From KaZaA to Skype By the year 2002‚ Niklas Zennstrom and Janus Friis not only invented KaZaA‚ but also entered the Internet telephony market known as Voice over Internet Protocol (VoIP) with their new service‚ Skype. Creators of KaZaA avoided the illegal trading issues that Napster had to deal with by creating a FastTrack Software. This enabled PCs logged on to KaZaA to find and share files with each other using supernodes. KaZaA could not be legalized for illegal trading since it kept no track
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1. Describe the environment in which Skype competes based on the three characteristics of high-tech markets (Chapter 1). Like most Hi-Tech products‚ Skype also has to deal with the three major uncertainties in the form of Market Uncertainty‚ Technological Uncertainty and Competitive Volatility. Market Uncertainty-(1) While Skype has a huge user base by now‚ there are still many people who are uncomfortable about using Skype due to security and quality concerns. (2)Due to proliferation of
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SKYPE Student Number: 10012274 Executive Summary This report provides an analysis and evaluation on defining Skype’s core business following eBay’s sale of the business. Methods of analysis include an external analysis compromising of consumer and competitor analysis as well as an internal SWOT analysis. The research draws attention to the fact that while Skype has the ability to reach critical user mass‚ it finds itself in a situation where it is no longer serving the needs of an e-commerce
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Skype‚ a global opportunity Table of contents Introduction 2 I. Skype Business strategy 3 a. Freemium Business model specificity 3 i. Model based on a free core service 3 ii. Skype’s performs with the individual segment‚ but drive revenues with the Corporate one. 5 iii. Competitors 7 iv. « URL stands for Ubiquity first‚ Revenues after » 8 b. Skype’s Development Strategy based on Partnerships 10 v. Skype facilitates partnerships 10 vi. Skype’s
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Disruptive technology is any new thing‚ or innovative that helps produces a fresh market‚ causing disruption in an existing market. Disruptive technology is something that shakes up the current situation or trend in the industry. Disruptive technology can cause a shift of leadership in the industry. An example of disruptive technology would be the Google Glass. With the Google Glass‚ consumers were able to communicate with the Internet via natural language voice commands. The principles behind disruptive
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Predicting Skype vs. AT&T Competitive Intelligence Project Paper Guided by Prof. John E. Prescott Submitted on 30th March 2011 2011 the Fate of Firms and Industries Page 1 of 25 Page 2 of 25 Table of Contents Abstract.......................................................................................................... Abstract By Anil Pal Anupam Banerjee J. Venkatesan Karan Chatrath Shrawan Kharkia Page 3 of 25 Abstract Voice over internet is increasingly becoming
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financial innovation (Liao and Cheung‚ 2003) [9]‚ the change may render the organizational capabilities of the traditional banks obsolete. From the resource-based view (Mahoney and Pandian‚ 1992) [10]‚ in such a context‚ the banks must constantly reconfigure‚ renew‚ or gain organizational capabilities and resources to meet the demands of the dynamic environment. Developing core capabilities can help the banks redeploy their resources and renew their competencies to sustain competitive
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in which it is put to use that steals the show. General Management General Management MBA Core‚ 2nd Year MBA Core‚ 2nd Year Ayush Malhotra NMIMS‚Mumbai Ayush Malhotra NMIMS‚Mumbai Strategy Article On: Strategy Article On: Disruptive Innovation: A new era of Crowdsourced Data Analytics! On Thursday‚ November 3‚2011 news came out that Kaggle has bagged $11 million through VC funding. The money came from Silicon valley VCs Khosla Ventures‚ Index Ventures‚SV ventures and others including
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Disruptive Technology Abstract The objective of this project is to explain the emergence of disruptive technology in the IT industry that will enable and help the organizations growth in a cost effective manner. One of the hottest topics in today’s IT corridors is the uses and benefits of virtualization technologies. IT companies all over the globe are executing virtualization for a diversity of business requirements‚ driven by prospects to progress server flexibility and decrease operational
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Living Case Study As stated by Clayton Christensen‚ disruptive innovation enhances the original business model of a product or organization‚ and changes it; where a product use to only be accessible to a select group of people‚ it is now presented in a much simpler way and accessible to a larger and broader population. Christensen states that the product or organization “takes root” as a simple application‚ and then is disrupted by something. Co-owner Laura Patrick was smart in that she was the
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