...10/26/2012 The Positive Aspects Of Online Reading Far Outweigh The Negative Aspects. Many people today are suspicious of certain changes the rapid advancement of technology has brought about… especially modern man’s growing dependence on the Internet. This reaction is nothing new historically, for there have been alarmists at every turning point in human progress. In Nicholas Carr’s article, “IS GOOGLE MAKING US STIPID?” the author voices this same fear. He writes, “When we read online…….we tend to become mere decoders of information.” Carr shares this argument with Maryanne Wolf, a psychologist at Tufts University and author of “Proust and the Squid: The Story and Science of the reading Brain”. Carr’s primary concern is that physical changes to the human brain are caused by heavy use of online technology such as Google. He focuses only on changes to a single aspect of brain function, but these changes may not be even as harmful as he fears. While he did good research, and there is no question about his facts, this paper argues that the positive aspects of online reading far outweigh the negative aspects. Speaking at Asheville-Buncombe Technical Community College on September 28, 2012, Nicholas Carr was quick to acknowledge that Google and the Internet have made many positive contributions to modern life. As a vast and readily available source of information, the Internet has greatly benefited education in particular. Carr’s main concern is that the minds...
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...reported performance of Google Incorporated’s, I will provide a detailed analysis of Google’s financial information. In addition, I will describe Google as a publicly traded company in the United States and explain its current financial situation (please see Appendix for financial statements). This description will include information on the company’s business goals, its operations, locations, markets and line of business. Then I will assess Google’s vulnerability to specific financial threats as well as explain how certain financial trends will influence future financial performance. Lastly, I will analyze the company’s stock and determine how it will perform in future periods. Google Incorporated is a global technology company that helps people to connect information from various locations around the world. Larry Page and Sergey Brin founded Google Inc. in 1998. The company was incorporated on September of the same year. Google’s initial public offering was 19,605,052 shares of Class A common stock. This initial public offering took place on August 18, 2004. Google Inc. has revolutionized how the internet is used and perceived. Google’s main source of revenue is advertising and most of this business comes from the United States. They have several different aspects to their business. It started with the simple www.google.com search engine. Now Google has an email service, mapping and directions site, various applications, and other aspects. One aspect is Gmail. Gmail was launched...
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...MGT 448 Week 4 Individual Assignment Google in China: Case Study MGT 448 Google in China: Case Study China and Google have not seen eye to eye lately. the element of defending human rights or complying with the Chinese Government has placed Google with a decision to choose between the two . This paper will examine the case study, Google in China, and answer the following questions: What advantages and disadvantages does Google have in the Chinese market in comparison with Baidu? What is the business model of each company? And what factors should Google have considered in reaching its decision on the new approach in China? Advantages and Disadvantages for Google in the Chinese Market Advantages that Google has over Baidu in the Chinese market include the public having access to un-censored search terms, Google’s AdWords and AdSense technology, and its partnership with China Mobile. Google also offers attractive applications such as “Picasa Web Album, Google Docs, Google Talk, Google Calendar and Google Checkout” (Yin & Yulin, 2010, p. 2). Some of Google’s services include “Google Earth, Google Hot List, Q&A and a free legal music download service” (Yin & Yulin, 2010, p. 3). In comparison with Baidu, Google does have some disadvantages which include its suspended “ability to search through foreign websites and its associative-word search function”, its criticism from Chinese Regulators and bad publicity from Chinese writers accusing the company of copyright...
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...Pamela Carvalho Flavia Tamayo English 101 January 23rd 2016 The Internet is Not Dumbing Us Down Nicholas Carr, the technology writer laments the rise of the internet in our lives in his article, “Is Google Making Us Stupid?” published in 2008. Carr compares reading on the internet with the printed version and comes into the conclusion that reading through the internet is basically the shallower form of reading. Starting his article describing his problems by describing new technologies to be “chipping away my capacity for concentration and contemplacing”.(Carr 236) Because of the internet, he is unable to keep his focus on reading any books or long articles. Therefore, affirming that the long term use of the internet is harmful for concentration and contemplation, consequently affecting people to become dumber and digitals fools. Fortunately, that is not true. Internet is not making people dumb, it has rather changed the object of focus. Knowledge now is moving from one room to the hyperlink medium, from content to connections and from libraries to network. In other words, it is not wrong to say that we are in fact truly getting smarter with the increadible amount of informations available in the internet. Nicholas Carr says that from the past few years, he has been feeling an uncomfortable sense that his way of thinking when reading has changed with the excess use of the internet, claiming: “My mind now expects to take in information the ...
