Facebook is an online social networking site, which is headquartered California. Facebook inception was by Mark Z, who launed it on February 2004. The founders had initially limited the website's membership to Harvard students, but later expanded it to colleges in the Boston area, the Ivy League, and Stanford University. It gradually added support for students at various other universities and later to high-school students. Since 2006, anyone who is at least 13 years old was allowed to become
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The first crash that stock in U.S has spent was the time in the the Great Depression. The United State economy entered the Great Depression in 1929, many industries have collapsed. But at the first, stock had continued to rise and reached to the highest number of share ever. When consumer confidence disappeared in the wake of the collapse of the stock market, the decline in investment spending and factory leaders and other businesses to slow production, construction and start firing their employees
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Virtually everyone is aware of the infamous "dot-com" crash in early 2000. However, not everyone is as conscious of the telecom bust. According to the editorial of The Economist, The Great Telecoms Crash, "The telecoms bust is some ten times bigger than the dot-com crash: the rise and fall of telecoms may indeed qualify as the largest bubble in history." Companies caught up in the telecommunications industry were forced to take huge debt write-offs and even resorted to fraudulent accounting tricks
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could rate him 8/10. He always tried to expand the customer base by merging with the other online store and getting equity partnerships from other online retailers. Nevertheless he hired the best people which helped him to get over the hard times of dot-com burst. 2. If you look at the case, there were many strategies taken by Bezos from time to time from its evolution. At first after amazon.com was launched, he has launched new categories and he expanded his business globally and entered Europe market
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2008 Assignment Questions: 1. Consider the challenges facing the company. As a member of the Amazon.com board of directors in early 2001, what actions would you take? 3 pts. I would not have partnered with the dot-com retailers because they didn’t need topartner with another dot-com realtor it was a good move to partner with companys that need the partnership. 2. Do you agree with the decision to pursue the Toys “R” Us deal? Why did the company do the deal? Should they do more deals like
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prominent companies. How did it all come to this for Sun, often regarded as one of IT's great innovators during its 27-year lifespan? The dot-com crash at the start of this decade is frequently cited as the beginning of the end for Sun, and for good reason. Acquisition missteps and a failure to monetize key products such as Java also hastened Sun's descent. "The dot-com bust hurt everybody but it's arguable that Sun was hurt most of all because it had profited so much in the run up to the boom in the
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During the 1950s, the Korean War, the Algerian War, the Cold War and other political tensions such as the Cuban Revolution, as well as widespread political and economic changes in Africa during the initial stages of European Decolonization, did not stop the Dow's bullish climb higher. Additionally, the U.S. would also make its way through two grinding recessions; one in 1953 and another in 1958. A 200% increase in the average from a level of 206 to 616 ensued over the course of that decade. The
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disasters in history and a lot of questions have been asked about the degree of efficiency of the market. Being in a recession has never been more dangerous because of globalization; the whole world can be affected, just like what happened in the crash of 2008. It started in the United States and went viral throughout the world. We could believe that the financial meltdown of 2008 was caused by market inefficiency but a market that is efficient can also be mispriced in some cases. If we follow the
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Causes and consequences of financial crisis FIN 331 – DA BY : YOUSSEF SELHI AL-HARBI ID : 1110887 TURKEY KALID AL-JEHANI ID : 1053659 Causes and consequences of financial crisis It is often observed that successful investment requires each investor in a financial market to guess what other investors will do. George Soros has called this need to guess the intentions of others 'reflexivity' Similarly, John Maynard Keynes compared financial markets to a beauty contest game
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it has opened up its markets for investment by foreign players. The globalization and reforms of 90s despite opening up India’s market and providing employment and growth opportunities to millions, it comes with itself a huge risk of global market crash which incidentally would create a major shock in inflow of the capital into Indian markets. Capital influx impacts the economy by impacting foreign exchange reserves, this in turn, impact the monetary base when monetary base is impacted the
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