Essays on Google

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Impact on Privacy
Google’s latest invention is being launched across the globe. Described as an augmented reality eyewear, the “Google Glass” brings all features of our smart phones (such as voice communication, web browsing, camera, social media usage and apps) directly into our eyes and under the command of our voice. Ever since the concept was first introduced, and the prototype launched, Google Glass has attracted both fans and critics. While supporters consider this product to be the most significant technological advancement of the 21st century, it has also garnered many criticisms on the Continue reading...

Personal AHA’s about Information Technology

Although the efforts of organizations and technological establishments are to provide quality reciprocity, to service and evade disservice and care for consumers regularly, womenfolk and menfolk throughout the society endeavor to increase the safety and quality of organizations. My AHA visions are important to most organization within the science but primarily the technology and information systems industry. I can foresee the future of technology due to its energy and use of best practices of aiding individuals through their daily lives increasing their sense of self worthiness. Statistically, research has shown that certain types of information technology, such as computer Continue reading...

The development on internet technology has posed as a threat in the display of personal information. Large scale of breaches and vulnerabilities to personal information occurs Google is to blame. Large numbers of Americans have put their information on the internet while doing their searches. They put in their information and delete not knowing that a shadow remains. Such personal information includes personal experiences, personal information like bank information and social security number. The advent of social media has even made things worse. People put share their personal experiences and they think once they are done, the information disappears. Continue reading...

NPV= A1/ (1+k)1 + A2/ (1+k)2 + A3/ (1+k)3 + An/ (1+k)n – C

Where; A- Annual cash flow

k- Cost of capital

C- Initial investment

n- Number of years

Therefore;

NPV= 450,000/ (1+0.11)1 + 639,000/ (1+0.11)2 + 700,000/ (1+0.11)3 + 550,000/ (1+0.11)4 + 1,850,000/ (1+0.11)5 – 2,425,000
= 450,000/1.1 +639,000/1.232 + 700,000/1.368 +550,000/1.518 + 1,850,000/1.685 - 2,425,000
= 405,405.41+518,668.83+511,695.91+362,318.84+1,097,922.85-2,425,000
= 2,896,011.84-2,425,000
NPV = 471,011.84
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D Team

March9, 2014

JAPAN AND THE CREATION OF THE INTERNET SEARCH ENGINE 2
E. Defining the Internet
1. Cultural Context
The global spread of information technology has played a crucial role in the postmodern era of globalization as it is a majorly precondition for intensive worldwide interactions of people and exchanges of goods, information and capital. Information technocrats predict a final convergence of culturally different sectors into one world culture where a standardized information exchange is seamless. However, this is still an illusion as too many non-cultural factors and soft cultural hindrances exist as inhibitors for international association.
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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 Continue reading...

Web Application Security

1. WebGoat
Webgoat is a project designed and maintained by the Open Wide Application Security Project (OWASP) organization. It is a deliberately insecure web application designed to demonstrate the possible security flaws that can exist in a web application and the significance of testing and protecting the applications against such flaws. It thus provides a testing platform to assess the security of a web application. The testing is done in the Black Box method of testing, and though the source code of the web application is not available, it can be downloaded and viewed. It consists of several lesson Continue reading...

The Mission and Value of Google Company

The corporate culture and mission of Google Company reflects a philosophy of creating money without doing wickedness or evil. Moreover, work must be challenging and fun. At Google, these beliefs dictate life. The Google’s Inc certified mission statement is arranging or organizing information of the world and making it globally useful and accessible (Corporate Information 3). It has a value of no retaliation. Google Company forbids retaliation against any employee within the firm who participates in or reports an investigation enquiry of a likely violation of their code (Google’s Corporate Information 10).

History of the Google Company

Sergey Brin and Larry Page, Continue reading...

Introduction

Database technology has formed an important aspect of data management at Google. There are many requirements that require data storage at Google and are the reason why there is a big data store for the company. It is important for the company to undertake data storage.

Use of database management system

The use of database technology is increasing with the emergence of data and database connectivity. There has been increased use of database technology in many companies because of the connectivity and the ease it creates relationships. Database technology has been embraced with the emergence of data mining and the use of databases to Continue reading...

