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Apple and Other Top 10 Company Financial Statements

With all of the reports about the successes and failures of IPOs in 2012, there may be renewed interest in deciphering financial reports. The follow are explanations of the four major financial statements.
1. Income Statement: One of the most important reports for a company is their Income Statement. This may be referred to as the Statement of Income or the Profit and Loss Statement. This report shows profits and losses over a specific period of time.
2. Balance Sheet: The balance sheet is also referred to as the Statement of Financial Position. The balance sheet displays a company’s position at a single moment in time.
3. Cash Flow Statement: This may also be referred to as the Statement of Cash Flows. The Cash Flow Statement shows information about how money flows in and out of a business. This may be helpful in determining the viability of a company.
4. Statement of Retained Earnings: This may also be referred to as e Statement of Changes in Equity. This statement explains the company’s retained earnings over a period of time. This will be reported under shareholder’s equity on the balance sheet.
The following are examples of the top 10 company financial statements:

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drdianehamilton 1:10 pm on July 31, 2012 Permalink | Reply
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The Ethics of Google

“Don’t Be Evil” is Google’s informal corporate slogan. The founders of Google claimed that this motto explained their culture that “prohibited conflicts of interest, and required objectivity and an absence of bias.” According to Google’s code of conduct page this slogan is, “about providing our users unbiased access to information, focusing on their needs and giving them the best products and services that we can. But it’s also about doing the right thing more generally – following the law, acting honorably and treating each other with respect.”

Can Google do business in an ethical manner if they allow for people to search for unethical content? Laws may decide what is legal, but who decides what is unethical or evil?

Every day someone searches for how to do something illegal and/or unethical through utilizing Google’s search engine. How much content should Google censor? The following articles address Google censorship issues:
U.S. News reported, “The company is based in the United States, and thus must comply with U.S. laws. As a part of its policy, Google already censors things like child pornography, and complies with copyright infringement requests (a heavy volume of which come from videos uploaded on YouTube). Yet because services such as YouTube and Blogger are popular around the world, the company must decide to what extent it will remove content deemed illegal or offensive to foreign governments.”

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drdianehamilton 7:15 am on February 19, 2012 Permalink | Reply
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Importance of Unique and Repeat Visitors
Keeping track of unique visitors helps determine effectiveness of marketing strategies. Webopedia explained that the term unique visitor “refers to a person who visits a Web site more than once within a specified period of time.” It may be difficult to determine the exact number of unique visitors a site may have. PC Magazine explained, “Unique visitors are determined by the number of unique IP addresses on incoming requests that a site receives, but this can never be 100% accurate. Depending on configuration issues and type of ISP service, in some cases, one IP address can represent many users; in other cases, several IP addresses can be from the same user.”

How important are unique visitors? Check out Unique Visitors are not everything. In this article, the author points out that it may be a “misleading stat, as Jakob Nielsen explains, Chasing higher unique-visitor counts will undermine your long-term positioning because you’ll design gimmicks rather than build features that bring people back and turn them into devotees and customers.”

There seems to be confusion between unique visitors and repeat visitors in some of the articles on the Internet. In the article Defining Unique Visitors by Imediaconnection, Brant Dainow explained, “Understanding your repeat visitors is where the money is. The reason is simple: it takes an average of 2.4 visits to your site before someone will buy. In other words, most people buy on the second or third visit to your site. No one buys the first time they visit. Repeat visitors are the ones who matter. Repeat visitors buy the products, and therefore repeat visitors pay your bills.”

Statista created an infographic that demonstrates unique visitors per month as well as average monthly use per visitor for sites like Facebook, Twitter, Linkedin, MySpace, Google, Tumblr, and Pinterest. Not only does Facebook far exceed all others in unique visitors, users are spending over 6 hours per month on the site. This is over 600 times the amount of time spent on Google+.

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- Uli 6:32 am on March 26, 2012 Permalink | Reply
  
  Hello,
  
  great article. I allways use the WAA’s ( now DAA) definition of a visitor. As we try to target humans -. It makes sense to count humans as visitors.
  
  Sadly enough we can only count computers or browser instances – which comes close enough to the number of humans that visit a particular site.
  
  I have written an article about this on http://www.gradlinig.com/2012/02/was-ist-ein-unique-besucher-bzw-unique-visitor/ . Sorry at the moment this is only available in german, but Google tranlsate might do a good job.
  
  The number of unique visitors is a measure for the number of people that you can reach with your site – so generally more is better.
  
