Preparing for the Google IPO: A revolution in the making Wenying Li‚ Xue Lin‚ Yankai Wang October 28‚ 2014 Upon deciding to raise capital for operations and growth‚ a company looks into preparing an initial public offering to get access to capital market. Unlike other companies following conventional IPO processes‚ Google‚ the largest search engine company‚ revolutionized equity markets with unconventional price-setting mechanism‚ reduced role for the underwriters‚ and dual-class shareholder structure
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1) Discuss competition in the search engine industry. Which of the five competitive forces seems strongest? Weakest? What is your assessment of overall industry attractiveness? In order to assess the potential for profit in any industry‚ Porter’s Five Forces analysis can be applied as an important tool. a) Rivalry among Competitors * Rivalry among search engine firms is Very Strong. Google has an 80% market share in the search industry with several rivals. The competition
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Describe Google ’s business model. What strategies has Google relied upon to build competitive advantage in the industry? The Google business model is one built around its primary business of licensing fees for supplying search functions to corporate clients and content-targeting advertising. The company utilizes its popular internet search engine to match Google advertisers with Internet users. It targets advertising to search results which are more likely to attract potential customers. The
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competition in the search engine industry. Which of the five competitive forces seems strongest? Weakest? What is your assessment of overall industry attractiveness? Google constantly has to maneuver to improve their services‚ and stay ahead of other competitors. Google also faces low switching cost which increases rivalry among competitors: o Name recognition‚ image o Services provided o Relationship with Internet users‚ web sites‚ & advertisers o Relevancy of a search results the
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capabilities? What competitive liabilities and resource weaknesses does it have? What opportunities exist? What threats to its continued success are present? The key resources and competitive capabilities of the search industry are due to the huge company’s success. For instance‚ Google gains the trust of users through reliable‚ accurate searches and a clear distinction of upfront advertisements in searches. Therefore‚ the online business user’s can do their work in minimum physical locations and
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2 Products and services to users 3 Products and services 3 Huge effort for the web 5 Google Analytics 5 Analysis Tools 5 Content Analytics 5 Social Analytics 6 Mobile Analytics 6 Conversion Analytics 6 Advertising Analytics 6 S.W.O.T Analysis and Finance 6 Strengths 7 Weaknesses 7 Opportunities 7 Threats 8 Competitors 8 Conclusion 8 References 9 Introduction Google is a play on the word googol. A googol is a very large number that 1 followed by 100 zeroes
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Q.: How do social networking sites work? What has contributed to their immense popularity? A.: The first phase of the Web was all about content publishing by “experts”‚ without any possibility of interaction between user and author. The second phase of the Web‚ Web 2.0‚ is defined by social media tools‚ which support social interactions and connections with people‚ as well as collaboration and sharing‚ and the creation of user-generated content. This was the major change that allowed the beginning
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Technology 315 Google‚ Apple‚ and Microsoft Struggle for Your Internet Experience CASE STUDY r w ’ I I are in an epic struggle to dominate your ‚ n what looks like a college food fight‚ the three Internet titans-Google‚ Microsoft and Apple- can listen to music and watch videos 24/7? It’s no surprise‚ then‚ that today s tech titans are so aggressively battling for control of this brave new ’ Internet experience. What’s at stake is where you search‚ buy‚ find your music
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20100599 Lecturer : Dr .Mary Agoyi The Google 1. How is Google’s mission statement related to its business strategy? Google is an organization that provide information to the world in which it can be accessible easily and letting people make use of the information and to make the world’s information universally accessible and useful. Google is always takes risk‚ because they really want to expand their market size so that it can reach the world. 2. How does Google’s information systems strategy
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Microsoft’s search‚ portal‚ advertising and personal communications services‚ including online information offerings such as Bing and the MSN portals and channels. Server and Tools Business: Microsoft infrastructure software‚ developer tools and cloud platform‚ including products such as Windows Server‚ SQL Server‚ Visual Studio‚ System Center and the Windows Azure Platform. Microsoft Business Solutions: A portfolio of Microsoft Dynamics products and services‚ as well as Microsoft Health Solutions
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