...Google Plus vs. Facebook, Who’s Winning? By Griffyn Carpenter Not too long ago we all became aware of the new social media craze that had everybody buzzing. It was told to us to be better than Facebook, and a ton better than twitter so of course we all had to check it out. I mean if it is better than Facebook come on whom would not look at it right? In 3 months Google plus has managed to gross over 25 million users which makes it the fastest growing social media platform so far that we have seen. They each have their own pros and cons but it basically comes down to what you prefer the most. One aspect of Google plus that I found very cool was that you can have circles of friends and you can place people in the circles that you wish. I have labeled one circle strictly for “family” another strictly for “friends” and lastly one strictly for “basketball and golf”. You can also choose whose statuses you choose to read, if you are tired about hearing about the annual family cookout on Google plus you can switch from your “family” circle to your “friends” circle and see what they are doing at the moment. I thought that the circles aspect of Google plus was something awesome and something I think will eventually draw tons of users in. Another pro about Google plus is you can limit the people who see your statuses. For example if you don’t want your parents to see the stunts you tried to pull last night, you can restrict your statuses to people who are strictly in friends circles...
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...Project Group: LE THI THU HIEN LE THI NGOC YEN TRUONG TU QUYNH NGUYEN HONG CAM BINH Summer 2012 An overview Facebook was realized on February 4, 2004 by an American computer programmer and Internet entrepreneur- Mark Elliot Zuckerberg. Facebook has said it will be valued at up to $96bn (£59bn) when it sells shares to investors this month in a record-breaking flotation. The first investment from Peter Thiel was $500,000 into Facebook. Facebook has minted four billionaires: Mark Zuckerberg, Dustin Moskovitz, Eduardo Saverin and Sean Parker. The 27-year-old Zuckerberg's net worth was estimated at $17.5bn on the 2011 Forbes list of the wealthiest Americans. Moskovitz had a net worth of $3.5bn but pipped Zuckerberg for the title of world's youngest billionaire, being eight days younger. The Brazilian-born Saverin, who left Facebook early on after a falling-out with Zuckerberg, had a net worth of $2bn. Parker, the Napster co-founder who briefly served as Facebook's president, had a net worth of $2.1bn On November 15, 2010, Facebook announced it had acquired the domain name fb.com from the American Farm Bureau Federation for an undisclosed amount. On January 11, 2011, the Farm Bureau disclosed $8.5 million in "domain sales income", making the acquisition of FB.com one of the ten highest domain sales in history Nowadays, 1 in every 13 people on earth uses Facebook, more than 900m active users, with over 250 million of them who log in every day. The average user has about 130 friends...
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...Lesson 1 Case Study Vally Rumao BUS 590: Business Strategy Professor Giang Biscan September 9 , 2015 CASE 1: Facebook vs. Twitter: The Coming Facebook-Twitter Collision CASE ABSTRACT Facebook, the popular social media site, has 150 million users. Most people who follow Facebook believe that it competes with MySpace for the youth market and with LinkedIn for the adult market. The writer of this article argues that while all three – Facebook, MySpace, and LinkedIn – aim to connect people, Facebook’s real competition is the microblogging site, Twitter. Both Twitter, with its 6 million users, and Facebook have some features in common and yet are different. They seem to be embarked on a collision course. KEY POINTS • The impact of a changing competitive environment on business strategy (Chapter 4: External Environment) • The importance of strategic leadership (Chapter 12: Leadership and Culture) RELATED CHAPTERS Chapter 1: Strategic Management, Chapter 2: Company Mission, Chapter 4: External Environment, Chapter 6: Internal Analysis, and Chapter 8: Business Strategy QUESTIONS FOR ANALYSIS 1. Why does the author feel that Facebook’s real competition is Twitter and not MySpace or LinkedIn? The Author feels that Facebook’s real competition is Twitter because both have a huge market share and in future Facebook and twitter will help Individual to network and grow their business. Compared to MySpace or LinkedIn, Twitter business model...
