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W00t
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The term w00t, or woot, is a slang interjection used to express happiness or excitement, usually over the Internet. The expression is most popular on forums, USENET posts, multiplayer games, IRC chats. The w00t spelling is a variant of woot, alternative spellings include whoot, wOOt, wh00t, wewt, wought. The term woot is of British origin, preceding the internet by several decades, widely used by outdoor pursuits extreme sports participants, being a contraction of, both these songs are in the same year, in the Miami bass genre. The w00t form gained popularity on the internet from 1996, especially in multiplayer online role-playing games. One such incorrect etymology derives w00t as a contraction of a phrase like wow, wondrous loot, and Wonderful Loot, etc. in a MMORPG when a player found large quantities of/or rare valuable items in game, or as an acronym for We Owned the Other Team. These games appeared after w00t was already common, another supposed origin is as an expression used by a cracker who has just broken into a computer system, obtaining root access, woot, I have root. Some people say it was just a parody on a child with a speech trying to say loot. Other etymologies relate it to hoot or toot, as in trains in childrens books, doing so as a statement of victory, or applauding good news. This is also along the line of some use of W00t. As a response to a happy surprise, to repeat, there is scarce evidence for any of these supposed etymologies, and the derivation from the song “Whoot, There It Is” is clear and well-supported. The word was featured on the list of Merriam-Websters Words of the Year for 2007 and they said, it reflects a new direction in the American language led by a generation raised on video games and cell phone text-messaging. Apart from the British digital sales house w00t. media the expression has made it into an URL-shortener. Garaj Mahal named their 2008 album w00t, in 2011, woot was added to the Concise Oxford English Dictionary. The word is recognized in the dictionary without zeroes, and is instead spelled with two Os
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Carrollton, Texas
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Carrollton is a city in Denton, Dallas, and Collin counties in Texas. As of the 2010 census, its population was 119,097, the area was first settled by Jared Ford in 1842 by William and Mary Larner on a site within the Peters Colony grant. In 1844, the A. W. Perry family claimed land in the area around Trinity Mills where, in partnership with Wade H. Witt and it is most likely that Carrollton was named for Carrollton, Illinois, the original home of many of these settlers. Carrolltons significance was further strengthened when the railroad was extended to Denton in 1880 by Jay Gould, by 1885, Carrollton had flour mills, cotton gins, two churches, a school, and a population of 150. The St. Louis Southwestern Railway crossed the Katy in 1888, and the became a shipping center for livestock, cotton, cotton seed. In 1913 Carrollton was officially incorporated, and W. F. Vinson was elected mayor, a gravel industry that began in Carrollton in 1912 transformed the city, by the late 1940s, to a grain and gravel town. The city also supported a brick plant and a dairy industry, after World War II the city grew rapidly. In 1950 its population stood at 1,610, and it grew to 4,242 in 1960 and 13,855 in 1970. At this point, significant suburban growth began spilling out of north Dallas, by 1983, the population was 52,000, by 1990, it had reached 82,169, and by 2010 the population had grown to 119,097. It is a suburb of Dallas and in 2006 was named to Americas Top 100 Places to Live by Relocate America, also in 2006, it was selected as the 19th best place to live in the United States by Money magazine. In 2008 it was named by Money magazine the 15th best place to live among small cities. According to the United States Census Bureau, Carrollton has an area of 37.1 square miles, of which 36.3 square miles is land and 0.81 square miles. Carrollton is located in portions of three counties, Dallas County, Denton County, and Collin County, on average, the warmest month is July. The highest recorded temperature was 112 °F in 1980, the average coolest month is January. The lowest recorded temperature was 1 °F in 1989, the most precipitation on average occurs in May. Carrollton is considered to have a subtropical climate. As of the 2010 census, the population was 119,097. The population density was 3,209.8 people per square mile, there were 45,508 housing units at an average density of 1,253.7 per square mile
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Revenue
