Notes on The World is Flat (Friedman, 2006) Summary and excerpts from Thomas Friedman’s The World is Flat (2006) by Bill Altermatt CHAPTER 2: THE TEN FORCES THAT FLATTENED THE WORLD page 1 What Tom Friedman means by the phrase “The World is Flat” is that “the global competitive playing field is being leveled…It is now possible for more people than ever to collaborate and compete in real time with more other people on more different kinds of work from more different corners of the planet and
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that can be controlled by its rider through brain waves (Hsu). In perhaps the most jaw-dropping development, Patti Maes, a professor at MIT, is currently developing a brain implant device named Sixth Sense that would allow its wearer to access the Internet, use programs and software (such as Word or Instant Messaging) through a mental interface, and integrate it with his or her interactions (Mistry 2009). What would this technology be capable of?
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Michael Jackson Laverty Date: 05/24/15 Compare and contrast the two (2) industries you have identified in terms of size, products, services, customers, economic and regulatory environment. The two industries that I have identified are; Twitter and Google, Twitter is a "micro-blogging" tool, meaning you can share clever comments and content, but you must keep it brief (under 140 characters to be exact). Twitter has experienced exponential growth since it began. Twitter provides its users with many
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Executive summary This report is based on the company known as Wiggle which is the UK’s no 1 online cycle and Tri- sports retailer This report introduces wiggle company with a brief description of its history. The literature review of the report is about the supply chain and value chain of the business. The literature review describes about the supply chain and how the information technology affects the supply chain of the business. It also deals with the current strategy of wiggle and how the strategy
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WWW.IBISWORLD.COM Internet Publishing and Broadcasting in the US August 2014 1 High-speed growth: The internet’s advertising expenditures will increase, spurring growth IBISWorld Industry Report 51913b Internet Publishing and Broadcasting in the US August 2014 Stephen Hoopes 2 2 2 2 3 About this Industry Industry Definition Main Activities Similar Industries Additional Resources 17 International Trade 18 Business Locations 34 Regulation & Policy 34 Industry Assistance
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Aguirre Max von Weisberg 21 April 2010 1 I. Introduction Last year, 53% of adults (or 71% of internet users) in the United States received their news online than by buying a newspaper or magazine.1 Things have changed quite dramatically since
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Google Inc. is a global technology leader focused on improving the way people connect with information. They were incorporated in California in 1998 and reincorporated in Delaware in 2003. They maintain the largest, most comprehensive index of websites and other content all of which is free with any Internet connection. The corporation’s mission is as follows: “Our mission is to organize the world’s information and make it universally accessible and useful (Google, 1).” The mission can be
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MATTHIAS HILD* The Google IPO initial public offerings (IPOs) since Netscape's public offering in 1995.' Bullish investors believed Google could set off a string of successful IPOs and put an end to a fouryear lull in technology offerings. 2 Executives at Google faced several questions in the following months, beginning with whether or not to sell shares to the public market.' If they made the decision to take the company public, what options did Google have for selling those shares? Was the traditional
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that global warming is happening because the earth temperature went up by 1.4 degrees. Selection and Evaluation of Sources: For my first source I used the website article from the NY times. I found this website article by searching the internet search engine Google using the following terms Global Warming. I chose this website article because it argues that global warming is increases as long as emissions increase. The website article is current because it was updated on Jan 8, 2013. It is authoritative
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could only be promoted through media like TV, radio, newspaper and magazines. The amounts of audience the traditional advertising could reach were limited. Now, technology opened a new venue for advertising, that is Internet, which is able to reach wider range of audience. 7. Internet is a linked system of international computer networks. It changes the way we
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