Google Article Reviews Samples For Students

In his renowned 2008 article for The Atlantic Monthly, “Is Google Making Us Stupid? What the internet is doing to our brains,” writer Nicholas Carr suggest that while Internet has helped today’s generation gain limitless amount of information at the click of a mouse, this easy access to information comes at a cost. Carr maintains that quick access to a large pool information results makes people skim information the contents quickly rather than carefully reading and conceptualizing the information. According to him, this results into shortened memory span, an increasing inability to concentrate or read long texts. As the internet increasingly becomes ...

Article review: Google Tips off Users in China

This article looks at Google as a social service provider to the public. It considers the idea that there is the probability that users use the site as an exchange of ideas, which might trigger public unrest in the Peoples’ Republic of China. The author takes the opportunity to advise the Chinese people to be careful of the information they post using the site. This article mainly provides elucidation as to why the Chinese people have failed to access the Google site, despite the Google authorities having failed to admit the reasons to the Chinese. The Chinese authorities have restricted ...

1. Demand and Supply

Pepitone reported that coffee futures had dropped due to favorable coffee-growing weather conditions (n.p.). Coffee lovers now enjoy 1.6%-6.0% cut prices on several popular brands including Maxwell House, Smucker, Folgers and Millstone. Interestingly, the prices for coffee products had increased for 10-20% several months ago. Smucker had increased prices for its coffee products for 10% in February and then an increase of 10% followed in May. Starbucks had upped the price for 17% for the package of coffee in the U.S. retail stores. In accordance with Wall Street Journal, key coffee producers were having the largest harvest of ...

1. Anderson, L.V. (2016, May 19). Ethics compliance training is a waste of time. Slate Magazine.
This article, despite the cynical title, provides good research concerning the process by which companies implement ethics compliance training programs, including what incentive they have and how the external legal environment influences them to do this. The article begins by stating that the predominant form of ethics compliance training that all onboarded employees typically take in corporate organizations in the United States are in the form of eLearning courses. The article describes the typical mandatory basic ethics, harassment and discrimination training that are ...

Transnational Google Corporation is known as one of the most famous companies in the world. Google Corporation occupies leading positions in the rankings among the best companies and is considered to be the best employer in the world. This is due to its personnel policy, system of motivation, as well as providing the freedom for engineers to implement their own projects. This is a global company, which offers the search in all languages and has representative offices in all regions of the world. In the era of globalization this is extremely successful strategy, especially for companies with a computer ...

The prevalence of Internet use has often been the focus of various studies and articles. The benefits and probable harms of such advanced technology have been discussed in various platforms by various experts on various fields of study and the public. Among the large volume of works written in an aim to assess and weigh the effects of Internet is Nicholas Carr’s article titled Is Google Making Us Stupid which was published in the July-August 2008 issue of The Atlantic. Carr has written in length the probable negative effects of the Internet in people’s way of reading ...

Major Focus of the Article

The smartphone industry affects everyone in the business world. So much business is done on smartphones today that they are taking over the world—Apple’s iPhone is arguably one of the most popular phones available in today’s market, according to Forbes reporter Spence (2015). Apple’s iPhone and Google’s Android accounted for 96.3% of the smartphones shipped in 2014, indicating that there was a serious corner on the market for Apple. The Windows operating system for smartphones was able to control only a tiny fraction of the market at 2.7% (Spence, 2015). This indicates that between Apple and ...

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iPhone vs Android
The use of mobile technology provides numerous advantages and benefits to the mobile consumers in general. The two of the most popular mobile technology there is in the market today are iPhone by Apple Technology and Android Smartphones by Google. This paper aims to evaluate these two products in terms of their features and marketability based on reputable consumer reports.
The operating system is one of the defining features that set the iPhone and Android Smartphones apart. For many years, Apple has dominated the mobile technology arena by providing what the ...