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...Facebook vs. Twitter The World Wide Web (www) was opened to the public on 1993, since then on, a new platform arises, the “Social Media”. As the internet users worldwide grew significantly, so is the need of the people to get in touch, share and be connected. According to Nation, D (2014) “Social networking is based on a certain structure that allow people to both express their individuality and meet people with similar interests. This structure includes having profiles, friends, blog posts, widgets, and usually something unique to that particular social networking website.” It became a new lifestyle for the new generation. Facebook the most popular social networking site with more than 150 million users competes with Myspace that caters to the youth and Linkedln for the adult and professionals. The real competition for Facebook is the microblogging site, Twitter. Both Twitter, with its 6 million users and Facebook shares the same mission and some features in common yet on a different platform seems to be embarked on a collision course. The focus of this paper is to define how both of the organization adapts to a fast pace technological advancement, the similarities and differences of Facebook and Twitter and to understand how they employ strategies in decision making to cope with changes in technological and social factors. Validate the “how competitive forces shapes strategy”, according to Pearce and Robinson (2011, p.91). Facebook and the Competition ...
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...Alternative Solutions <start here and indent 5-7 spaces; then one inch margins all around; enter content> Selected Solution to the Problem <start here and indent 5-7 spaces; then one inch margins all around; enter content> Implementation <start here and indent 5-7 spaces; then one inch margins all around; enter content> Recommendations <start here and indent 5-7 spaces; then one inch margins all around; enter content> Conclusion <start here and indent 5-7 spaces; then one inch margins all around; enter content> REFERENCES APPENDIX Case 1 Facebook vs. Twitter: The Coming Facebook-Twitter Collision 1 Every time monthly Web traffic numbers are released, you can expect at least a half-dozen blogs to run a graph showing Facebook gaining on MySpace in some made-up social media war. And as more “adults” join Facebook, 1 the more likely you are to hear about Facebook...
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...Taking A Closer Look at Google Students today have a much more convenient and timesaving methods of research. Thanks to Internet Information Providers, you have all the libraries you need located on the World Wide Web. By typing in a question or a few key words in a search engine, you have hundreds of thousands of search results with all the answers you need. Engines like Google, Yahoo, and Bing are now enveloped into people’s everyday lives. Here are a few numbers to show us how important this industry has become (2010): * Google: 34,000 searches per second (2 million per minute; 121 million per hour; 3 billion per day; 88 billion per month) * Yahoo: 3,200 searches per second (194,000 per minute; 12 million per hour; 280 million per day; 8.4 billion per month) * Bing: 927 searches per second (56,000 per minute; 3 million per hour; 80 million per day; 2.4 billion per month) (Mcgee, 2010). According to Yahoo Finance, on June 17, 2011 the market capitalization of the industry is $558 billion, Price/Earnings is 22.4, Price/Book is 4.6, Net Profit Margin is 23.1%, Return on Equity is 17.5%, Total Debt/Equity is 26.3, and the dividend yield is 1.2% (Yahoo! Inc., 2011). One of the biggest leaders of this industry is Google Inc. Google Stands Strong In 1998, Google was launched with about 25 million pages. Today Google index is billions and billions of pages, which is roughly around 100 million gigabytes (Google, Inc, 2011). Google not only provides a top search...
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...Google vs. Facebook Organisational behaviour12/6/2012Durrell carter| GOOGLE VS FACEBOOK ORGANISATIONAL STRUCTURES In this assignment we will explore how Facebook and Google have different organisational structures and how this affects their businesses and staff members. Facebook and Google are both very large companies and have organizational structures which are similar and also different in the ways they structure their businesses. For example David Braginsky who worked for both Facebook and Google over the past five years wrote that "Google is really big. There are multiple teams doing the same thing and don't know about each other. There are teams that strongly believe that other teams should not exist. There are giant sections of Google that have been described as "non-Google" because of culture drift and acquisitions. When you go to the holiday party, you will not know 95% of the people there”. These groups at Google are informal work groups with set tasks working on a set activity to complete for the business with that task being there only goal until they are issued a new one. Also Google really big task groups offer a lots of different skill sets to the organization with the work being spread out and people carrying out lots of different tasks for the organization, performing them at a high level making the division of labour possible. However with Facebook David Braginsky also says that "Facebook is much smaller, and while you won't know everyone (or even...
