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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HOW SMART ARE SMART PHONES Ladies and gentlemen did you know nearly 20% of kids can operate a smart phone by the time they reach the age of 6‚ while only 9% can actually tie their shoelaces properly so says Nicholas Jackson of AVG. 58% of children polled can play basic computer games and not even yet ride a bicycle. Technology has stolen our child hood. Instead of having to protect us from the snakes in the grass and trees where we should be playing‚ our parents have to protect us from cyber bullying
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Running head: THE IMPACT OF SMART CARDS The Impact of Smart Cards Money and Banking I – BU322 March 17‚ 2010 The Impact of Smart Cards The Digital Age has changed the way we do business and one of them is a technological innovation called the Smart Card. Though users tout its advantages the concept has been slow to take off in the United States possibly due to the disadvantages that continue to plague the concept. However with the continued direction of business and banking in this
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Smart technologies for older people a systematic literature review of smart technologies that promote health and wellbeing of older people living at home www.broadband.unimelb.edu.au May 2012 Authors Meg Morris‚ PhD Chair Physiotherapy‚ The University of Melbourne Elizabeth Ozanne‚ PhD Associate Professor‚ Social Work‚ The University of Melbourne Kim Miller‚ PhD Senior Lecturer Physiotherapy‚ The University of Melbourne Nick Santamaria‚ PhD Chair Translational Nursing‚ The University of
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From Wikipedia‚ the free encyclopedia The first version of Microsoft Word was developed by Charles Simonyi and Richard Brodie‚ former Xerox programmers hired by Bill Gates and Paul Allen in 1981. Both programmers worked on Xerox Bravo‚ the first Microsoft WYSIWYGword processor. The first Word version‚ Word 1.0‚ was released in October 1983 for Xenix and MS-DOS; it was followed by four very similar versions that were not very successful. The first Windows version was released in 1989‚ with a slightly
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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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CASE STUDY 1: What’s the Buzz on Smart Grids? 1. How do smart grids differ from the current electricity infrastructure in the United States? Current electricity grids do not provide any information about how consumers actually use energy. That makes it difficult to develop more efficient approaches to distribution. The current system offers few ways to handle power provided by alternative energy sources. Without useful information‚ energy companies and consumers have difficulty making good
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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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A somewhat topsy-turvy presentation is evident throughout this play: Dogberry and the Watch are very much the “third string” to this play’s bow‚ and yet have captured the greatest place in public imagination. Likewise‚ on the romantic front‚ we may say that it is the second-bow players who have the next most prominent place in people’s minds; for even though the play is essentially about the love affair between Claudio and Hero (the first string to the bow)‚ many play-goers come away with a clearer
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The Disadvantage of the Smart Phones Good morning to all my friends and the teachers. Today‚ I would like to speak about the disadvantage of the smart phones. Nowadays‚ most of Malaysians have smart phones. This gadget has many advantages and disadvantage to us. Talking about disadvantages‚ there are lot of negative aspects of using mobile phones. Firstly‚ using cell phones too much will probably be harmful for human’s health as it can increase the risk of brain cancer. Lacking of face-to-face
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