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In accounting, revenue is the income that a business has from its normal business activities, usually from the sale of goods and services to customers. Revenue is also referred to as sales or turnover, some companies receive revenue from interest, royalties, or other fees. Revenue may refer to income in general, or it may refer to the amount, in a monetary unit, received during a period of time, as in Last year. Profits or net income generally imply total revenue minus total expenses in a given period, in accounting, revenue is often referred to as the top line due to its position on the income statement at the very top. This is to be contrasted with the line which denotes net income. For non-profit organizations, annual revenue may be referred to as gross receipts, in general usage, revenue is income received by an organization in the form of cash or cash equivalents. Sales revenue or revenues is income received from selling goods or services over a period of time, tax revenue is income that a government receives from taxpayers. In more formal usage, revenue is a calculation or estimation of periodic income based on a standard accounting practice or the rules established by a government or government agency. Two common accounting methods, cash basis accounting and accrual basis accounting, corporations that offer shares for sale to the public are usually required by law to report revenue based on generally accepted accounting principles or International Financial Reporting Standards. In a double-entry bookkeeping system, revenue accounts are general ledger accounts that are summarized periodically under the heading Revenue or Revenues on an income statement, Revenue account names describe the type of revenue, such as Repair service revenue, Rent revenue earned or Sales. Money income from activities that are ordinary for a corporation, company, partnership. For some businesses, such as manufacturing and/or grocery, most revenue is from the sale of goods, service businesses such as law firms and barber shops receive most of their revenue from rendering services. Lending businesses such as car rentals and banks receive most of their revenue from fees, Revenues from a businesss primary activities are reported as sales, sales revenue or net sales. This includes product returns and discounts for early payment of invoices, most businesses also have revenue that is incidental to the businesss primary activities, such as interest earned on deposits in a demand account. This is included in revenue but not included in net sales, Sales revenue does not include sales tax collected by the business. Other revenue is revenue from peripheral operations, for example, a company that manufactures and sells automobiles would record the revenue from the sale of an automobile as regular revenue. The combination of all the revenue generating systems of a business is called its revenue model, Revenue is a crucial part of financial statement analysis. The company’s performance is measured to the extent to which its asset inflows compare with its asset outflows, net income is the result of this equation, but revenue typically enjoys equal attention during a standard earnings call
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Amazon (company)
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Amazon. com, also called Amazon, is an American electronic commerce and cloud computing company that was founded on July 5,1994, by Jeff Bezos and is based in Seattle, Washington. It is the largest Internet-based retailer in the world by total sales, the company also produces consumer electronics—notably, Kindle e-readers, Fire tablets, Fire TV, and Echo—and is the worlds largest provider of cloud infrastructure services. Amazon also sells certain low-end products like USB cables under its in-house brand AmazonBasics. Amazon has separate retail websites for the United States, the United Kingdom, Ireland, France, Canada, Germany, Italy, Spain, Netherlands, Australia, Brazil, Japan, China, India, and Mexico. Amazon also offers international shipping to other countries for some of its products. In 2016, Dutch, Polish, and Turkish language versions of the German Amazon website were launched. In 2015, Amazon surpassed Walmart as the most valuable retailer in the United States by market capitalization, in 1994, Bezos left his employment as vice-president of D. E. Shaw & Co. a Wall Street firm and moved to Seattle. He began to work on a plan for what would eventually become Amazon. com. Bezos incorporated the company as Cadabra on July 5,1994, Bezos changed the name to Amazon a year later after a lawyer misheard its original name as cadaver. In September 1994, Bezos purchased the URL Relentless. com and briefly considered naming his online store Relentless, the domain is still owned by Bezos and still redirects to the retailer. The company went online as Amazon. com in 1995, Bezos placed a premium on his head start in building a brand, telling a reporter, Theres nothing about our model that cant be copied over time. But you know, McDonalds got copied, and it still built a huge, multibillion-dollar company. A lot of it comes down to the brand name, brand names are more important online than they are in the physical world. Additionally, a beginning with A was preferential due to the probability it would occur at the top of any list that was alphabetized. Since June 19,2000, Amazons logotype has featured a curved arrow leading from A to Z, representing that the company carries every product from A to Z, with the arrow shaped like a smile. After reading a report about the future of the Internet that projected annual Web commerce growth at 2, 300% and he narrowed the list to what he felt were the five most promising products, which included, compact discs, computer hardware, computer software, videos and books. Amazon was founded in the garage of Bezos home in Bellevue, the company began as an online bookstore, an idea spurred off with discussion with John Ingram of Ingram Book, along with Keyur Patel who still holds a stake in Amazon. Amazon was able to access books at wholesale from Ingram, in the first two months of business, Amazon sold to all 50 states and over 45 countries
