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Management Information System

Management Information Systems

- Accelerator titanium as an enterprise platform for developing applications running in mobile phones, tablets and desktop computers makes it easier to create these applications by using a single software code base. This subsequently speeds up the process of developing applications as it is not only easy but also fast to do so. The titanium framework also allows the development of native applications for apple and android devices by using a single code base for software development (Allen, 2010).

- It is important for titanium to be an open source tool to enable development of different ...

Google is a result of collaborative efforts of Sergey Brian and Larry Page; they were the students of PhD at the Stanford University. This bright idea hit them during the education, to develop a worldwide search engine, which could be used and deployed worldwide. The page ranking algorithm developed by Brian and Larry was rated as the most intelligent software as it could cater any content throughout web and could tell the importance of the pages as well. The mechanism deployed behind the Google search engine was that it uses page ranking algorithm in connection with back-linking of data. Also, the ...

The iPad as a disruptive technology:

Introduction: A review of Apple’s Business Model.
According to the case study, Apple’s previous business model focused more on device popularity other than the content. Apple’s new business model success ascribes to Apple’s understanding that high-quality content delivery from the various types of media its devices support is crucial. The company has made deals with players in the media industry to distribute content to users at prices agreed on by the content and platform owners. To enable this kind of shift, even Apple had to change tact and focus more on presentation, content, design ...

Apple is a multinational company that is headquartered in the Californian State of the United States of America. The company mainly develops, sells and designs the major apple consumer electronics. The company also develops consumer hardware and software. Among her hardware products include; iPad tablets, iPhone smart phones, iPod media player (portable) introduced in the year 2001, Apple smart watches, Mac personal computers, Apple digital televisions and Mac personal computers. The company has also increased its online services that suite productivity and creativity. Subsequently, the apples consumers’ software’s have been developed to meet customers’ needs and satisfaction. This ...

ABSTRACT

Internet and online security is one of the most important issues facing not only companies and organizations but individuals as well. These concerns are driven by the fact that as the world increasingly grows to use and rely on computers, mobile devices, and the internet; cybercriminals and others including government agencies, are progressively turning their attention to means and methods of exploiting weaknesses in the system. Unfortunately, weaknesses in the system, either through the diversity of devices that are available for use or the means by which those device access the internet or go online, are growing. Despite these ...

Abstract

Most organizations and businesses have reported a loss of billions of money while others have become bankrupt leading to closure. Security breaches have propagated most of these events due to the kind of technology implemented. Mobile devices and Internet connections have been on top of the list. As technology keeps on evolving, different convenient methods of communication and accessing information keeps on improving. This evolution leads to new cybercrime activities which have posed to be a significant threat to financial growth in different economic sectors. However, there have been the implementation of new methods to curb the security breaches ...

Judging by the information above, the application has a great potential to become, first of all, popular and, secondly, profitable. However, there’s one thing missing, without which Alex and Pavel won’t be able to reach their goals and populate the app finally entering the U.S. market. It is marketing mix, or, in other words, strategies and tactics that programmers should use to achieve results. Alongside with this problem, there’s another one – inability to determine the target audience.
Basically, it is very important to build the target audience and one characteristic, which is about ‘being parents’, is ...

Introduction: Issue Identification

The mobile phone business sector is one of the fastest growing industries not only in the United States but in the rest of the world. Industry experts have previously released reports suggesting that the industry grew by at least 7.3 percent in the year 2013 , which was actually a sharp rebound from the mediocre growth rate the mobile phone market industry got a year before. The market growth rate in 2012 was 1.2%. Some of the most prominent names in the said industry are Samsung Electronics, Apple, Sony Electronics, Lenovo, and Blackberry, just to name a few. The two biggest players are ...

Undeniably, Black berry is of the well-known companies in the whole world. It is well known for the great products that it produces to the market. This organization has been able to go through various stages of a normal company life cycle. However, the company has always been willing to rise up, and continue or even where necessary, to restart the life cycle stages. Many organizations have to go through a life cycles that are similar to the life cycle of blackberry. Several factors influence the longevity that is related to a given life cycle. These are saturation composition, as well as, ...