Business

It is ethically wrong for the LPS Company to employ improper fee structure which results to double-billing the mortgage investors for legal services which is related to the processing of the foreclosures and the bankruptcies. Timaraos (2013). this is actually ethically wrong.
The company’s ethical duty could have been to provide the right information to the clients rather than exploiting them on the basis of providing them with the improper fee structure which resulted to double-billing their mortgage for legal services which is related to the processing of the foreclosures and the bankruptcies. I therefore propose that ...

Modern devices today especially smartphones are vital to the tectonic shift taking place in both the business and media world. This is because what you do with your smartphone while at the train station while waiting for a train, avoiding your daily chores, idling around or probably at the bus station waiting for a bus is helping a company raise revenues and incur profits. This is the case for Mark Zuckerberg’s Facebook where most people spend time on. For this reason, Facebook is the leading brand ahead of other companies involved in technology. An article from New York ...

Introduction

The Chinese people experienced eminent growths in terms of art and their culture between the period of 950-1200 AD. There were many developments in music, philosophy, literature and visual arts, which blossomed due to printing activities, hence making the Chinese culture spread to other regions. Among the major contributors towards this growth are the Song, Ming, Qing and Yuan Dynasties, which did many paintings and poetry to reflect further their culture 1. These works of art were exhibited for viewers during religious and other seasonal activities, an event that made the Chinese appreciate their culture. At some point during ...

In Bettig and Hall’s article “Ad Creep: The Commercialization of Culture,” the authors discuss the phenomenon of “ad creep,” which is described as “the gradual expansion of advertising into nontraditional spaces such as public playgrounds, school buses, sidewalks, and beaches” (193). In essence, as advertisements become more and more recognizable and rejected by the public, marketers and advertisers must find new ways to incorporate their advertisements into everyday life. As a result, instead of having separate avenues for delivering advertisements (like a commercial in between programmed television), they use strategies like ‘product placement,’ ...

Summary

Article One: New Consoles on the Way, but Gaming Isn't the Same
Physical and console sellers form a significant value as it regards sales that entail stock. In this case, they make approximately thirteen percent of all the sales made in a year. However, this trend does not come from the blues; it originates from efforts garnered by console sellers. However the case, their activities are frequently hurdled by the existence of arising instances of overstocking. It is in response to this that research has been developed, and efforts towards curbing such instances have been placed in the scope so ...

Online marketing is also known as internet advertising. It involves using the internet to promote products and services. It also uses the internet to deliver information and promotional messages to consumers. This form of marketing involves email, social media and search engine marketing. It displays marketing information to both potential and current consumers.
The internet has a very huge effect on marketing. Many organizations nowadays use it to make their products visible to consumers. Since the brand name is very unimportant to consumers, most businesses have known this and have therefore, used the internet as a marketing tool. Following are ...

Article 1

The concern arising from generative technology is the threat posed by bad codes. When an individual using a PC clicks on a bad code, strangers can have control over that computer. The threat of bad codes has been increasing over the years with several viruses spreading to many PCs. For instance, the MYdoom worm that spread rapidly in 2004, consequently affected millions of PCs all over the world. The threat affected connectivity leading to losses amounting to billions of dollars. Business models have been developed for bad codes to help PC from being affected by worms and viruses.
Another concern ...

The article entitled, “Live@Edu grows, evolves into Office 365 for Education, leapfrogs Google Apps for Education,” by Christopher Dawson.

In 2011, Microsoft Corporation; the largest software developing corporation in the world launched “office 365 software” that has unique and advanced features and applications for students, teachers and educational systems. Dawson, points out that Microsoft Corporation had organized a cloud computing campaign called “we are all in” before launching office 365 software in the market. However, most people did not believe that the plan was going to work, but the introduction of office 356 has proved them wrong. The author articulates that office 365 provides students with a powerful platform for sharing information, ideas, opinions, and educational researchers; an idea that ...

Effective strategic planning not only carries a company toward an objective, it anticipates changes in the External Environment, and positions a company to adapt. What are some of the changes Yahoo! may be anticipating?