Question 1

Leadership theories and interpersonal forms of power
Leadership is the art of influencing others socially in order to achieve a common goal or objective. Some of the theories used to study leadership are the traditional leadership theories, including trait approaches, leadership style approach and contingency approach. These theories insist on the leader having supervisory approach over the employees. Contemporary theories, on the other hand, argue that effective leaders normally have cognitive and behavioural ability to effectively recognize and react to the complexity of their environment and what it presents o them. They include transactional and transformational leadership models. The Continue reading...

Organization

Introduction
In the modern age and times, firms have evolved from being just a profit-making enterprise for the owner, to being a wholesome place for the employees to work. Leadership styles have also changed from being authoritative to democratic. One of the best examples of an ideal leader in the modern business environment is the Executive Chairman of Google Inc., Erich Schmidt (Carlson, 2009). In this research paper, the leadership style of Eric Schmidt and why it is so popular would be analyzed in detail.

Born in 1955, Erich E. 0Schmidt has Bachelors and Masters Degrees in Electrical Engineering, Continue reading...

Introduction

Many ideas come to mind when one is asked to describe the American dream. The American dream is an all inclusive term used to describe the energy and innovation of people in America. It also includes the various freedoms they enjoy and the ethnic and racial mix of the people. The American dream serves as a compass for how people envision their lives while living in America. For those willing to take the opportunities that come their way by being diligent and savvy, a prosperous and fulfilling life is usually the result. For Larry Page, the co-founder of Google, Continue reading...

Lenovo, the world’s largest PC maker recently bought Motorola from Google for $2.9 billion. The deal consisted of $660 million in cash and $750 million in Lenovo shares, and the remaining $1.5 billion was paid in the form of a three-year promissory note. Both companies believe that the acquisition strategy is positive move for both of them.
Google initially bought Motorola for $12.5 billion in 2012 mainly because of its patent portfolio. However, the acquisition proved to be a bad move as it did not ward off lawsuits and did not bring in the expected royalties. Furthermore, Google’ Continue reading...

Google is a company that has created a road map for what IT companies should be like; explain how Google can be considered to be one of the world’s best companies and at the same time one of the world’s most secretive organizations.

Introduction

Google is one of the best IT companies in the world. The company has earned web domination in terms of content search. The company has dominated web search for a long time. Apart from the strategy they have used to win users, it is also one of the best companies to work for. The Continue reading...

In response to Kristian’s answer, companies have different hiring process. The hiring process really depends on the policies that are implemented; the size of the company, the offered or needed job position, and the type of industry a company operates. Any companies are hiring top candidates with the best characteristics who seek in career opportunities. A significant company decision for any organization is how to choose an employee that qualifies to the position as required. The best candidate or applicant that fits in the business culture is one that is productive at the workplace. The success of the Continue reading...

Organization Environment of the Google Company

Google Company has been the top ranked multinational company in the entire world for its high revenues and highly marketable products. In 2013, the company increased its employees to over 30, 000 around the world. Google’s mission to ensure availability and ease accessibility of information to people across the globe has been facilitated by intelligent and creative management team. The management team has embarked on various products that have enhanced the company’s sales. For instance, the company has established web search, Google chrome, image search, blog search, and alerts among other products that have made Google Company Continue reading...

Google’s employee Compensation strategy

Companies could be defined as entities that struggle to make profit, and these entities comprise of several different components including shareholders as the owners, directors as the managers, and the third most integral part; their employees who are basically responsible for the transition of inputs into outputs. Another term that is important to grasp before we proceed is a company’s compensation strategy. For a company to run at maximum possible efficiency, it is very important that the employees are highly motivated and loyal to their work and their company, and in order to achieve this aspiration, companies often Continue reading...

Social conflict theories claim that society is in a state of perpetual conflict due to competition for limited resources (Johnson 164). According to conflict theory, the wealthy use force and power to maintain class status. The rich exploit the poor in a destructive pursuit of creating and maintaining wealth. Once in power, they create institutions, governments and systems that maintain and strengthen their power, and perpetuate the exploitation of the poor (Knapp 280). Social conflict theory focuses on the socioeconomic inequality in society, and usually offer criticism of established power structures, such as governments, economic systems or entities like Continue reading...

Management information systems

Introduction
Information systems are important components that have been integrated in organizations in the world today. Information systems play crucial roles in different organizations. To some organizations, they play the role of bringing competitive advantage, to some it plays the role of efficiency and fats transactions. In banking it is used to increase the efficiency of services, in health, it used to increase the accuracy of undertaking operations. This paper will focus on the use of information systems in different organizations. The two organizations where the paper will be focused will be Google and Amazon. They are different because Continue reading...

