitors. Google’s initial business capitalized on the internet access that Microsoft software
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• How Microsoft got best benefits from the acquisition • To analyze data support of acquisition • Make your own critical conslusions KEY FACTS AND FIGURES 10th May 2011: Microsoft acquirers Skype at a price of $8.5 billion (cash) Financial multiples (Skype 2010): other companies Very high relative to Enterprise value/EBITDA: > 32x sector! Skype is growing rapidly (from 2009 to 2010): • User base: 40% • Calling minutes: 150% (18 months) • Revenue: 20% • EBITDA (adj.): 40% within the IT
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Introduction Rivalry between Apple and Microsoft has existed for a long time. While Microsoft dominates the market by providing an operating system to nine tenths of the number of users (Net Applications‚ 2011)‚ Apple ’s products bring an alternative to the consumers ’ experience. Moreover‚ given Apple ’s steady growth in the last years (Yahoo Finance‚ 2011) the competition is still ongoing and fierce‚ as some PC users (sustained mostly by Microsoft) are switching to a Mac (offered by Apple)
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The facts of the case 18 States and the Justice Department brought suit against Microsoft to "eliminate Microsoft’s unlawful practices‚ to avoid recurrence of similar practices and to restore the competitive threat that middleware products posed prior to Microsoft’s unlawful conduct. The procedural history of the case Microsoft grew the government’s attention in 1991‚ because word was that it was abusing its monopoly in the PC operating system market. The government had the FTC conduct an inquiry
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A lot of people today‚ mostly microsofties‚ argue that Microsoft should not be split up since it isn ’t really a monopoly; Windows has a lot of competitors out there and some of the companies that make them are even bigger than Microsoft. And that is actually quite true: Microsoft has only about 6% of the global software market and only 3% of the global computer market overall. There are several computer companies that make more than Microsoft‚ like Sun Microsystems and Compaq and there are at least
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The Strategic Position Chapter 3: Strategic Capabilities Gokhan Turgut Johnson‚ Whittington and Scholes‚ Exploring Strategy‚ 9th Edition‚ © Pearson Education Limited 2011 Slide 3.2 Strategic capabilities: the key issues Figure 3.1 Strategic capabilities: the key issues Johnson‚ Whittington and Scholes‚ Exploring Strategy‚ 9th Edition‚ © Pearson Education Limited 2011 Slide 3.3 Resources and competences • Resources are the assets that organisations have or can call upon (e
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