  Returning visitors are even better as they are a measure for the number of people that are really interested in your message.
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Top 10 Entrepreneurs Who Hit it Big Before Turning 35

There was a time when it was unusual to hear about an entrepreneur becoming successful at a very young age. With the technology boom, the story is becoming more commonplace. The following list contains the top 10 entrepreneurs whose dreams came to fruition and made them very rich before they hit the ripe old age of 35.
1. Apple – Creators: Steve Jobs and Steve Wozniak. Apple was established in 1976, the year Steve Jobs turned 21 and Steve Wozniak turned 26.
2. Amazon – Creator: Jeff Bezos. Amazon was founded in 1994, the year Jeff Bezos turned 30.
3. Disney – Creator: Walt Disney. Disney was founded in 1923, the year Walt Disney turned 22.
4. Facebook – Creators: Mark Zuckerburg and his college roommates Eduardo Saverin, Dustin Moskovitz and Chris Hughes. Facebook was launched in 2004, the year that Mark Zuckerburg turned 20.
5. Google – Creators: Larry Page and Sergey Brin. Google was incorporated in 1998 the year that Larry Page and Sergey Brin turned 25. Google’s IPO was in August of 2004, the year the men turned just 31.
6. Groupon- Creator: Andrew Mason. Groupon was created in 2008, the year Mason turned 29.
7. LinkedIn – Creators: Reid Hoffman and founders from PayPal. LinkedIn was founded in late 2002 the year that Hoffman turned 35.
8. Microsoft – Creators: Bill Gates and Paul Allen. Microsoft was established in 1975, the year Bill Gates turned 20 and Paul Allen turned 22.
9. Twitter – Creator: Jack Dorsey. Twitter was created in 2006, the year Dorsey turned 30.
10. Yahoo! – Creators: Jerry Yang and David Filo. Yahoo! was incorporated in 1995, the year that Jerry Yang turned 27 and David Filo turned 29.
Click on the company names above to find out more details and top stories about these unique companies.

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- andwz 3:27 am on November 9, 2011 Permalink | Reply
  
  And these are individuals who’d the opportunity to explore society’s information technology innovations; in the era of thier age. Mind-set Entrepreneurs with their leadership contributions for global economy…to what is a business success! “Its never too Late to Follow”
drdianehamilton 1:46 pm on October 25, 2011 Permalink | Reply
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Google+ Uses for Educators: Good or Bad?

Easy accessibility to Google+ makes it an option for educators to share important information with their students. The author of the article 25 Great Google+ Tips for Teachers explains some unusual ways that educators have found to use this new social networking tool.

Google+ hangouts area can be used to create a virtual classroom. Mindshift reported, “Google Hangouts allows up to 10 people to video chat with one another.” Students can follow each other to see the research that they are doing for group projects. Interesting articles can be shared easily between members. To read more about potential uses, click here.

However, not everyone is a fan of Google+ for educators. ReadWriteWeb questioned whether Google+ is the tool that educators have been waiting for due to the privacy issues involved. For more information check out the following related articles:

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drdianehamilton 4:27 pm on September 13, 2011 Permalink | Reply
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Top 10 Companies’ Code of Ethics and Conduct
Companies have something called a code of ethics that outlines how they will run their business. Sometimes they refer to this as their code of conduct. There aren’t always laws to govern things like ethics. Therefore, it is up to companies to define some of their ethical behavior.

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According to the International Labor Organization, “Unlike labor law, corporate codes of conduct do not have any authorized definition. The concept “corporate code of conduct” refers to companies’ policy statements that define ethical standards for their conduct. There is a great variance in the ways these statements are drafted. Corporate codes of conduct are completely voluntary. They can take a number of formats and address any issue – workplace issues and workers’ rights being just one possible category. Also, their implementation depends totally on the company concerned.”

Click here for an article on the difference between laws and ethics.

The following is a list of some major companies and their code of ethics:
In researching these companies, it was interesting that Facebook didn’t have a clearly defined code of ethics listed in the same way other companies did. For more about Facebook, check out the Wall Street Journal article: Facebook Agrees to Work With Government on Germany Privacy Code.

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drdianehamilton 11:27 am on July 28, 2011 Permalink | Reply
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Top Things You Should Know about Google Plus (Google+)

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You may have started to receive emails announcing that you have been added by someone on Google+ and be confused by what that means. First of all it is important to understand Google+. SEOdesk includes a nice article explaining what is Google+. This new system is not unlike the Facebook “Like” feature.