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Online shopping
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Online shopping is a form of electronic commerce which allows consumers to directly buy goods or services from a seller over the Internet using a web browser. As of 2016, customers can shop online using a range of different computers and devices, including computers, laptops, tablet computers. An online shop evokes the physical analogy of buying products or services at a regular bricks-and-mortar retailer or shopping center, when an online store is set up to enable businesses to buy from another businesses, the process is called business-to-business online shopping. Online stores typically enable shoppers to use search features to specific models. Online customers must have access to the Internet and a method of payment in order to complete a transaction, such as a credit card. The largest of these online retailing corporations are Alibaba, Amazon. com, alternative names for the activity are e-tailing, a shortened form of electronic retail or e-shopping, a shortened form of electronic shopping. An online store may also be called an e-web-store, e-shop, e-store, Internet shop, web-shop, web-store, online store, online storefront, mobile commerce describes purchasing from an online retailers mobile device-optimized website or software application. These websites or apps are designed to enable customers to browse through a companies products and services on tablet computers, the growth of the internet as a secure shopping channel has developed since 1994, with the first sales of Sting album Ten Summoners Tales. Wine, chocolates and flowers soon followed and were among the pioneering retail categories which fueled the growth of online shopping, researchers found that having products that are appropriate for e-commerce was a key indicator of Internet success. Many of these products did well as they are products which shoppers didnt need to touch. But also importantly in the early days there were few shoppers online and they were from a segment, affluent, male. Online shopping has come along way since early days and -in the UK- accounts for significant percents. They focused on shopping motivations and found that the variety of products available and this was different for offline shoppers, who were more motivated by time saving and recreational motives. Digital High Street 2020 English entrepreneur Michael Aldrich was a pioneer of online shopping in 1979 and his system connected a modified domestic TV to a real-time transaction processing computer via a domestic telephone line. During the 1980s he designed, manufactured, sold, installed, maintained and supported many online shopping systems, the first World Wide Web server and browser, created by Tim Berners-Lee in 1990, opened for commercial use in 1991. The first secure retail transaction over the Web was either by NetMarket or Internet Shopping Network in 1994, immediately after, Amazon. com launched its online shopping site in 1995 and eBay was also introduced in 1995. Alibabas sites Taobao and Tmall were launched in 2003 and 2008, retailers are increasingly selling goods and services prior to availability through pretail for testing, building, and managing demand. Statistics show that in 2012, Asia-Pacific increased their sales over 30% giving them over $433 billion in revenue
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Dallas
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Dallas is a major city in the U. S. state of Texas. It is the most populous city in the Dallas–Fort Worth metroplex, the citys population ranks ninth in the U. S. and third in Texas after Houston and San Antonio. The citys prominence arose from its importance as a center for the oil and cotton industries. The bulk of the city is in Dallas County, of which it is the county seat, however, sections of the city are located in Collin, Denton, Kaufman, and Rockwall counties. According to the 2010 United States Census, the city had a population of 1,197,816, the United States Census Bureaus estimate for the citys population increased to 1,300,092 as of July 1,2015. In 2016 DFW ascended to the one spot in the nation in year-over-year population growth. In 2014, the metropolitan economy surpassed Washington, D. C. to become the fifth largest in the U. S. with a 2014 real GDP over $504 billion, as such, the metropolitan areas economy is the 10th largest in the world. As of January 2017, the job count has increased to 3,558,200 jobs. The citys economy is based on banking, commerce, telecommunications, technology, energy, healthcare and medical research. The city is home to the third-largest concentration of Fortune 500 companies in the nation. Located in North Texas, Dallas is the core of the largest metropolitan area in the South. Dallas and nearby Fort Worth were developed due to the construction of railroad lines through the area allowing access to cotton, cattle. Later, France also claimed the area but never established much settlement, the area remained under Spanish rule until 1821, when Mexico declared independence from Spain, and the area was considered part of the Mexican state of Coahuila y Tejas. In 1836, the Republic of Texas, with majority Anglo-American settlers, in 1839, Warren Angus Ferris surveyed the area around present-day Dallas. John Neely Bryan established a permanent settlement near the Trinity River named Dallas in 1841, the origin of the name is uncertain. The Republic of Texas was annexed by the United States in 1845, Dallas was formally incorporated as a city on February 2,1856. With construction of railroads, Dallas became a business and trading center and it became an industrial city, attracting workers from Texas, the South and the Midwest. The Praetorian Building of 15 stories, built in 1909, was the first skyscraper west of the Mississippi and it marked the prominence of Dallas as a city
