Strengths1) Facebook ’s head count was just under 4‚000 employees‚ which is up 50% from last year.2) Facebook’s monthly active users grew 29% from last year to 955 million users. | Weaknesses1) Net loss $157 million overall.2) FB’s IPO fizzled on a combination of technical glitches and overhyped expectations.3) Costs and expenses nearly tripled from a year ago to $1.93 billion due to $1.3 billion of stock-based compensation and related payroll expenses.4) Facebook is struggling to meet
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objectives. Apple through its innovative hardware‚ software‚ peripherals‚ and services aims to be a continued leader at bringing the best user experience to its customers. With its unique ability of designing and developing its own operating systems‚ hardware‚ application software‚ and services‚ Apple provides its customers with new products and solutions with ease-of-use‚ seamless integration‚ and innovative design. The Company has various products like the iPhone‚ iPad‚ Mac‚ Apple TV‚ and Operating
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Current situation of Virgin Atlantic Airways Virgin Atlantic Airways is a British airline owned by Richard Branson’s Virgin Group. In December 1999 the Virgin Group decided to sell 49% of the airlines company to Singapore Airlines‚ which means that Virgin still owns the majority consisting of 51%. In 2006 Virgin Atlantic carried 4.9 million passengers placing them in seventh place amongst UK airlines. One of the main rivals of Virgin is British Airways whom have been in bitter rivalry ever since
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YEDITEPE UNIVERSITY The Current Situation of Wind Energy in Turkey By ERDİNÇ EKŞİ COMPUTER ENGINEERING AFE 158 YELİZ KELEŞ 04.05.2014 Table of Contents: 1. Abstract 2. Introduction 3. Findings 3.1. Benefits of wind energy and its effects on environment 3.1.1. Dependence of foreign countries 3.1.2. Ease of installation 3.2. Future role of wind energy in Turkey 3.2.1. Mixed system that contains wind energy with solar energy 3.2.2. Current wind turbine condition monitoring methodologies
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several grants and honours. Both authors have an immense amount of experience and qualifications in the area of accounting. The accounting topics that are covered in this article are financial instruments and recognition‚ relevance‚ reliability and measurement. Objective of the article The recent financial crisis has led to a vigorous debate about the pro and cons of fair value accounting (FVA)‚ and this debate presents a major challenge for FVA going forward‚ Christian Laux and Christian
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Apple ’s financial performance continued to strengthen over the last several quarters. In the most recent earnings announcement‚ Apple reported significant growth in net revenues driven by the strong performance of its iPod product line. Net sales for the 2nd quarter grew to $4.36 billion‚ which is a 34% increase over 2nd quarter 2005 results. Net income increased by 41% to $410 million. (Apple Reports)The iPod product line continues to drive the financial performance of the company. In the 2nd quarter
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Assignment 6 Yajing Cao 1.Current Market Evaluation of Apple Inc. [pic] [pic] (Charts from Yahoo Finance and YCharts) From the charts above‚ we can find that Apple’s current PE is 16.7‚ much lower than its past five years’ average 23.32. Also‚ its PEG Ratio is 0.64‚ which is a very healthy one. What’s more‚ take Apple’s some key advantages into account: (1) Apple has a strong brand name‚ loyal customer base‚ and defensible installed base. (2) iPod is still a major traffic and revenue
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economy about 300 years ago. * In 1979‚ the situation started reverting by the advent of Prime Minister Margaret Thatcher. He helped UK to get rid of its “sick man of Europe” or simply the economic difficulty by breaking the existing unions and shredding them in the free market. * The 1990 recession had adversely affected the United Kingdom’s economy. There was 8% decline in the UK’s economy with increased unemployment. But this situation has got reverted in 1993 when the recession ended
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Bass Jeremy Staska Marketing 9:55 Dr. Davis November 21‚ 2008 Apple Inc. Company Analysis Part One: Analysis of Current Marketing Situation Introduction to Apple Inc. Apple Inc. is a company whose main objectives are “to design‚ manufacture and market personal computers and related software‚ peripherals and personal computing and communicating solutions” (“Wright Investors’ Service”). Originally known as Apple Computers Inc‚ Apple has ventured into several other areas besides that of computers
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FINANCIAL RATIO ANALYSIS Based on the table 1‚ it shows that the financial ratio was divided into four parts which are liquidity‚ assets management‚ long-term debt paying ability and profitability. Liquidity ratios are particularly interesting to short-term creditors and it is focus on current assets and current liability. In addition‚ General Thumb of rule for the current ratio should be at least 2:1. For the Gemini Electronic the current ratio is consistent and it is increase in year 2006. But
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