Is Google Making Us Dumb? Nicholas Carr makes his point‚ Google is making us dumb‚ very clear. Carr noticed it himself. He realizes that his mind works differently when it comes to reading. Carr can’t focus on lengthy articles. After two or three lines his mind drifts away from the article and his mind tries to find something else to do. He says that this all happened from looking for information on the internet for over a decade‚ reading emails‚ scanning headlines‚ reading blog posts
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make a stock offering. Initial public offerings (IPOs) have historically had very large initial first day gains com- pared to the performance of the rest of the market. Historically‚ IPOs were underpriced by roughly 16% according to an industry expert at Stein‚ Roe & Fonham. However‚ in recent months‚ some IPOs have seen first day run- ups of as much as 200 to 400 percent‚ and the trend for the future is likely to increase. Differences between the IPO offering price and the first day closing price
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In his essay “Is google making us stupid” Nicholas Carr explains how the internet has helped us to gather vast amounts of information very quick‚ but also how it has affected our attention span when the time comes to read long pieces of texts. Carr also feels that our brains are constantly getting rewired due to the amount of time we spend online has caused him to lose concentration when he is reading. Besides‚ make it easier to find information and rewiring our brains the internet has changed the
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In Nicholas Carr’s article‚ Is Google Making Us Stupid?‚ Carr asserts his belief that because of the huge supply of information on the internet‚ the internet is causing our brains to adjust to reading‚ making it difficult to focus on the information and read deeply. Carr explains his belief by providing us with multiple experiences across the web by bloggers and researchers who have begun to study online habits‚ stating that they have noticed that they skim articles online‚ going to hyperlinks
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themselves strapped for cash. Netscape would definitely fall into this category as it increasing felt the pressure and loss of market-share to a growing number of competitors. Many companies find it desirable to "go public" with an initial public offering (IPO) when their equity capital needs increase to the point where the opportunity cost of remaining private and compensating investors for the lack of liquidity becomes too great relative to the lower coat of capital derived from liquid public markets (Netscape
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in one thing that you cannot be aware of your surroundings. In “Is Google Making Us Stupid” and “The Deepening Page” by Nicholas Carr the author explains the rise in value of undistracted reading and the how technology took away that skill but brought us closer to our primal way of thinking. Reading is an abnormal skill that takes training and practice. It is not something humans are born knowing how to do. In “Is Google Making Us Stupid” Carr states
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TRX‚ INC.: Initial Public Offering INTRODUCTION OF SOME SORT IPOs are not sure things; therefore‚ when considering going public‚ one of the most important things to look at is the company’s future growth potential. Investors need the comfort of good future returns before they buy stock. The potential for growth at TRX exists‚ especially in moving away from customer-care‚ but the continuous reporting of negative net income poses a problem. Potential buyers will be wary to invest in a company that
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The Internet Takeover The piece‚ “Is Google Making us Stupid?”‚ by Nicholas Carr provides an interesting view from a writer’s perspective of his change in processing information due to the growing digital world. He reflects on how the internet has made his life easier but also caused his attention span to shorten. He believes that while the internet is very helpful‚ it is changing the way people think. Carr relates his struggles to those of many of his intellectual colleagues and how it has changed
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In Is Google Making Us Stupid?‚ Nicholas Carr argues that people are more interested in instant gratification when they take in information than they are in critically thinking about it. He states that people adapt very quickly to new technologies and incorporate aspects of said technologies into their perception of the world‚ so inventions such as the computer‚ which are developed for the purpose of fast rapid information transfer‚ influence the rate at which people evaluate information. It is more
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The Blackstone IPO 1. If you were a fund LP how would you view the structure Blackstone has put in place to go public? IPO offered Blackstone certain advantages: - Access to the capital markets‚ as a new source of funds. - Blackstone could also use its own stock for the acquisitions. - It changed compensation structure and provided more incentives to junior management and help to keep top employees motivated long-term. Blackstone decided to adopt the MLP
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