Q1 four main products of Google

The four main products of Google are desktop products, mobile products, web products and hardware products. Desktop products from Google include stand alone and desktop extensions. Google chrome which a s web browser, the application that allows users to use satellite in virtual viewing of the earth through imagery and photography Google Earth and the video hosting site YouTube are some of the stand alone products from Google. Google toolbar such as browser toolbar is an extension of the Google desktop products. Mobile products are all the mobile applications that are supported by Google. The product that is available for ...

Leung Man Hong

Strategic Management
- Organizational and Business Overview
Headquartered in Finland, Nokia is best known as a manufacturer of mobile handsets, having led the industry for decades before facing a massive decline in the late 2000s. Nokia was the top brand in the consumer electronics segment, however, between 2012 and 2013, its brand value fell by a massive 65% bringing it down to the 57th rank . Nokia’s three main business lines are: a) Mobile handsets, b) Nokia Networks, and c) Nokia Ventures . Over 1.2 billion people across the globe use Nokia products. Figure 1 illustrates the organizational structure at Nokia :
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Compare the business models and areas of strength of Apple, google and Microsoft?

Microsoft, apple and google are the three major companies with major stakes in the mobile services, computers and the internet services all over the world. The three are prime competitors with each trying to get a lion’s share of the market niches. However they are all known to prevail in an area respectively.
Microsoft dominates the computer and PC field, the company has developed the best operating systems, and computer application programs. For a long time now, Microsoft has been the leading supplier and developer of user friendly Windows operating system and the reliable and easy to use Microsoft ...

1. What were some of the challenges that RIM faced to protect its intellectual property, and how did RIM handle those challenges?
Research In Motion is a Canadian design company that was founded in 1984 in Ontario. It focuses on the development of mobile devices and is widely known for its Blackberry wireless platform, which has revolutionized the market by an all-in-one communication device. The industry, where RIM operates, is characterized by a strong focus on intellectual property (IP) rights that is why it is so crucial for the company to protect its intellectual property carefully. An example of a main challenge ...

Management

INTRODUCTION
Zynga Inc. is the largest game developer in the world with nearly 290 million monthly active users per month who are playing their games mainly on Facebook such as Mafia Wars, Zynga Poker, Frontier Ville, City Ville, Farm Ville, among others. Moreover, Zynga offers its game through several platforms such as My Space, iPad, Yahoo, iPhone and Android (Survey Analytics).

The leader of Zynga, Mark Pincus, founded the company in 2007 and led the company with his leadership skills making the company to be a pioneer in the social gaming industry. Although it is important for a leader ...

Google has become a giant company with many innovative ideas that are regularly introduced to the public. However, not all ideas are successfully realized and the company is sometimes criticized for being ineffective. For example, Project Loon is one of the recent controversial projects that received a lot of criticism especially from the investors that do not realize fully the goals of Google’s revolutionary innovation. So the innovation strategies at Google should be assessed more deeply in order to understand why Google sometimes presents the ideas that are very difficult to realize in the real life.
Google used ...

1-Strategic rationale: what are the primary reasons for the acquisition?

In September 2013, Microsoft acquired Nokia at a cost of $7 billion in a bid to strengthen its (Microsoft) position as one of the leading players in the mobile universe. The strategic rationale was in response to the fierce competition in the industry. Microsoft desires to enhance its market competitiveness. Before the partnership with Nokia, Microsoft was virtually irrelevant in the mobile market but its acquisition of Nokia has enabled the company makes inroads in the lucrative smartphone industry. Nokia smartphones run on Microsoft’s Windows Phone 8 operating system. Sale of Nokia smartphones has gradually increased, and Microsoft would benefit ...

The purpose of this report was to analyse and identify the key strategic issues that were important to develop a new market strategy for Nokia. Although Nokia is doing well in its low cost mobile segment market, and is still second behind Samsung in the overall sales, the real problem lies in the smartphone category. Nokia has lost its market share to the likes of Samsung and Apple in the most competitive smartphone category.
1. Some of the internal issues that the company needs to address were: Its inability to break into the US market, that is considered to ...

