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    Microsoft Corporation is an American multinational corporation headquartered in Redmond‚ Washington‚ that develops‚ manufactures‚ licenses‚ supports and sells computer software‚ consumer electronics and personal computers and services. Its best known software products are the Microsoft Windows line of operating systems‚ Microsoft Office office-suite and Internet Explorer web browser. Microsoft was founded by Bill Gates and Paul Allen on April 4‚ 1975. Microsoft is the world’s largest software maker

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    NOKIA AND MICROSOFT JOIN FORCES IN SMARTPHONE WAR On the 11th of February 2011‚ Nokia Corporation announced the alliance with Microsoft Corporation‚ unveiling their aggressive strategy to challenge Google and Apple for domination of the hot smartphone market. In this strategic alliance‚ Nokia will use Microsoft’s mobile operating system (OP) Windows Phone on its smartphones. As per the deal‚ Windows Phone would replace Symbian as the primary OS on Nokia’s phones and Nokia would pay royalties to

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    Disadvantages of Monopoly

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    Disadvantages of Monopoly: • Higher prices and lower output Monopolies often mean that prices will be higher and output lower than is the case for an industry where competition prevails. Firms in one industry are producing under conditions of perfect competition‚ while the other firm is operating under conditions of monopoly. The costs of production are the same for each industry. • Excess profits High profits made by the monopolist are not necessarily an indication of efficient methods

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    Strategic Information Systems to keep Microsoft ahead in the gameDecisions are classified into structured (repetitive) and unstructured (not routine). Thisinformation will allow the organisation to develop the best strategy to achieving orfulfilling its mission. Most scholars in strategic management are familiar with thedistinction between "content" research which deals with the content of strategies and"process" research which examines the strategic decision process and the factors thataffect it

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    begins amortizing software costs at the beginning of the following year. Estimate the effect of capitalizing software costs on Microsoft’s fiscal 1997‚ 1998‚ and 1999 income statements and balance sheets. [pic] b. Why do you think Microsoft chose to expense all software costs as incurred rather than capitalizing a portion of these costs? Remember that the FASB provides explicit guidelines for the treatment of software development costs that required capitalization once technological

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    Natural Monopoly

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    ON MONOPOLY: SOURCES AND EXAMPLES CONTENTS 1) AREA OF STUDY 2) METHOD OF STUDY 3) MAJOR REASONS OF MONOPOLIES 4) OWNERSHIP OF KEY RESOURCE : DE BEERS EXAMPLE 5) GOVT. OWNED STRATEGIC RESOURCES: CIL EXAMPLE 6) PATENTS IN DRUG INDUSTRY 7) NATURAL MONOPOLY: INDIAN RAILWAYS EXAMPLE 8) CONCLUSION 9) REFERENCES Area of study: This

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    1. Introduction The Microsoft case describes how the company was build and gives an insight in their Human Resource policies‚ from the early 1980 until the 2001. Bill Gates believed that in order to develop outstanding software‚ attracting the right people was crucial. The focus of their HR policy was to attract intelligent technical people. These technical people were the foundation of Microsoft’s great success. However (senior) management functions were also given to these technical employees

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    Monopoly of Intel

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    Project Report MONOPOLY INTEL CORPORATION SUBMITTED BY: ANKIT MITTAL GSMS BATCH 2010-2012 MONOPOLY What is Monopoly? The term monopoly means an absolute power of a firm to produce and sell a product that has no close substitute. In other words‚ a monopolized market is one in which there is only one seller of a product having no close substitute. The cross elasticity of demand for a monopoly product is either zero or negative. In other words‚ a monopolized industry is a single – firm industry

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    Oligopoly and Monopoly

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    Oligopoly An oligopoly is an intermediate market structure between the extremes of perfect competition and monopoly. Oligopoly firms might compete (noncooperative oligopoly) or cooperate (cooperative oligopoly) in the marketplace. Whereas firms in an oligopoly are price makers‚ their control over the price is determined by the level of coordination among them. The distinguishing characteristic of an oligopoly is that there are a few mutually interdependent firms that produce either identical products

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    Microsoft is an American multinational technology company‚ which is stationed in Redmond‚ Washington. The company develops and also licenses and manufactures computer software‚ electronics‚ and personal computers. Founded forty-one years ago and becoming one of the biggest electronic companies on the planet‚ Microsoft has become well established. The company has had bumps in their forty-one years of operations‚ though. The United States v. Microsoft antitrust case was initiated on May18‚1998 by the

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