Business Management

Motivation plays an important role in any business and two of the most prominent theories of motivation are Maslow’s Hierarchy of Needs and Herzberg’s Theory of Motivation and Hygiene.
The former theory is often represented in the form of a pyramid where the physiological needs of shelter, hunger, etc. are at the bottom or first level and self actualization at the top or final level; with the fulfilment of each level of needs the individual moves on to the next. Thus, the satisfaction of a lower level need motivates people to aim for the higher level needs. Continue reading...

Leadership Style: How Are Leaders Leading In The 21st Century?

Currently, Larry Page is the chief executive to Google. He is likewise a Co-founder of the company. His responsibility entails leading technology strategy and company`s product development as well as running the day to day operations of Google. While at Stanford University pursuing a Ph.D. Larry Page co-founded the company with Sergey Brin. He holds an engineering bachelor`s degree from the University of Michigan and from Stanford University, and he has a computer science master`s Degree (Schmidt, 2014).
Larry Page has a unique leadership style and philosophy that he uses to run Google. One was paying Continue reading...

Abstract

Perceptions often play a very significant role in determining the overall performance of an organization. Due to their enormous influence on performance, they tend to exhibit more of interaction levels of employees and their management as well as determine – to a greater extent – the culture of an organization. Indeed, it has been observed that perceptions could be a great channel through which the study of employee motivation can be achieved. Further, motivation in a company can serve as a starting point to understanding employee, as well as leadership perceptions. The research seeks to get perceptions of employees at Google, Continue reading...

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. Continue reading...

Educational Institution

Google has been in the middle of a conflict with the European Union for nearly half a year now. This conflict was initially caused by the “right to be forgotten” legislature that was adopted in the European Parliament in May 2014. Main concept of this legislature is the right of an individual to request erasure of personal data. The conflict was later on exacerbated by the recent attempt of the European Parliament to split up Google and break off its search engine from other services of the company as a part of anti-trust activities. Even though this decision of Continue reading...

The Fortune list of companies is an international list of companies updated each year, which provides the names of the top grossing and most profitable companies of that year. Several multi-national companies make great efforts to remain a part of this list by improving several of their parameters like working culture, profitability, employee satisfaction, customer care etc. amongst other parameters (Day). This list consists of some of the big names of the day like Google. One organization that has constantly remained a part of this list is the Google. The Google is a United States based software and information Continue reading...

The Google incorporation is an established internet search engine that has gained excellent recognition around the world. This is due to the efforts it has made in making the internet easy to access and by providing all the relevant information that anyone could possibly search for on their site. The organization has gained worldwide recognition due to the changes that it has made on the internet world. There have been constant changes that have been made in the cooperation to try and adapt to the constant change that are taking course in the technology world. Google has gained enough Continue reading...

Summary

The article is entitled “Trust-busting on the internet age, Should digital monopolies ends up broken?" by Collins Shia from the Economists. The article is about the effect of the Google monopolistic venture in the use of internet. Other internet companies that offer data to consumers complain the impact of Google to accruing many consumers (Shia, 1). The increasing use of incentives by Google in providing a multiple of services to consumers has led to incompetence of its rivals. The increasing demand for internet services to consumers on this digital era has attracted many companies into the field. The European Continue reading...

There was once a very elaborate way to thinking and coming up with ideas when we had little to rely on except for our thinking ability. We used to travel through a number of thought processes that guided our way to the correct answer, and the thought process used to be an integral part of this tedious exercise. Through this thought process, however, we were able to shape and organize our ideas into a form that used to make more sense to others. For me personally, the thinking process was quite remarkable and provided greater opportunity to exercise my Continue reading...

Introduction

There are many sources of revenue of businesses in various fields. The watches, fitness products and the smart glasses have become an important field of business for many of the entrepreneurs. Various studies have been conducted as far as the global revenue generated by these sources are concerned. It has been estimated that approximately, £2 billion of global revenue in the year 2014 till date has been generated by smart glasses. It is anticipated that UK would be contributing around 10% of the global market in this regard.
The smart glasses have been categorized as most successful and are Continue reading...

Introduction

Design thinking can be defined as the creative process of coming up with new innovative ideas to solve problems. Design thinking combines innovation and critical thinking to allow data to be organized, decisions to be implemented and solutions to be enhanced. Design thinking can be applied in all areas of industry such as technology, business, science, education, humanities and architecture. Design thinking process starts with defining the problem. Then research is done on previous attempts to solve the problem. Research is followed by ideation where design thinkers brainstorm and come up with different ideas on solving the problem. Then Continue reading...