The war between Amazon, Apple, Facebook and Google is bound to escalate on the search and hardware fronts. The software giants, Amazon and Google, are in competing in their attempts to increase their hardware products. This is in an attempt to increase their customer loyalty (Deghton&Kornfeld, 2013, p. 2). This move is also aimed at extending their control over the software services offered by these companies and the flow of revenues from these services. It has resulted to increased rivalry between the two companies with Apple responding by developing and building its own unique software. This is because it ...

Introduction

Having developed form a trading company in South Korea, Samsung has emerged as one of the largest and influential companies around the globe. Though the company has a number of businesses, ranging from trading to insurance, Samsung Electronics is the most successful ranch in the group. Over the years, Samsung has been labeled as the fastest growing brands in the world. The company has achieved through this through redefining its products and the great marketing strategies that the company uses. In the present, the advancement in the technology calls for quick adaption to the technological changes, and Samsung has used this ...

One of the main reasons why Apple 5c has gathered little interest in the market compared to 5s is because of the price difference. According to critics, both phones have the same features. The difference in pricing has deterred customers from buying iPhone 5c. Pricing is essential in controlling the market share. Android-based phones and tablets concern analysts. The organisation is considering changing some of the marketing mix strategy in order to remain relevant in the marketplace. In order to maximise on this potential, the organisation will focus on changing it promotional strategies in order to make sure that ...

1) What, historically, have been Apple's competitive advantages?
Historically, Apple’s competitive advantage has been its innovation and superior research and design. Through this Apple has been able to design user-friendly products that produce raving fans. Its history of innovation has produced products which competitors find difficult to copy.
2) Analyze the personal computer industry, Are the dynamics favorable or problematic for Apple?
3) How sustainable is Apple's competitive position in PCs?
Apple’s position is the PC industry is strong considering it serves a specific niche of computer professionals. It will able to retain its position ...

Business Model of Instagram

Introduction
In the modern business world, the success of a business is greatly influenced by the Business Model adopted. A business model can be simply described as a program that details on the ways and means through which a business intends to generate profits from innovations (Slideshare 1). Instagram is an example of a business which has a well defined program through which it is supposed to make business gain (Griffin and Media para 2). Instagram as a brand is a universal online website and mobile application which allows users to communicate and store information by uploading and sharing photos and videos. The application also ...

Google was incorporated in 1998 by Larry Page and Sergey Brin. From its very humble beginnings in a garage, it now has more than 70 offices located in 40 countries. Google is known for several outstanding achievements under the leadership of Eric Schmidt. Foremost among these achievements is the AdSense which is a self-serve advertising platform for websites and a revenue producer for the company. Another accomplishment of Google is the Google maps, though not an income earner is the backbone of other Google services such as Latitude, Places and Maps Navigation . Gmail, the email service of Google is another popular achievement ...

Business

VoIP service offerings
Covad was formed in the year 1996 after ambitious executives decided to venture in the world of technology and service delivery on their own. They have faced numerous challenges over the years but have remained as the number one data delivery company in the United States. Today, they boast of delivering their services to over 50% of the United States (Valdes & Roos 2012). Their services include voice over internet protocol services, data services, security services, and hosted IT service. Their success can be attributed to good leadership, resiliency, and innovation. The services that they offer ...

1. Discuss competition in the search industry. Which of the five competitive forces seem strongest? Weakest? What is your assessment of overall industry attractiveness?
The assessment of the search industry attractiveness can be done using the Porter’s Five Forces analysis. The framework was developed in 1979 by Michael Porter in his article “How Competitive Forces Shape Strategy”. It suggests that the competitiveness of an industry is shaped through five forces that are exerted by the main players in the market: customers, suppliers, competitors, new entrants and substitutes. In more recent versions of the framework it is also ...

Operational activities are critical component of businesses and organisations. Business ventures are started to provide services and products to clients. The operation is concerned with transformation of available resources into outputs which include products and services. Therefore, the management of company operations is crucial. The operation management involves planning designing, and monitoring the production process and improving systems and structures for purposes of achieving high efficiency. This requires a strategy which outlines how an operational objective is to be achieved. This essay uses Apple Inc to illustrate the concept of strategic operation management. It examines the company critical components of ...