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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industry is very much influenced by the rapid and dramatic changes taking place in the environment. All around the world‚ aircraft carriers are facing increases in fuel prices and are vulnerable to expensive disruptions like the 2010 volcanic eruption in Iceland. (paragraph 1‚p.11) Trade unions‚ who drive up costs‚ and regulators are legal factors which prevent aircraft companies from implementing their own ways of cutting costs. (paragraph 6‚p12) Ryanair‚ the largest low-cost carrier in Europe‚ is
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INTRODUCTION TO CAPITAL BUDGETING Overview 159 7.1 The NPV Rule for Judging Investments and Projects 159 7.2 The IRR Rule for Judging Investments 161 7.3 NPV or IRR‚ Which to Use? 162 7.4 The “Yes–No” Criterion: When Do IRR and NPV Give the Same Answer? 163 7.5 Do NPV and IRR Produce the Same Project Rankings? 164 7.6 Capital Budgeting Principle: Ignore Sunk Costs and Consider Only Marginal Cash Flows 168 7.7 Capital Budgeting Principle: Don’t Forget the Effects of Taxes—Sally and Dave’s
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Future Life 1 Future Life My Life in the Future by Ornnicha Apibantanakij US Culture Professor Russell Clark 1 August 2014 Future Life 2 Future Life My Life in the Future Time flies. It seems to me that only yesterday when I graduated my university. Life has been changing so rapidly since the time I was born‚ that it is probably impossible to give an accurate picture of the next century. However‚ it is interesting for me to try and
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be endorsed with a ‘Late Submission’ seal. If you are unable to handover your assignment on time‚ and have valid reasons such as illness‚ you are required to fill ‘Late Submission Form’ and may apply in writing for an extension. Non submission of work without valid reasons will lead to
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Discuss with your partner and write down the characteristics of boys and girls. (consider physical appearance‚ hobbies and personality traits) 3 Minutes to discuss – 2 minutes feeding back to the class GIRLS BOYS Gender Stereotypes Definition of gender stereotypes: “A widely held but fixed and oversimplified image or idea of a particular type of person or thing.” For example‚ the stereotype of the woman as the carer. Gender Stereotypes - Billy Elliot • Scene 1 http://www.youtube.com/watch
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1. History of Microsoft: -Founded in 1975 by Bill Gates (CEO) and Paul Allen -Industry: Computer software and hardware -Revenue: $77.85 billion (2013) -Employees: 100‚932 worldwide 2. Why Microsoft? Microsoft is one of the world’s leading brands in computer technology‚ and so it is of interest to discover how they motivate and encourage their employees to achieve such great success. Microsoft is currently ranked second on the list of best companies to work for in the UAE‚ but why is this so
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Department B-403 Date: November 17‚ 2014 Subject: PowerPoint Warm-Up Exercise The purpose of this assignment is to begin the process of looking at PowerPoint as a multimedia tool for business professionals. We are going to examine how we look at presentations in a large room environment instead of “fingers to elbows”. This presentation is not about a particular topic‚ or theme. It is about skills. It is expected that ALL PowerPoint assignments this semester will be submitted with multimedia
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Case Analysis 1) Who should Microsoft have targeted at the launch of the Tablet PC & why? Before discussing who Microsoft should have targeted‚ we have to look at the strengths and weaknesses of the product. The success of any strategy depends on being able leverage the most of the strengths and rely less on the weaknesses. The strengths of Microsoft were its brand‚ distribution channel‚ existing enterprise user base and large resources. The risks involved those related to new product development
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Nokia Microsoft alliance LONDON – Feb. 11‚ 2011 – Nokia and Microsoft today announced plans to form a broad strategic partnership that would use their complementary strengths and expertise to create a new global mobile ecosystem. Nokia and Microsoft intend to jointly create market-leading mobile products and services designed to offer consumers‚ operators and developers unrivalled choice and opportunity. As each company would focus on its core competencies‚ the partnership would create the opportunity
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