Strategic planning requires a company to consider not only their internal strengths and weaknesses, but also to address the changes in the in the external environment. Firstly, Yahoo! anticipates that buyers will demand more integrated solutions and require more localized information. That is why Yahoo! is attempting to go into additional areas and to expand its offering. Moreover, the company is predicting a change in user demographics, thus targeting ...

Lately, Microsoft board of directors has experienced various oppositions from dissenting ideas on the strategies used by the management to run the company. In August 2013, Steve Ballmer who was the chief executive officer of the company announced his intentions of stepping down and in February 2014 Satya Nadella took over as the chief executive officer. However, the efforts of Ballmer towards saving the company have not been successful as it is clear that Satya took over a company that is stumbling ("Should Apple Buy Microsoft?"). For instance, some products such as Microsoft Surface, Windows Phone, Windows 8, and ...

Essay 1

Is Google MAKING Us Stupid by Nicholas Carr
The idea that intrigued me most is the fact that modern day society is getting overly dependent on the internet, and hardcopy reading culture is slowly dying. Gone are the days when people could visit libraries to read or conduct research. Today, people comfortably do that from behind their desktops in the comfort of their homes. A lot of information is easily made available, and it helps people to have “immediate access to such an incredibly rich store of information” according to Carr.
What I have learned from this article is ...

Is Apple Company any better after Steve Jobs Death?

Succession in Apple Company remained a tussle among the interested potential CEOs after the death of Steve Jobs death in 2011 (Chen). The employees of the company were worried and felt hopeless as they thought everything in Apple will change including the nature of the working environment and working conditions. There was a need for a more practical CEO who will streamline everything in Apple to raise its performance. While everyone though that Apple Company was on its ways to the grave with Steve Jobs, things turned out to be a surprise. Tim Cook took up the position and began to make everything ...

The American hospital system is in a state of crisis. On the one hand there is competition to increase the profits that hospitals generate. On the other hand there is a concerted effort to improve the quality of care that is delivered by them. In some sense, these are competing values insofar as quality healthcare is an expensive proposition. Medical error accounts for a large portion of the failure in quality as well as the perceived lack of quality in care. In some respects, medical error is unavoidable. Physicians are humans and they will make mistakes. Furthermore, many hospitals are also teaching ...

Organization Structure has impact, effects and influences on many and most of the aspects of an organization that determine its performance. Most important is the kind of effects it has to the people within the organization, from the staff to the management and even its owners or stake holders. The aspects of an organization that are influenced by the organization structure are
- Effectiveness and efficiency
- Internal communication
- Employee morale
Different types of organizational structures exist, each with its own pros and cons, each with its own effect on the overall organization behavior. ...

In the article Can Jury Trial Survive Google?, the author Caren Myers Morrison (2011) describes a budding problem in the American jury system and provides recommendations to address these problems.
According to Morrison (2011), the jurors’ misuse of technology is negatively affecting their impartiality, which is supposed to ensure the fairness of trials. Because of the accessibility of information via the Internet and because of the ease of communication that technology affords, more and more jurors are engaging in behaviors that compromise their impartiality towards the cases that they’re hearing.
In particular, Morrison (2011) identifies four ways ...

International Implementation Strategies

Strategy is often defined as a long-term direction of the company, which considers available resources and environmental challenges in the attempt to meet customer and stakeholder demands. Strategies, which are implemented internationally and are designed for major global players, should carefully consider customer preferences and the peculiarities of the markets not only on the national level but also internationally.

The recent example of Nokia shows the difficulty of capturing the market globally and maintaining leadership for a longer period. Continuous success may result in irresponsiveness of the company to the emerging trends, which eventually may be detrimental for the company’s ...

Pink Pork

Most top chefs and some scientists breathed a sigh of relief when the U.S. Department of Agriculture (USDA) announced that pink pork is safe for human consumption. For years, they have been urging the USDA body to declare that pink pork is safe in vain (Cevallos, 2011).
Previously people have viewed the pink color of pork with skepticism for they associated it with undercooking. With the recent announcement, the lovers of this rare meat do not have to worry about the pink color anymore. The color issues came about when USDA lowered the safe temperatures of cooking pork. Initially ...