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...experiences, knowledge, attitudes and expectations. Different motivational theories, but most - popular theory of Maslow's hierarchy of needs theory, known as the motivation of A. H. Maslow (1943). Through it he tries to explain why people at different times are driven by different needs, Maslow has human needs in hierarchical importance of the priorities. Alderfer shows the hierarchy of needs on three levels. According to this theory possible emergence of several needs simultaneously, and the process of going back. According to JK Galbraith structure of the modern corporation can be represented as concentric circles. Motivational theory in an organization can be extrapolated to the work of both organizations Google...
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...Facebook announced its $5 billion IPO late Wednesday afternoon. But what is all the hype about? What is an IPO, how does it work, and will a publicly traded Facebook affect how we use the social network on a daily basis? Here's a quick guide. WHAT EXACTLY IS AN IPO? When a privately owned company makes an Initial Public Offering, it means they're moving to be publicly traded on the stock market for the first time. That means that anyone can buy stock in the company and own a portion of it. Ads By Google Online Trading Plus500®: APPL, Ebay, HP Commodities, No Fees! www.Plus500.no Bilforsikring -Sjekk pris Nemi Bilforsikring testvinner i VG. Sjekk din pris på bilforsikring her neminordvest.no/bilforsikring UK Fixed Income Aberdeen Managed UK Fixed Income Assets. Learn More. Aberdeen-Asset.NO Going public can help a company raise significant capital if a lot of people want to buy its stock. It also means that the company has to publicly disclose details about its finances, like its earnings, that it previously kept private. WHO DECIDES THE VALUE OF AN IPO? An investment bank determines how much money the company can expect to make on the stock market based on a number of factors, from the health of the economy to how popular the company's product is expected to be in the future. The initial valuation is always a bit of a gamble, since the stock has never been traded publicly before, and analysts can't look at past behavior to figure out how it should be...
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...permanence. The individual elements of an organizational structure typically include a variety of components that one may usefully see as building blocks: departments or divisions; management hierarchy; rules, procedures, and goals; and more temporary building blocks such as task forces or committees” (Inc., n.d.). Social networking sites like Facebook have a strong organizational structure that is appropriate for their particular product, social media. These sites may seem so simple that they do not require structure to operate but you will learn that is not the case. Facebook launched in 2004 and is one of the most popular social networking sites. “Mark Zuckerberg is the CEO of Facebook. The rest of the management team is less famous. Sure, you've probably heard of COO Sheryl Sandberg. But do you know the difference between the jobs held by Facebook's top ad execs, Carolyn Everson, David Fisher and Gokul Rajaram?” (Edwards, 2012) A strong organizational structure has permitted Facebook to develop and stay strong in a competitive marketplace where the manufactured goods are your private life on display for the whole world to see. Facebook has a system where the user has friends who see their posts. These users can post on their friends timeline as well...
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...Google Green Project Many people only identify Google as a search and software giant, but there are so many other ventures that Google it taking part in. Green energy is something that Google has been investing in and piloting for quite a while now. Google has publicly acknowledged that investing in green is their environmental responsibility. They have also admitted that it is not just their moral obligation, but that it also makes sense business wise. By investing and piloting advances in renewable energy it increases its overall proficiency and decreases long-term cost. Google has invested in the research and development of a wide range of renewable energy initiatives to include: wind, solar, and geothermal. Not only does this look good from the community prospective, but it is a smart business choice as well. Currently, renewable energy makes up a small part of Google’s overall business plan, but as this develops and pays off, it will likely find a bigger place among the company. In 2007, Google installed the largest of its kind solar grid array at the Mountain View campus. This array produces 1.7MW and provides 30% of the campus’ power. Not only will this solar array pay for itself with 6 years, but it will continue to provide power for the foreseeable future. Furthermore, Google is entering into long-term contracts with green energy providers that will provide a fair portion of the power to its data centers worldwide. This started out as philanthropic in nature...