The author of the SEOdesk article pointed out how Google’s new system works. “A small transparent plus one button will appear near your search results (log into your public Google account first), when you click on it, it should turn blue; this indicates that you have +1’d that particular link, it will appear on a new tab in your account which keeps a record of the various things online that you have +1’d (the plus one tab).” For a more detailed explanation, read the entire article.

How can people add you to Google+? First of all, people can find you to add through a search function. See how to find people on Google+. They can then invite people to be friends with them on Google+. How can you protect your information if you don’t want others to see it? Check out: protecting your Google+ profile information. For more information check out: guide to working with circles in Google+.

If you receive a notification that someone has added you to Google+, it may include a statement like: Don’t know this person? You don’t have to add them back (they’ll just see the stuff you share publicly). If you want to block someone, you can do so by following these instructions on blocking someone on Google+.

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drdianehamilton 3:29 pm on July 18, 2011 Permalink | Reply
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Value of Top Companies

The following is a list of the estimated value of some of the top companies in 2011. They are listed in order of highest to lowest value.

Apple – TechCrunch recently reported that Apple’s value is now worth as much as Microsoft, HP and Dell combined. Valued at over $300 billion, Apple continues to grow. For more specifics, click here: Apple Value

Microsoft – Recent estimates put Microsoft’s value at about $200 billion. Skype – Microsoft’s recent purchase assessed Skype’s value at $8.5 billion.

Google – Google’s value has been estimated to be $192 billion as of January, 2011. For more specifics on this income including Larry Page and Sergey Brin’s net income, click here: Google Value. Youtube – Recent estimates put Youtube’s value around $1.3 billion. Google paid $1.6 billion for Youtube in 2006.

Facebook – Facebook was valued at $82.9 billion in January and that number continues to grow.

Amazon – In January, it was reported that Facebook passed Amazon’s value. Amazon still showed a $75.2 billion worth. For more specifics, click here: Amazon Value

HP – Recent estimates put HP’s value at about $72.8 billion.

Dell – Recent estimates put Dell’s value at about $29.3 billion.

Groupon – Recent estimates put Groupon’s Value at as much as $25 billion.

Twitter – It is suggested that Twitter’s value is around $7.7 billion.

Linkedin – Recent estimates put LinkedIn’s value at over $4 billion.

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drdianehamilton 7:20 pm on July 6, 2011 Permalink | Reply
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Reality of Being Seen Live on Facebook, Google+ and Facetime

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Today Facebook announced its new integration with Skype that will allow video calling and group chatting. Zuckerberg is touting “ease of use” as one of the key benefits of this system. Facebook can now compete with Google+ and their video chat service named Hangout.

The question now becomes, do you really want to have the capability of having people see you? Recently I was having a conversation with my husband on my iPhone using Apple’s Facetime application. As my husband took his iPhone around the office and said, “say hello to so and so”, I realized that as I could see them, they could also see me in my jammies with no makeup, hair up on top of my head and wearing my reading glasses. It wasn’t glamorous.

Many people use these video calling services when they are at home. Do we really want to see what everyone looks like when they first wake up in the morning? As we start opening up our homes to people with our video capabilities, we may also be showcasing things that may be better left unseen. Think about the dirty dishes in the sink or the unmade bed. Now more people than ever will know everyone’s dirty little secrets.

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drdianehamilton 1:59 pm on May 3, 2011 Permalink | Reply
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Famous Entrepreneurs Who Hit it Big With Humble Beginnings

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The movie The Social Network showcased Mark Zuckerberg’s ability to create an enormous business from seemingly nothing. Not all entrepreneurs have been accepted to Harvard like Mark Zuckerberg or Bill Gates to hit it big. However, having the intelligence to get there doesn’t hurt.

I grew up next door to a very smart man who worked his way through a state college and started a little company with $5000. That man was Leonard (Sam) Shoen who created U-Haul by asking gas station owners to let him rent trucks from their lots. Amerco is now the parent of U-Haul and is a far cry from the corner gas station beginnings.

There are plenty of Leonard Shoen and Sam Walton stories out there. Accountingdegree.com recently published a list of 10 big businesses that got started in a garage including:
1. Apple
2. Google
3. Mattel
4. HP
5. Amazon
6. Disney
7. Microsoft
8. MagLite
9. Yankee Candle Company
10. Harley Davidson
For more detail regarding how each of these companies got started, you can click on each individual company or read the article by clicking here.

To see Steve Jobs’ Commencement Speech at Stanford explaining how he started Apple watch the following video:

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