Tuesday, May 22, 2007

2nd Article- New Book Search

1)What has changed with the book search?-Now when you search you'll get both digitized book results as well as records for millions of other books that still just exist in the analog world.

2)Do you think people will still be reading books in 10 years? Why or why not?-Yes, i think people would still be reading books in ten years because new edition of old books will be publish, and people will want the latest version of what they are researching.

3)How long do you currently read online per day (in hours)? How long do you currently read offline per day (in hours)?-Online i read about an 1 and 30 minutes because i read my messages from my e-mail account and my myspace. Offline I would say that i read all day because in each of my classes we're reading something about history, science, or computers.

1st Article-"Freakonomics".

1)What is 'product placement'?-Product placement is deals that daytime TV shows employ.

2)How much does Martha Stewart charge to mention a product on the air?-Martha Stewart charge $10,000 for a 30 seconds mention of the product.

3)Do you think her use of this is hurting her ratings?-Yes, because she is lagging in her ratings.

4)What do you think of product placement?-I dont think it a good idea because i think that the product placement have something to do with her lag in ratings.

Monday, May 14, 2007

Final Exams Questions (Day 1)

1)Google-1998
Microsoft-1968
Yahoo-1994

2)Google- Larry Page & Sergey Brin
Microsoft-Bill Gates
Yahoo-Jerry Yang & David Filo

3)Google-10,604.92
Microsoft-44,282.00
Yahoo-6,425.68

4).NET is the newest technology umbrella term from Microsoft.

5)I don't understand the question

6)Yahoo purchased Flickr.com

7)Clever D.Prince recently purchased Chrysler

8)Providers of private equity venture capital to startup companies. Directory of private investors and private corporate financing vendors. A public corporation is a corporation created to perform a governmental function or to operate under government control, such as a municipal water company or hospital.

9)Money coming to a company is Revenue.

10)A share of stock is a claim on the current and future dividends (or other cash flows, such as stock buybacks) to be paid by a company.

11)Alcoa does only Mine aluminum .

12)Genaral Electric

13)CEO job involves an initial acquisition search phase in which the executive will work with the company to develop a business plan and identify and evaluate acquisition opportunities in a targeted industry, conduct necessary due diligence on the acquisition target, and then following the closing of an acquisition, assume the CEO position and associated responsibilities for the acquired company.

14)CFO enables entrepreneurial companies to achieve a strategic advantage over competitors that lack similar management talent.

15)The NYSE is the best known of all stock markets. NASDAQ (originally an acronym for National Association of Securities Dealers Automated Quotations system) is an American electronic stock exchange.

16)The board of directors elects a president and chairman that has been traditionally a writer.

17) IPO stands for initial public offering and occurs when a company first sells its shares to the public.

Six Grade Assignment

http://www.davidcfreer.com/~Atashi/Index.HTML

Monday, May 07, 2007

Two Articles on Cnn

The first article that I've read was ''Spider-Man 3': Biggest weekend ever'' the article talks about how Spider Man 3 movie premiere was the biggest weekend ever, and that it sold 373 million worth of weekends tickets. Also, the article talks about how in Spider Man 3 he changed the costume from red to black. Spider Man 3 is the highest opening since Star Wars: Episode 3, his nerdy side must also fight to keep Mary Jane.

The second article that i read was ''Gas prices hit record high'' its talks about how the gas prices has reach up to $3.07 reported Sunday. In the time of March 1981 the article states that gas prices was as lower than $1.35, which is over ten years ago. The prices of gas now is 12 cents higher that what it normally was last year. In cities right now Memphis has the cheapest gas, and Chicago has the highest