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T-shirt
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A T-shirt is a style of unisex fabric shirt, named after the T shape of the body and sleeves. It is normally associated with short sleeves, a round neck line known as a crew neck, T-shirts are generally made of a light, inexpensive fabric, and are easy to clean. Typically made of textile in a stockinette, or jersey. The majority of versions have a body made from a continuously woven tube, on a circular loom. The manufacture of T-shirts has become automated, and may include fabric cutting by laser or water jet. The T-shirt evolved from undergarments used in the 19th century, a V-neck T-shirt has a V-shaped neckline, as opposed to the round neckline of the more common crew neck shirt. The T-shirt evolved from undergarments used in the 19th century, first, the one-piece union suit underwear was cut into separate top and bottom garments, with the top long enough to tuck under the waistband of the bottoms. With and without buttons, they were adopted by miners and stevedores during the late 19th century as a convenient covering for hot environments. As slip-on garments without buttons, the earliest T-shirt dates back to sometime between the 1898 Spanish–American War and 1913, when the U. S. Navy began issuing them as undergarments and these were a crew-necked, short-sleeved, white cotton undershirt to be worn under a uniform. It became common for sailors and Marines in work parties, the early submarines and they soon became popular as a bottom layer of clothing for workers in various industries, including agriculture. The T-shirt was easily fitted, easily cleaned, and inexpensive, boys shirts were made in various colors and patterns. The word T-shirt became part of American English by the 1920s, following World War II, it became common to see veterans wearing their uniform trousers with their T-shirts as casual clothing. The shirts became more popular in the 1950s after Marlon Brando wore one in A Streetcar Named Desire, finally achieving status as fashionable, stand-alone. Often boys wore them while doing chores and playing outside, eventually opening up the idea of wearing them as general-purpose casual clothing, Printed T-shirts were in limited use by 1942 when an Air Corps Gunnery School T-shirt appeared on the cover of Life magazine. In the 1960s, printed T-shirts gained popularity for self-expression as well for advertisements, protests, current versions are available in many different designs and fabrics, and styles include crew-neck and V-neck shirts. T-shirts are among the most worn garments of clothing used today, T-shirts are especially popular with branding for companies or merchandise, as they are inexpensive to make and purchase. T-shirts were originally worn as undershirts, but are now worn frequently as the piece of clothing on the top half of the body, other than possibly a brassiere or, rarely. T-shirts have also become a medium for self-expression and advertising, with any combination of words, art
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Central Time Zone
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The North American Central Time Zone is a time zone in parts of Canada, the United States, Mexico, Central America, some Caribbean Islands, and part of the Eastern Pacific Ocean. Central Standard Time is six hours behind Coordinated Universal Time, during summer most of the zone uses daylight saving time, and changes to Central Daylight Time which is five hours behind UTC. The province of Manitoba is the province or territory in Canada that observes Central Time in all areas. Also, most of the province of Saskatchewan is on Central Standard Time year-round, major exceptions include Lloydminster, a city situated on the boundary between Alberta and Saskatchewan. The city charter stipulates that it shall observe Mountain Time and DST, putting the community on the time as all of Alberta, including the major cities of Calgary. As a result, during the summer, clocks in the province match those in Alberta. The Central Time Zone is the second most populous in the US after the Eastern Time Zone, lanett and Valley observe Eastern Time historically because they were textile mill towns and the original home office of their mills was in West Point, Georgia. Some eastern counties observe Central Time because they are close to the border of the Middle Tennessee counties surrounding the Nashville metropolitan area. Louisiana Michigan, All of Michigan observes Eastern Time except the four Upper Peninsula counties that border Wisconsin, other westernmost counties from this area such as Ontonagon observe Eastern Time. South Dakota, Eastern half as divided by the Missouri river adjacent