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...GOOGLE Target market-Segmentation Zeekanapui Bandaogo Davenport University BUSN520 Professor Thomas Steinhagen Contents Introduction/Overview…………………………………………………………………..3 Primary and Secondary Target Markets…………………………………………………3 Target Group….……………………………………………………………………...….4 Market Position…………………………………………………………………………..5 Conclusion….……………………………………………………………………………7 The Organizations or firm that best finds out market segments are those succeeding in the business market today. This is because market segments allows or provides the companies information’s on the ground about what their customers really want and Google is best at this. Google started as a startup and its now the leading internet search engine and now have introduced a lot of innovations like Ad words, Gmail, Google analytic and G1 phone to mentioned a few all this, to best serve its Primary and secondary target. So many companies do not know their target market but Google does. Google has one of the best market strategies to meet its primary and secondary targets. Google’s targets, are users of internet and online persons and businesses and specifically the youth. So I will say that Google’s main Target are the youth (G)and the secondary target are the elderly(O). Google has a lot of competitors like Yahoo, Facebook, the main one being Microsoft. Primary and Secondary Target Markets According to Curtis “a business primary targets are group of people most likely...
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...big improvement in Web 2.0 is the availability of interactions that was not available in Web 1.0. Users now can be in online communities and share information on the web. Facebook, Twitter, and YouTube are the examples that come to my mind since they are so interactive. All three are free applications that users can communicate and share information with others. Web 3.0 is still in its early stages but is based on the idea that the internet actually understands the information and can make logical connections between information. The web will actually be able to take information from 2.0 and 3.0 from individual users and be able to get content that is relative to the user. The goal is for users to feel like they have a personal assistant that knows everything about the user and can access any information the user will need in an instant. Since Web 3.0 is still in the beginning stages there aren’t many examples of it yet; however, I believe that Apple’s Siri is a very good example of the beginnings of Web 3.0. Apple’s products offer the “personal assistant” Siri that users can ask questions like the weather and traffic information and the device looks it up on the spot. Siri also “remembers” the users’ habits like work and home address, contacts, and favorite shops and restaurants. Another example is Google. Google is already making hands free researching available by just talking to the device. They have already...
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...VS SAML VS OAUTH Lazarus Mason IS431 Abstract SAML VS OAUTH While researching for this assignment, I came across a lot of good points about each access control measure, along with some bad points. Each measure was implemented with the best intentions for the user. The fact that SAML simplifies logon procedures was a big factor. Security Assertion Markup Language is an XML based open standard for exchanging authentication and authorization data between security domains. Open Authorization allows you to use a common username and password to access different sites. These sites are linked together in one form or another to share information on these sites. It’s important to note, not all information on the sites are shared, but some things such as address book, what you read, watch, or other bits of useable information can transfer. Security Assertion Markup Language uses assumptions that the user is enrolled with an identity provider. This identity provider is expected to provide local authentication services to the principal. However, SAML does not specify the implementation of these local services; indeed, SAML does not care how local authentication services are implemented. With this, a service provider relies on an identity provider to identify a principal. At the principal's request, the identity provider passes a SAML assertion to the service provider. On the basis of this assertion, the service provider makes an access...
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...Globalization was a component that has swayed Google as it has been the other way around as well. Overseeing the globalization for the company from California was a pivotal phase of the business. Google is maintaining its business globally and with similar exhibition, the external risks are intensified. Google has foreign contention in all of its primary businesses: advertisement, internet search, social media, and mobile phones. Some opposition such as Facebook for the social media and Apple for the phones and tablets are leaders and Google must review these external factors. Another external factor that impacts Goggle’s globalization can be difficult because other countries may not want to use a product they are unfamiliar with. Therefore, a thorough explanation of why a product would be beneficial in another country is very important (Ford, 2010). China for example had outlawed Google as a prominent search engine for political consideration. These slumps are compensated by the importance that globalization produces inside Google. In 2012 the organization has a variety of human resources in different locations internationally that creates difficultly to a competitor to even think about emulating Google. “What the laggards have failed to grasp is that what matters most today is not a company's competitive advantage at a point in time, but its evolutionary advantage over time” (Hamel, 2006). Google manages to prepare for their future by understanding that preparing requires...
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