In response to Jaeh Song’s blog on Bill Gates. This shouldn’t be an issue, the man is doing everything he- can manage to do to help give back to this world. It is not a marketing move. The malaria shots do not come with windows logos on them. It’s social activism and should be encouraged […]
Now I know game theory isn’t taught in our comm 101 course, nonetheless, it is a topic which intrigues me and one which I have decided to do research upon. A game is a situation in which decision makers rely on the decisions of the other players to make an optimum decision. It’s the study […]
Recently Facebook had it’s offer to buy snapchat for $3 billion rejected. To me that is an astounding figure. I wondered how a company like snapchat, or Instagram could be valued at such prices without producing any revenue. The apps are free to download, and there is no in-built advertising. After reading up on […]
I eat the same insipid food at the cafeteria everyday, and my life would be dull if it weren’t for sriracha sauce. I decided to do some more research on sriracha sauce, and came across the inspiring story of Mr. David Tran. Mr. Tran is the founder of Huy Fong Foods, and the inventor of […]
Yahoo recently sacked around 600 employees after concluding from their performance evaluation methods that the sacked employees were under performers who were bringing the company down. Yahoo’s metric was a bell curve which measures productivity of employees as assessed by the management. A lower standard deviation is representative of a homogenized organization of equally productive […]
While I very much enjoyed the swot analysis on snapchat in xin jiang’s blog, I do not necessarily understand why she is so shocked that he rejected this offer of $3 billion. Snapchat, Instagram and the like have been fortunate to be caught in the social bubble so they will not be valued at exactly […]