to the state capital, note, the metropolitan area of Pierre is Central, including Fort Pierre. Wisconsin Most of Mexico—roughly the eastern three-fourths—lies in the Central Time Zone, except for six northwestern states, the federal entities of Mexico that observe Central Time, Belize, Costa Rica, El Salvador, Guatemala, Honduras, and Nicaragua all use Central Standard Time year-round. The Galápagos Islands in Ecuador uses Central Standard Time all year-round, Daylight saving time is in effect in much of the Central time zone between mid-March and early November. The modified time is called Central Daylight Time and is UTC−5, in Canada, Saskatchewan does not observe a time change. One reason that Saskatchewan does not take part in a change is that, geographically. The province elected to move onto permanent daylight saving by being part of the Central Time Zone, Mexico decided not to go along with this change and observes their horario de verano from the first Sunday in April to the last Sunday in October. In December 2009, the Mexican Congress allowed ten border cities, eight of which are in states that observe Central Time, to adopt the U. S. daylight time schedule effective in 2010
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Customer support
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Customer support is a range of customer services to assist customers in making cost effective and correct use of a product. It includes assistance in planning, installation, training, troubleshooting, maintenance, upgrading, regarding technology products such as mobile phones, televisions, computers, software products or other electronic or mechanical goods, it is termed technical support. Customer support is considered as one of the data channels for customer satisfaction research. Customer support automation involves the building of a base of known issues and their resolution to support incidents with delivery mechanisms. A service automation platform includes a suite of support solutions including proactive support, automated assisted support enables remote access to sites that need instant problem solving. By automating the collection of information of devices and applications coexisting with the supported application, automated self-support, automates the self-support process, freeing users from self-help diagnostics and troubleshooting from on-line libraries or knowledge bases. Proactive Support Automation refers to support automation solutions that minimize downtime and this is achieved by constant health check tracking with diagnostic procedures to enable issue monitoring and problem solving. This information can then be exploited to predict service degradations or interruptions, assisted Support Automation is the software that enables support personnel to remotely access their customers desktop or server for diagnostics and trouble ticket resolution. Channels of communication that companies may offer to customers for support, Phone Support, for inbound calls, an IVR can be programmed to route captured calls in a variety of ways with the potential goal of quickest resolution of a customer’s request/problem. Phone Support is often used for taking, pre-sales queries. Outbound calls are made to customers from the call center to give or take information. Live Chat Support, In Live Chat Support a web visitor seeks assistance, the customer support representative interacts with the web visitor, understands the requirements, resolves the query and closes the interaction. Alternatively, based on the requirements the customer support representative could also trigger a chat session with the web visitor, livechat support assists with language barriers as both parties involved in the chat session may be able to use an online translation service to communicate. It is also considered less intrusive than phone support, livechat support is often used for lead generation and fulfillment, campaign management, pre-sales and post-sales enquiries, complaint registration, tech support etc. Email Support, Email is the means to offer web-based assistance for your customers when matters do not require an immediate answer. Low-cost, non-intrusive and anywhere-anytime access are some of the advantages of email-based communications, trouble Ticketing System and CRM Applications help keep track of a series of follow-up correspondence with a particular customer. Services offered via email response management is claims processing, polling/media analysis, subscription services, troubleshooting, remote Support, Solving problems of a computer at a particular location from a computer at another location is remote support. Companies can save considerable amounts of money on logistics through remote support, IT technicians are empowered with several tools that allow them to gain access to customers’ computers at various parts of the world
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Internet forum