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...GOOGLE IN CHINA CASE STUDY Introduction Currently Google faces major issues regarding its operation in China. Google has been faced with the decision to comply with Chinese government regulation and censor its search engine results or take on the human rights approach of freedom of speech and eliminate censorship of searched terms. This paper will examine the case study, Google in China, and answer the following questions: What advantages and disadvantages does Google have in the Chinese market in comparison with Baidu? What is the business model of each company? And what factors should Google have considered in reaching its decision on the new approach in China? What advantages and disadvantages does Google have in the Chinese market in comparison with Baidu? Advantages that Google has over Baidu in the Chinese market include the public having access to un-censored search terms, Google’s AdWords and AdSense technology, and its partnership with China Mobile. Google also offers attractive applications such as “Picasa Web Album, Google Docs, Google Talk, Google Calendar and Google Checkout”. Some of Google’s services include “Google Earth, Google Hot List, Q&A and a free legal music download service”. In comparison with Baidu, Google does have some disadvantages which include its suspended “ability to search through foreign websites and its associative-word search function”, its criticism from Chinese Regulators and bad publicity from Chinese writers accusing the company...
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...The Safety of a Self-driving Car With the rise of technology dedicated to self-driving cars, people are asking the question "how safe are driverless cars compare to a traditional car?" First of all, to drive a self-driving car functioning by a computer or robot, the driver has to learn to control the functions. In 2011, a Google self-driving car was involved in an accident, and Google stated to the press that the driver was responsible for the driving. However, many critics became to question whether the technology behind the self-driving car are responsible for the accident. In the recent years, self-driving cars are tested on the road in several different states, and for the last years or so, Google had tested more than “700,000 miles” of accident-free driving from a driverless car. With self-driving cars, what are the obligations the operator have to make? If companies like Google, were to sell hundreds of thousands of these cars on the road, are they able to keep up the safety standard in a large number? The technology will also force regulators to rethink the car and driver relationship, and possibly place more emphasis on the regulation both the car and the driver. For instance, instead of certifying that a driver can pass a road test, the state might certify that a car can pass a test, upending the traditional drivers’ licensing system. In addition, the state of mind when you are for example, drunk, are you allow to operate a self-driving car? Due to the promising...
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...reveals the story of Marissa Mayer’s life and work experiences at Google and how she dealt with different challenges confronting Google, specifically the gender issue which is the crucial point of the case. She was able to identify the problems and offered creative solutions. She was striving to bring more females into the field of technology and to Google in order to balance the working atmosphere and to create an environment where women and men can equally share their ideas. We will point out and analyze the major issues presented in the Marissa Mayer’s case, and evaluate how effective her ideas were and how the need for integrating women into the workforce will become beneficial to Google. She said, “…I think you build a better product for a mixed gender audience if you have a mixed gender team.” Marissa Mayer was also very successful at advocating the empowerment of women inside and outside of Google. She was calling all the young girls to embrace their inner geek, and promising them that they can stay “feminine” working in the technology field. Identification Google is one of the fastest-growing companies in the world which had turned a $1.5 million investment into $209 billion and had never encountered any problems recruiting the best of the best, but what appeared to be a major problem at Google is the small fraction of women engineers. Marissa Mayer, who holds a very important position at Google, believed it was a missed opportunity and that it was a recruitment...