Integrating Culture and Diversity in Decision Making: The CEO and Organizational Culture Profile

Fall 2014
1. Provide a brief (one [1] paragraph) description of the organization you chose to research.
Google Inc. is an American corporation that deals in internet search engines technology and a variety of products. It has two co-founders, Sergey Brin and Larry Page, who were students at Stanford University. In 1998, it got incorporated as a private company. It has grown tremendously from a university project called Backrub to become one of the most renowned companies with its headquarters at Mountain View, California. It deals in a number of products and services like web search, image search, and Continue reading...

Google Inc. is one of the most successful multinational corporations (MNCs) of the world. The revolution of search engine brought by the Google enabled the internet users to get any information at their fingertip with just a mouse click. The other internet related services from Google include cloud computing, Ad Words, technologies related to advertising and software, etc. Google is one of the most powerful search engines that is highly accepted for its organized information and used by people of all ages all over the world. Being a great success in the field of internet, it would be good Continue reading...

Introduction

This HR project was initiated by me and my team mate to conduct a live research with an HR professional to learn about the performance management process in his or her organization. The organization chosen for the current study is Google Inc. The interviews were conducted with HR professional at Google and online marketing manager at the organization. The interviews with the professionals were conducted in person. The paper provides details about the performance management systems at Google, their employee appraisal systems and the various parameters on the basis of which the performance of the employees are evaluated. The Continue reading...

Google glass

"It's 2017 and due to the mobile and wearable technologies available, I am amazed by the way that I am able to get my work done, interact with my colleagues and monitor various aspects of my life, including my health, finances, personal security and more. My favorite device allows me not to fumble like I used to with my smartphone. Currently, when I am going to a new place or town, I do not really have to ask for directions. I am able to search for directions to the places that I want to go. Take for instance; I Continue reading...

Once again, we find ourselves holding our breath as Google announces yet another experiment that is going to ensure the availability of internet to the world. Even with increasing popularity and dependability on internet, two-thirds of people do not have means to a fast and affordable internet. Google however is making all possible efforts to remedy the problem; by way of a new experiment announced while 2013 called the ‘Google balloon.' The experiment is also widely being termed as the ‘loon experiment’ due to the unorthodox design and prototype, and very truly so.
Google presented the following plan for Continue reading...

Making a decision on whether to accept or decline a job offer can be a huge challenge for many. The choice of company is determined not just by the remuneration offered but also several other factors that make a great career. It is crucial that one considers opportunity for growth, relevance of the experience to one’s career goals, opportunity for further training and learning, company ethics and work schedule among other. Having been offered opportunities in two companies; Google and RadioShack as Chief Executive Officer; calls for a thorough assessment before making a decision. Working for Google presents Continue reading...

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1 Start: Californian home automation company, Nest Labs, Inc., has been in news lately for acquiring Revolv, and Nest had acquired Dropcam before.
End: Since Nest is owned by Google, Google is on an acquisition spree. Globalization has increased the markets and opportunities for more growth and revenue. However, increasingly diverse markets have a wide variety of needs and expectations that must be understood if they are to become strong customers and collaborators. Organizations must also be aware of their holistic nature and of the ways their members affect one another. The incredible amount of change has forced individuals Continue reading...

Web 2.0 is a term used to describe the second generation of the World Wide Web. Web 2.0 was a transition from the static HTML web pages that are more organized to give the best service to their users. It is a term used to describe more applications and internet technology such as wikis, RSS, social bookmarking and blogs. The Web 2.0 version has two major components that are enabled by applications such as Eclipse and Ajax. The essay explores the use of social networking, wikis and blogs and other tools that are used in Web 2.0 version. Additionally, Continue reading...

and Tumin’s Views on Social Stratification Theory
There has been a growing controversy in San Francisco over corporate buses used by Google and other tech companies to shuttle employees from their homes in San Francisco to corporate campuses forty miles away in Silicon Valley. The buses have been described as oversized ominous looking limousines, with tinted windows, and WiFi. The shuttles are free, only for corporate employees and use the exact same routes and stops as the public transportation system. They also cause traffic congestion and delay public bus routes. After the city failed to restrict the shuttles, Continue reading...