As the protectors of the citizen’s of the United States, the FBI felt they were obligated to access the data on Syed Farook, one of the San Bernardino terrorists through any means necessary, even by force. They believed that information such as motives or possible accomplices may be hidden on the iPhone 5C and access to that will potentially allow them to capture other perpetrators or perhaps even prevent future terror attacks. After two months of failing to gain access to the iPhone in…
find this information online through questionable sources such as the website MacWorld which has always been more of a forum site then a regular and trusted OSX fan site to me. This is because it is a proven and often restated fact that Apple Computer Inc. has been notoriously possessive and controlling when it comes to the reparability and the ability to upgrade their products. This repeatedly leads to many people walking to the Microsoft Store which is just a…
Owner of Loew’s Inc, Marcus Loew, would not have been able to survive the studio era without the help of his later newly-acquired production chief, Irving Thalberg. Marcus Loew met Thalberg through the merger between Loew’s Inc and its two acquired financially failing studios – Metro (1920) and Goldwyn (1924), with Louis B. Mayer’s studio to form Metro-Goldwyn Mayer (MGM)…
Under the Microscope - The Strategic Capabilities and Culture of DesignTech, Inc. DesignTech, Inc. is a start-up company in the Silicon Valley in Half Moon Bay not far from San Francisco Bay. The company is not exactly geographically part of Silicon Valley but was culturally part of Silicon Valley. Design Tech had top-tier investors, an experienced executive team, and a strategically sound business plan. Engineers sent in their resumes and cautious investors lined up wanted to be part of this…
Corning Incorporated is an innovative company with a wide array of products, selling specialty ceramicist, glasses, and other like products worldwide. Corning’s market is segmented into Display Technologies, Telecommunications, Environmental Technologies, Specialty Materials, and Life Sciences. Examples would include Gorilla Glass in cell phones, lab equipment, acoustic material for loud and powerful car, fiber optics, cooking ware, and much more. Growth has been fairly consistent regarding this…
Greenbax Enterprise Inc. is the parent company that holds ownership of these 19 grocery stores and a number of other business related assets such as real estate ventures and ownership interests in a water bottling company. Greenbax Enterprise conducted an independent investigation…
My research this week focuses on the case study of Apple Inc., and the strategic development of a multibillion-dollar organization, (Paroutis, Heracleous, & Angwin, 2013). Owner and co-founder Steve Jobs was instrumental in taking a company that was on the verge of bankruptcy and make it into a thriving billion-dollar company. Steve Jobs was a leader who was not only innovative but also a perfectionist. His passion for Apple was unsurpassed, which was reflected in his dedication and…
curve. During his 10 year time off, Jobs created another shared vision within selected few of his team members from Apple and created the NeXT operating system. Thus leaving Apple in 1985 to begin a new hardware and software enterprise called NeXT, Inc. The NeXT system was designed for the Lisa computers which made Jobs a little richer. However, that still wasn’t enough for him. The following year Jobs purchased an animation company from George Lucas,…
The 2009 documentary, Orgasm Inc., exposes pharmaceutical companies responsible for falsely advertising the so-called disease “Female Sexual Dysfunction (FSD)”. The film is about the companies and entrepreneurs who are trying to convince women that it's a physiological problem if they don't climax every time they have sex, that can be "fixed" with pills or creams. Canner asks the questions: Is "female sexual dysfunction" really a disorder or a genius marketing stroke? And could the products that…
(Yaprak, 2012). 3. Case study Case analysis #2: Apple in China Background Apple Inc. is an American multinational corporation, which designs, manufactures and sells personal computers, consumer electronics and software, and provides related services. The company has experienced a tremendous growth from 2001 when it has introduced its iPod mp3 player (Jurevicius, 2013). Apple Inc. is considered to be the most successful electronics company in the world. Internal environment analysis –…