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...Cherry Chinese name: Zhu Yuanyuan Google and Government of China A Case Study in Cross-Culture Negotiations 1. Who are the stakeholders in this case? * The owner, the shareholders and the employees of Google * The internet users * The biggest rival of engine market Baidu and other enterprises * The China government 2. What are the important issues for each set of stakeholders? * For Google itself: Google employees will be unable to work in China; This was also reflected in the stock and other areas. After the incident, the Google shares fell, the company earnings will directly affect to the global strategy. * For the internet users: Google quit from China made such adverse impact, and it’s harmful to China's international image, in the search engine industry, there has no competition, users can only use Baidu. * For Baidu: We all know Baidu is China's largest search engine company, after Google's withdrawal, No competition will make Baidu's growth rate reduced. So it has good and bad effects to Baidu's development. On one hand, Baidu can enhance its own competitiveness, the market share and the stock go up rapidly. but on the other hand, Baidu's ills on the lack of creativity are manifested. * The influence of the government: Google quit from China, the most influential image is China's investment environment. Originally foreign invest in China have been very troublesome, if even Google---such a well-known high-tech companies...
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...has obviously given us huge impacts in many aspects including in Education. Today’s students are all lucky since they are all born in high-technology era with numerous of gadgets and things to ease their lives. It is undeniable that Internet has helped us in many ways consistently with the modernised people in this modernisation ages. However, is the education today relies on Internet merely? Is today’s students are too lazy that they trained their brains to take whatever they learned, without the urges to find more? Well, an Irish poet, William Butler Yeats once said, “Education is not the filling of a pail, but the lighting of a fire.” which indicates today’s phenomenon, where many students seems to seek for shortcuts in searching for answers rather than using their minds to be creative in finding solutions. Are you a part of that people? In this case, I am strongly believed that Google Translate is not the best alternative to improve students’ English skills. How many of you used to use Google Translate while doing your assignments? Is anybody here have not used it even once? So today, let me show you why do I believe that Google Translate is not the best alternative for us. Let me give you a picture of the impacts of using Google Translate. BODY First and foremost, students have high degree of tendency to rely merely on Google Translate in understanding and doing assignments. This is due to the fact that they know Google Translate may help them that they would not...
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...Google Ford Nicole Edun MGT/312 March 16, 2015 Professor B.D. Boardman From Ex To Next Did you know that Google is the best place to work in California? (Cracking into Google, 2015) Boasting twelve week maternity and paternity leaves, onsite gyms and onsite medical facilities—Google is one of the most sought out after gigs receiving millions of job applications during their hiring seasons. (Cracking into Google, 2015) Now the newest Board of Directors at Google is Alan Mulally, ex-CEO of Ford Motor Company. The keyword there is “ex”. So how does an ex-CEO become a Director at one of the most coveted companies? Well, the reason why Mr. Mulally was able to move from one top organization to another is because of his exceptional work habits. Mulally was very instrumental at Ford Motor Company. Teamwork Makes The Dream Work When former Boeing Exec, Mulally, began his short career at Ford, they were on the verge of bankruptcy. (Why Ford, 2015) Mulally started his renonvation by assessing his team and its operations. He quickly realized that one of the issues at hand was the lack of cohesiveness on his team. Many of his team members were not used to reporting their performance or even working together and, in turn, were very resistant to the changes to be made—some even deeming Mulally’s changes to come as a “waste of time”. (Ex-Ford, 2015) Mulally started hosting mandatory, 7am weekly meetings where managers had to report performance in color codes. Red was for plans that...
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..., peoples enjoy their continuous education for improve their get better job to improve their living standard, OUHK affect by this factor due to proportion of students. Legal – it will restrict the OUHK operation, development, administrative apply, strategy…etc, because organization need to follow legal in order to avoid problems or if Hong Kong legislation only eight work hours for a day, therefore, employees have more freedom time to spend on their education, so the demand of course will increase. Global environment – The analysis can be done with the help OUHK make a checklist that evaluates every criteria of a segment. In this manner, the status of the global environment shall be defined. In general, every segment needs to be worked on systematically to recognize changes. Then, the factors and its impacts can be interpreted right. After the segmentation, the analysis consists of four further steps:, Environmental Scanning, Environmental Monitoring, Environmental Forecasting and Environmental Assessment Conclusion, general environment is very important for every organization , the management should pay attention to the environment and good problems solving when facing change. 2. Mission Statement: A written declaration of an organization's core purpose and focus that normally remains unchanged over time. Properly crafted mission statements (1) serve as filters to separate what is important from what is not, (2) clearly state which...
