Abstract The production of copycat phones manufactured in China has a massive impact on the sales of major smartphone players. This paper will evaluate whether products have intellectual property (IP) rights to protect their designs in China in comparison to Australia. There are IP rights to protect designs in China – the patent law for outward design. However‚ even with the existence of IP laws‚ applicants are not fully protected because of: the weak IP law enforcement; the corruption that exists
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Ratio analysis provides an indication of a company’s liquidity‚ gearing and solvency. But ratios do not provide answers; they are merely a guide for management and others to the areas of a company’s weaknesses and strengths (Palat 1999). However‚ ratio analysis is difficult and there are many limitations. This section will identify and discuss the inadequacies of accounting ratios as tools of financial analysis. ACCOUNTING POLICIES. It is difficult to use ratios to compare companies‚ because they
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Smartphones in China Taking a bite out of Apple Xiaomi‚ often described as China’s answer to Apple‚ is actually quite different Sep 14th 2013 | BEIJING | From the print edition IT FEELS more like a rock concert than a press conference as the casually dressed chief executive takes to a darkened stage to unveil his firm’s sleek new smartphone to an adoring crowd. Yet this was not the launch of the new iPhone by Apple on September 10th‚ but of the Mi-3 handset by Xiaomi‚ a Chinese firm
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FINANCIAL RATIO ANALYSIS: PAKISTAN STATE OIL Introduction: Financial ratios for PSO for last 3 years are provided below. The company represents current market share of 78.2% in the black oil market and 54.3% share in the white oil market with net sales of Rs1.02 billion in 2012‚ Rs820 million billion in 2011 and Rs742 million in 2010. Ratio Analysis: PAKISTAN STATE OIL | |2012 |2011 |2010
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Smartphones were once the most popular innovation in the world‚ and by now‚ the majority of people in the United States has a smartphone. A few years ago‚ Apple invented a tablet called iPad which was overwhelmingly popular in the market. With the success of Apple‚ other companies also wanted a share of the tablet market. They started designing their own tablets and sold them at much lower prices to increase their competitiveness in the market. Apple’s tablet underwent major changes‚ from iPad to
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students end up learning a lot from the activity and actually like doing it at the same time. There is also a term for it called “BYOT” (Bring Your Own Technology). This is also a great idea because a recent survey says that over 80% of kids have Smartphone be 8th grade. So there is no problem of anybody not having a phone. So the use of smart phones in class should be permitted because they increase student activity in class and also increase student attention span. The students of today are in
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Ratio analysis Debt ratio Debt ratio (2006-2007) = Total liabilities / Total assets = 10‚170/12‚064 = 0.84 Debt ratio (2007-2008) = 9‚210/11‚769 = Debt ratio (2008-2009) = 10‚003/11‚229 = Debt ratio (2009-2010) = 11‚043/12‚537 = Current ratio Current ratio (2006-2007) = Current assets / Current liabilities = 3‚424/4‚790 = 0.71 Current ratio (2007-2008) = 2‚164/4‚498 = Current ratio (2008-2009) = 1‚326/5‚389 = Current ratio (2009-2010) = 2‚697/6‚085 = Return on sales (ROS) Return on Sales
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Analysis of the competitive process that takes place within ‘Smartphone market’ Table of Contents Executive Summary 3 Introduction 3 Detailed Discussion 4 Market Share 4 The nature of the product 5 Composition of the market‚ demand growth‚ and elasticity 5 Economies of scale and technology 6 Market structure 6 Market dimensions 7 The principal dimensions of competition and business rivalry 7 Other Generic strategies applied by firms in this market
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Benefits and Advantages of Smartphones Today‚ you don’t literally have to carry your laptop or sit the entire day facing your desktop computer to perform all the tasks that you need to do. You need not have a wired telephone to do international calls either. With the constant technological innovations‚ almost everything is made possible with the use of a single‚ handy smart phone. But do you have even the slightest idea why these are called smart-phones? What makes smartphones smart? And what can one
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Anderson‚ M. S. (N/A). The Advantages of the Smart Phone. In eHow. Retrieved January 17‚ 2012‚ from http://www.ehow.com/list_6880854_advantages-smart-phone.html Jones‚ O. W. (N/A). The Advantages of Smartphones. In Tech Tips. Retrieved January 17‚ 2012‚ from http://techtips.salon.com/advantages-smartphones-3480.html
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