Dec 17, 2009
This article pertains to the drop in MySpace web traffic. According to Eliot Van Buskirk of wire.com MySpace’s parent company stands to lose approximately 100 million because it can meet its web traffic (advertizing) quota with Google. This is bad new foe News Corp because it covered its 580 dollar acquisition of MySpace; on the [...]
Dec 17, 2009
Oil baron’s wind farm project hits doldrums Social Entrepreneurship: Going Green I tired to find a decent article which talks about globalization but an article about green energy found me first. This article was published few months ago and talks about billionaire T. Boone Pickens’s plan of building the world’s largest wind farm. Pickens is [...]
Dec 13, 2009
China Solar Panel Maker Sets First U.S. Plant The largest solar panel installation is at Nellis Air Force Base in Nevada. It was produced by China’s Suntech Power, and it accounts for about a third of the 15 megawatt solar farm. Suntech is part of the largest, fast-growing global solar market due to its price [...]
Nov 27, 2009
This week’s chapter reading is on Globalization, Innovation and the 21st Century Organizational Trends, and one of the biggest trends in this current time is social networking sites. According to an article on PC World, Facebook is dominating the social networking sites. I have always been a fan of the Facebook social networking site, especially [...]
Nov 26, 2009
You can’t just throw your electronic waste away. It contains several toxins and a number of reusable metals and plastics. In fact, in California it is illegal to simple toss the old computer/VCR/DVD player/etc into the trash bin. So what do you do to comply with the law? You keep your ear to the ground [...]
Nov 23, 2009
“HHS Delegates Authority for the HIPAA Security Rule to Office for Civil Rights” This article is about the HIPPA, Health Insurance Portability and Accountability Act, and how it will need to be more productive in keeping patient’s personal information confidential. The rule was sent to the OCR, Office for Civil Rights to be discussed upon. [...]
Nov 22, 2009
Innovation deals with the application of new methods, technologies, and equipment. The result of innovation is often an invention. Time decided the 50 best inventions of 2009. The invention the topped the list was Nasa’s Ares Rocket. It makes us able to travel farther than ever thought possible in space becasue of its light design. [...]
Nov 19, 2009
In Steve Mollman’s article, “Solar gadgets for when you’re on the go,” Mollman discusses the different types of portable solar devices that utilize the sun’s power to generate energy for the tiny devices. One such device acts as charger able to use on the go, called the Kinesis K3 from Kinesis Industries in Arizona. The [...]
Nov 19, 2009
The article related to many new “green” products that are becoming available. Most of these products are chargers for small devices. These products use solar power to charge small electronics. The company Better Energy Systems developed a stand alone charger five years ago. This charger was used out in the wild to charge electronics. It [...]
Nov 19, 2009
I studied a lot of benefits and challenges of global business in this chapter. As global markets increase and international firms grow, we need to think about the environment on our planet. The manufacture, management, use, and disposal of information technology can damage to the environment and it is a corporation’s responsibility. These days the [...]
Nov 19, 2009
Dell is looking to join the smart phone industry with the release of their new phone called the Mini 3. The Mini 3 will be similar to Google’s Android phone. I think that this is obviously a great business decision for Dell. Dell has become a well known computer company in the last decade. And [...]
Nov 19, 2009
I read an article on CNet titled, “Survey: Do small businesses use social networks”. This article said that in a survey conducted in August of 500 small businesses (meaning having less then 100 employees) 76 percent of them said they saw no benefit in using social networks. Out of those surveyed 86 percent had never [...]
Nov 19, 2009
Chapter 12 in the Baltzan and Phillips text focuses on globalization, innovation and the newest trends in information technology as they pertain to businesses attempting to operate on a global level. Innovation for the sake of innovation is pointless and potentially destructive, however, innovation with a purpose geared toward a practical business solution can be [...]
Nov 19, 2009
Hyundai Engineering and Construction has been making serious progress in globalization, along with their market at home. When CEO Kim Joong-kyum took over the comapny at the beginning of 2009, the company was suffering in both the global and local markets. Many of their overseas projects were on hold due to the financial crisis. Orders [...]
Nov 19, 2009
This article is about Sony’s announcement that they will be opening an online store front, similar to that of the iTunes store, which they will use to sell music, movies, books, applications, and other digitical content. It has been suggested by Sony’s analysts that their best hope for increasing their fortune is to impliment [...]
Nov 19, 2009
This article is about the going green that is definitely nowadays trends. We can learn through the textbook that business industries try to innovate in everything and enhance the going green and social networks. According to this article, one of the most important topics among business people is how to increase profits by being environmentally [...]
Nov 19, 2009
The Newsweek article, “ Now Green Means Business” talks about how companies are taking steps toward saving money by reserving energy and staying green. “U.S. companies led by behemoths such as General Electric, Wal-Mart, Google, Dupont Chemical and others have been launching new green initiatives. These two realities—of the largest companies in the world adopting [...]
Nov 19, 2009
Flush with cash, credit, and the ambition to become global players, leading Chinese firms are taking advantage of the fear stock markets in America and Europe to increase their international presence. In the last few months, the China Market Research Group, has conducted more than 500 interviews with senior executives from 100 leading Chinese companies [...]
Nov 19, 2009
This article is called the “Perils of Outsourcing,” it discusses a story of a business owner who chose to outsource his web design and the plan backfired in its results. Last year, a business man, Fan Bi, opened a web business that manufactured men’s shirts with the ability to create a custom label. Bi had [...]
Nov 18, 2009
APC is a known face in the world of servers and protection in the computer world. In this article is talks about how they plan to put a new technology out there. It is known as UPS. It stands for Uninterruptible power supply system. This system is to offer better ways to conserve energy and [...]
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