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...1. Define and compare the business models and areas of strength of Apple, Google, and Microsoft. Apple: Its business model focuses on centralized control of almost all aspects of its hardware and software. It believes smartphones and tablets should have proprietary standards and be tightly controlled. It only allows apps from its App store, that have been vetted by the company, to be loaded to its products. Apple has a very loyal user base that has steadily grown and most likely will stay with Apple products in the future. Google: Its business model has always focused on the Internet and the Web. It began as one of many search engines. It quickly ran away from the pack with its copyrighted PageRank search algorithm which returns superior search results for Web users. It also has developed extensive online advertising services for businesses of all sizes. Google provides value to the user by using an inexpensive, flexible infrastructure to speed up Web searches and provide its users with a vast array of Web-based services and software tools. Microsoft: Its business model originally focused on the desktop computer running the Windows operating system and Office desktop productivity applications. The company and its products are staples for businesses and consumers looking to improve their productivity with computer-based tasks. While it is trying to expand its presence on the Internet, it still must try to keep customers bound to the desktop computer. 2. Why is mobile...
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...TEAMWORK AND MOTIVATION Teamwork and Motivation Debbie Brown Dr. Keith A. Graves Leadership and Organizational Behavior - BUS 520 May 20, 2014 Google Company Google is a search engine composed of billons of websites. The corporation specializes in internet related services and products which include cloud computing, advertising programs in text ads, and media ads (Page, 2014). The organization was founded by Larry and Sergey Brin and employs more than 40,000 (Page, 2014). Their corporate culture reflects a philosophy that you can “take money without doing evil” and that work should be challenging and the challenge should be fun” (Page, 2014). Their mission is to organize the world’s information and make it universally accessible and useful (Page, 2014). The company is high- energy, and has a fast pace work environment; however, they are known to be one of the best places to work at. Google Organization Culture The organization culture is revealed through their hiring practices, communication processes, leadership behavior translated into their daily habits throughout the workplace. Google principle is “trust” Their business is premises on the fact that “if we trust the people (who search the internet), they will lead us to the relevant stuff” (Page, 2014). The company is primarily organized to drive innovation. Google embodies the team orientation primary characteristic of organizational culture. Employees are allowed the freedom to be creative in problem solving...
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...linking would also be a top priority of mine. Storming: empowering each employee will help me solidify a strong commitment to the group. Will stress being ethical and share my ideas often. I will consider each opinion without bias. I would encourage conflict until it reaches a point where productivity decreases. Norming: Collaboration is the key to success. Keeping everyone involved and on track is one of the most important factors to increasing productivity. I need to make it clear that each team member has specific responsibilities to the group. Performing: Rebuilding commitment includes rewarding positive employees, teaching new skills, and sharing roles in new and exciting ways. 3) Conflict can be a positive or negative aspect depending on how it is used in an organization. Conflict can be bad if clashes of personalities or role conflict occur. Mainly because most of the time there is no solid solution to a complex problem. Conflict can be positive if controversy exists. It is much easier to solve this type of problem. Personal and role...
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...GOOGLE SELF-DRIVEN CAR THESIS NAME: INSTITUTION: COURSE PREFIX: COURSE NUMBER: DATE OF SUBMISSION: 1. INTRODUCTION 1.1 GOOGLE SELF-DRIVEN CAR The Google self-driven car is an automated car that operates automatically with no physical human input. It is a project developed by Google Company that involves the development of technology in automated vehicles mostly the electric type of vehicles. The software responsible for the management of the vehicle in its operations is the Google chauffeur. The project is under the management of a Google engineer Sebastian Thrun. He is an experienced engineer who previously worked for the former director in the Stanford Artificial Intelligence Laboratory. In addition, he previously worked as a co-inventor of the Google Street view. The development of the robotic vehicle was first showcased in 2005 in the DARPA Grand Challenge where it won the award. There was an able team of 15 engineers who developed the system in collaboration with the Google Company. Some included Chris Urmson, Mike Montemerlo and lastly Anthony Levandowski, involved in the DARPA Grand and Urban Challenges (Thrun, 2010). In the technological point of view, the automated Google vehicles comprise of parts and equipment that are worth 150000 dollars inclusive of the 70000 dollars for the LiDAR system. It possesses a range finder strategically placed on the top part of the vehicle called the Velodyne...
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