Chief Technology Officer of the United States

Founded in 1963, Comcast had an exceptional year in 2016. Stocks reached an all-time high, while revenue, assets, and operating cash flow toppled analysts’ projections. The global media and technology company has two primary businesses: Comcast Cable and NBCUniversal. These two businesses make up the five reportable business segments which are: cable communications, cable networks, broadcast television, filmed entertainment, and theme parks. Below is the revenue, operating income before…

When you think of the words “urban guerrilla” what are the first things that come to mind? In addition to those words, what are the first thoughts that come to mind when you see “out of the mountains”? These are the keywords that stood out to me when picking this book to read. With not having any prior knowledge of either of these two phrases, my mind began to wonder when I initially glanced over the title of this book. Let’s start with the phrase “urban guerrilla”. Carlos Marighella, a…

Verizon Verizon is a large firm that employees more than 188,000 people. The organization provides the United States with wireless network coverage, broadband fiber optic network, security, global internet networks and services, and video and advertising. The organizational structure of the company is a CEO with Executives underneath who cover all departments of the organization. Verizon is a rather stable company, but most recently they have been interested in the expansion of their FIOS…

The key facts and critical issues of JonBenet Ramsey's death, in my opinion, on December 26, 1996, a little girl by the name of JonBenet Ramsey was mysteriously murdered in her parent’s home located in Boulder, Colorado. JonBenet Ramsey was a beauty pageant queen born to John and Patsy Ramsey in Atlanta, Georgia on August 6, 1990. JonBenet was six at the time of her murder. (Safestein, 2015) She was hit in the head with a blunt object and strangled to her death. According to the autopsy report,…

He states “Dogs are gray wolves… the wide variety in their adult morphology probably results from the simple changes in developmental rate and timing”(Schwarts). After the conducted study, the analysis proved that “gray wolves and dogs vary by just 0.2 percent…

concentrate throughout the industry. In addition, adverse weather conditions may affect the supply of other agricultural commodities from which key ingredients for our products are derived. For example, drought conditions in certain parts of the United States may negatively affect the supply of corn, which in turn may result in shortages and higher prices for HFCS. An increase in the cost, a sustained interruption in the supply, or a shortage of some of these ingredients, other raw materials,…

retail, worldwide marketplace, auction place Background/History Ebay was founded in 1995 to create a platform for the sale of goods and services by community individuals and businesses. It was founded by Pierre Omidyar who immigrated to the United States from Paris when he was six. He graduated with Computer Science degree from Tufts University in 1988. He married Pam who has a pretty unusual hobby, collecting and trading Pez candy dispenser. When his wife complained about how difficult it is…

classmate or from the internet. But, is it more difficult to cheat in a public school or a virtual one? Technology today has made it fairly easy to do in both. Online schools revolve solely around internet use. Clifford Stoll, an astronomer and computer systems administrator, claims “Computer-enabled students spend more time preening their reports than understanding the subject matter.”(Technology and Society, pg. 71). Students who are on a computer all day for classes will get side tracked…

may seem like a medical miracle. A cure for cancer, HIV, and other genetic disorders? How would one even receive genetic treatment with CRISPR, more scientifically recognized as CRISPR-Cas9? In the United States, you won’t. All genetic therapies are regulated by the FDA, and despite having the technology to perform therapy trials, the FDA has not begun to start human trials…

addedinnovative industry). In this group, we selected China, Costa Rica, Malaysia,Mexico and the Republic of Korea for investigation. The economic development in India followed socialist-inspired policies for most of its independent history, including state-ownership of many sectors; India's per capita income increased at only around 1% annualized rate in the three decades after Independence.[1] Since the mid-1980s, India has slowly opened up its markets through economic liberalization. After…