acquisition of Skype • Understanding Skype’s and Microsoft’s business models and their product portfolio respectively • Microsoft’s reasoning behind the acquisition • 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
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Introduction Amazon.com (“Amazon”) is one of the most globally recognized online e-commerce retailers‚ offering the world’s biggest variety of goods and services – all while not operating a single physical retail sales location. Yahoo! Finance provides one of the most precise and concise descriptions concerning the business and product variety of Amazon.com: “Amazon.com‚ Inc. operates as an online retailer in North America and internationally. The company operates various retail Web sites‚ including
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Question 1 Introduction Market segmentation is a market orientated approach of identifying and satisfying the diverse needs of consumers. The total market is divided into similar segments of people who have similar needs‚ it can be referred to as an approach that subdivides a market along some commonalities or kingship (i.e.) the members of a market segment share something in common. Because Spar falls under the South African food market‚ their approach would be to satisfy the Segmentation
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Augmented reality From Wikipedia‚ the free encyclopedia Jump to: navigation‚ search WikitudeWorld Browseron the iPhone 3GSuses GPSand a solid state compass SamsungSARI AR SDK markerless tracker used in the AR EdiBeargame (AndroidOS) AR Tower Defensegame on the Nokia N95smartphone (SymbianOS) uses fiduciary markers Augmented reality(AR) is a live‚ direct or indirect‚ view of a physical‚ real-world environment whose elements are augmented(or supplemented) by
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Microsoft Recruiting Strategy Recruiting Creative thinking over experience Microsoft has the policy of only recruiting the best and the brightest for their company. Over the years they have dvelopped a system of hiring people fresh from college. They mostly target top universities from the united states‚ Europe and some in japan. It is true that those who just graduated lacked work experience but COO steve ballmer explained that Microsoft preferred creative thinking and ambition over experience
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Like most large corporations Microsoft has a human resources department that has a large impact on the overall operation of the company. Microsoft’s HR‚ like most has implemented practices that are critical to the company’s success‚ and others that prevent the company from reaching even greater heights. An HR practice which always has been crucial to Microsoft is its recruitment style. Microsoft is only interested in the best‚ to the point where they prefer to leave a position vacant
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Microsoft Project is a wonderful project management software‚ which offers a vast array of benefits and capabilities for someone managing a project‚ large or small. The key to maximizing the using any software program is to ensure training is provided on its uses. There are a number of capabilities within a software program like Microsoft Project. One of them is that it provides tools to calculate the budget and control costs. It has the ability to calculate standard hours‚ overtime hours
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The Ultimate Battle: PC versus Mac Throughout the past quarter century there has always been a huge argument between nerds and geeks all around the world: which is better‚ a PC or a Mac? If you want to get two nerds arguing in front of you that would be the question to ask. I will be discussing what I believe to be the key points in each system where one may outshine the other or where they may be equal‚ to determine which should be the best choice for the general‚ everyday consumer.My personal
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Differences between tablet computers and netbook computers We cannot deny the fact that nowadays computers play a great role in our lives. For a century computers have developed. They have become bigger in term of performances and smaller in sizes and prices. If we look back about a hundred years ago‚ we would see that computers were gigantic and could do only some calculations. But now‚ computers cannot do only calculations but can also be a movie theatre‚ your favorite singer or even your friends
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its fourth consecutive year of double digit expansion in 2006‚ recording 10 percent unit growth. 2. PC shipments in the Asia-Pacific region expanded by an estimated 17.6 percent in 2006 on a unit basis. 3. IDC’s “rest of the world” category‚ which includes Eastern Europe‚ Latin America‚ and the Middle East rose 22 percent on a preliminary basis. 4. It is estimated that the PC industry will post total unit growth of approximately 11 percent for 2007. 5. Dell’s units sold declined
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