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An Internet forum, or message board, is an online discussion site where people can hold conversations in the form of posted messages. They differ from chat rooms in that messages are often longer than one line of text, also, depending on the access level of a user or the forum set-up, a posted message might need to be approved by a moderator before it becomes visible. Forums have a set of jargon associated with them, example. A discussion forum is hierarchical or tree-like in structure, a forum can contain a number of subforums, within a forums topic, each new discussion started is called a thread, and can be replied to by as many people as so wish. Depending on the settings, users can be anonymous or have to register with the forum. On most forums, users do not have to log in to read existing messages, the modern forum originated from bulletin boards, and so-called computer conferencing systems, and are a technological evolution of the dialup bulletin board system. From a technological standpoint, forums or boards are web applications managing user-generated content, early Internet forums could be described as a web version of an electronic mailing list or newsgroup, allowing people to post messages and comment on other messages. Later developments emulated the different newsgroups or individual lists, providing more than one forum, Internet forums are prevalent in several developed countries. Japan posts the most with two million per day on their largest forum, 2channel. China also has millions of posts on forums such as Tianya Club. Some of the very first forum systems were the Planet-Forum system, developed in the beginning of the 1970-s, the EIES system, first operational in 1976, one of the first forum sites, and still active today, is Delphi Forums, once called Delphi. The service, with four members, dates to 1983. Forums perform a similar to that of dial-up bulletin board systems. Early web-based forums date back as far as 1994, with the WIT project from W3 Consortium and starting from this time, a sense of virtual community often develops around forums that have regular users. Technology, video games, sports, music, fashion, religion, and politics are popular areas for forum themes, Internet slang and image macros popular across the Internet are abundant and widely used in Internet forums. Forum software packages are available on the Internet and are written in a variety of programming languages, such as PHP, Perl, Java. The configuration and records of posts can be stored in files or in a database. Each package offers different features, from the most basic, providing text-only postings, to more advanced packages, offering multimedia support, many packages can be integrated easily into an existing website to allow visitors to post comments on articles
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Business model
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A business model describes the rationale of how an organization creates, delivers, and captures value, in economic, social, cultural or other contexts. The process of model construction is part of business strategy. The literature has provided very diverse interpretations and definitions of a business model, a systematic review and analysis of manager responses to a survey defines business models as the design of organizational structures to enact a commercial opportunity. Further extensions to this design logic emphasize the use of narrative or coherence in business model descriptions as mechanisms by which entrepreneurs create extraordinarily successful growth firms, well-known business models can operate as recipes for creative managers. Business models are referred to in some instances within the context of accounting for purposes of public reporting. Over the years, business models have much more sophisticated. The bait and hook business model was introduced in the early 20th century and this involves offering a basic product at a very low cost, often at a loss, then charging compensatory recurring amounts for refills or associated products or services. Examples include, razor and blades, cell phones and air time, computer printers and ink cartridge refills, a variant of this model is Adobe, a software developer that gives away its document reader free of charge but charges several hundred dollars for its document writer. In the 1950s, new models came from McDonalds Restaurants. In the 1960s, the innovators were Wal-Mart and Hypermarkets, today, the type of business models might depend on how technology is used. For example, entrepreneurs on the internet have also created new models that depend entirely on existing or emergent technology. Using technology, businesses can reach a number of customers with minimal costs. Design logic views the model as an outcome of creating new organizational structures or changing existing structures to pursue a new opportunity. Gerry George and Adam Bock conducted a literature review and surveyed managers to understand how they perceived the components of a business model. In that analysis these authors show that there is a logic behind how entrepreneurs and managers perceive. They also show that when the narrative is incoherent or the components of the story are misaligned and they recommend ways in which the entrepreneur or CEO can create strong narratives for change. The University of Tennessee conducted research into highly collaborative business relationships, researchers codified their research into a sourcing business model known as Vested. From about 2012, some research and experimentation has theorized about a so-called liquid business model, sangeet Paul Choudary distinguishes between two broad families of business models in an article in Wired magazine
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FedEx Ground
