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Tuesday: Multimedia Production 2313 Being completely honest, on the first day of class I had no clue what to expect of this course. Just from the title and description of the course I was certain it would require technical and creative skills. Two things I do not have and after I read Dr. Matthews' email I knew this class would be intense, however, that did not intimidate me. Last semester was my most difficult semester. Last semester prepared me for this semester. From a freshman to a junior I…

Julius Randle. The Lakers managed to have a pretty decent off-season and on paper look to be an improvement but is that enough to say that they’re a playoff team? Kobe Bryant apparently thinks they are. In a recent interview done with Marc Spears of Yahoo Sports, Kobe was asked if he believed the Lakers could…

leading mobile marketplace and e-Commerce business in wholesale trade and retail as well as services such as providing a platform which enables merchants, consumers and other participants in conduct business in Alibaba’s network. Japan’s Softbank and Yahoo are the main stakeholders. In 1999, started with…

case of Google, its online ad network has continued to grow at a faster rate than its closest competitors, though Microsoft had the highest network growth in 2009 by 31%, but also Google was the second in growth by 13% from 8% in 2008 better than Yahoo with…

Hungary, co-founded Intel; both Jerry Yang of Yahoo and Steve Chen of YouTube came to the United States from Taiwan. According to United States Patent and Trademark Office immigrants invent things at twice the rate of native-born Americans. This shows that Immigrants are an important element in keeping the United States economy solid from small businesses to high tech industry; they are filling an inherent need in the labor-force. Imagine life without Yahoo, Google, YouTube, Intel, and…

resources are easily imitated by its competitors. This, as a result, only create temporary value. Lastly, eBay’s resources are easy to substitute due to the fact there are other options that customers can opt for, such as retailing and eBay’s competitors (Yahoo, Amazon,…

In Jonathan Swift’s, Gulliver’s Travels, Swift uses exaggeration to illustrate his true opinion on society and to structure the various major flaws that humanity is guilty of. For example, on page 245 Gulliver describes the Yahoos; “The Yahoos were known to hate one another more than they did any different species of animals; and the reason usually assigned was the odiousness of their shape, which all could see in the rest, but not in themselves.” This is Swift’s way of using exaggerations…

Universality is the ability to use one company’s hardware in combination with another company’s hardware. The idea of universality was supported by Apple co-founder Steve Wozniak who built his first computers for Apple, the Apple I and the Apple II, to be compatible with all other company’s data and connection types. Steve Wozniak’s feelings about openness are highlighted in an essay written by Tim Wu called “Father and Son” which also details how Wozniak’s partner Steve Jobs felt the complete…

In 2013 a National Security Agency (NSA) subcontractor, Edward Snowden sparked nationwide controversy after leaking top-secret surveillance information from the NSA to several media outlets. During his IT work for the NSA Snowden noticed the immense reach of NSA's everyday surveillance, so he began copying top-secret NSA documents and built a dossier on practices that he found invasive and unethical. His findings revealed that the NSA's surveillance programs were unconstitutional and infringed…

internet providers to speed up services for websites they favor and block down or slow down others, states Jhaan Elker. In the event that a consumer owns a certain network then they can choose to slow down another network. For example, Verizon who owns Yahoo, can decide to slow down other popular websites such as Google, Bing and etc. just because they…