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FedEx Ground is a shipping company that is a subsidiary of the FedEx Corporation. It is headquartered in Moon Township, Pennsylvania, a suburb of Pittsburgh, originally conceived as a lower cost competitor to UPS, Roadway Package System was created to take advantage of new barcode, material handling and computer technologies. By 1996, RPS had achieved 100% coverage of the United States, in addition, Roadway Services had been reformed as a new holding company called Caliber System, Inc. In 1997, Fred Smith, founder of FedEx, contacted Dan Sullivan, co-founder of RPS and now president of Caliber Systems, Inc. about merging the two companies. In 2000, FedEx merged the Caliber System, Inc. operating companies into the FedEx organization with Roberts Express becoming FedEx Custom Critical, viking Freight, which initially operated under its original name, was re-branded FedEx Freight in 2001. FedEx Ground now provides 1-5 day delivery of packages to all 50 states. Ground also delivered to Puerto Rico, but this service was discontinued in 2009, the subsidiary also offers a specialty service known as FedEx Home Delivery which, coupled with Ground, serves all home addresses in the United States. FedEx purchased the parcel consolidator Parcel Direct in September 2004 from Quad Graphics and this FedEx Ground subsidiary was re-branded as FedEx SmartPost in October 2004. FedEx SmartPost uses FedEx for the journey and uses the US Postal Service for final delivery to residences, FedEx SmartPost is headquartered in New Berlin, Wisconsin, United States and operates 26 hubs throughout the US, Official website
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United Parcel Service
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United Parcel Service, Inc. is the worlds largest package delivery company and a provider of supply chain management solutions. The global logistics company is headquartered in the city of Sandy Springs, Georgia, United States, UPS delivers more than 15 million packages per day to more than 7.9 million customers in more than 220 countries and territories around the world. UPS is known for its trademark brown delivery trucks and uniforms, UPS also operates its own airline and air cargo delivery service based in Louisville, Kentucky, United States. On August 28,1907, James Casey founded the American Messenger Company with Claude Ryan in Seattle, Washington, most deliveries at this time were made on foot and bicycles were used for longer trips. The American Messenger Company focused primarily on package delivery to stores with special delivery mail delivered for its largest client the United States Postal Service. In 1913 the company acquired a Model T Ford as its first delivery vehicle, Casey and Ryan merged with a competitor, Evert McCabe, and formed Merchants Parcel Delivery. Consolidated delivery was introduced, combining packages addressed to a certain neighborhood onto one delivery vehicle. In 1916 Charlie Soderstrom joined Merchants Parcel Delivery bringing in more vehicles for the growing delivery business, in 1919 the company expanded for the first time outside of Seattle to Oakland, California and changed its name to United Parcel Service. Common carrier service was acquired in 1922 from a company in Los Angeles, UPS became one of the only companies in the United States to offer common carrier service. At first common carrier was only limited to an area around Los Angeles. In 1924 a conveyor system was debuted for the handling of packages for UPS operations. In 1930, a service began in New York City, and soon after in other major cities in the East. The use of common carrier for delivery between all customers placed UPS in direct competition with the United States Postal Service and the Interstate Commerce Commission. The common carrier service was applied to all cities in cities where UPS could use the service without the authority of the ICC, the first city for UPS to use common carrier outside of Los Angeles was Chicago, Illinois in 1953. Air service through UPS was first used in 1929 through private airlines, however, The Great Depression and a lack of volume ended the air service. In 1953 UPS resumed air service called UPS Blue Label Air with two-day service to cities along the East Coast and West Coast. In 1975, UPS moved its headquarters to Greenwich, Connecticut, the expanded operations to all 48 states made UPS the first package delivery company to serve every address in the Continental United States. UPS went international in 1975 establishing operations in Canada and in 1976 operations were established in Germany, on February 28, UPS Ltd. began operations in Toronto, Ontario
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Motorola Xoom
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The Motorola Xoom is an Android-based tablet computer by Motorola, introduced at CES2011 on January 5,2011. It was the first tablet to be sold with Android 3.0 Honeycomb, the Verizon branded Xoom was the first tablet to run Android 3.1. The Motorola Xoom went through the FCC on February 10,2011 only 14 days before release, the 3G version was released on February 24,2011, and the Wi-Fi version was released March 27,2011. It was announced concurrently with three products, the Motorola Atrix, the Motorola Droid Bionic, and the Motorola Cliq 2. CNET named it the Best of the CES2011 and its successor, the Motorola Xyboard, Xoom 2 in the UK, was announced in October 2011, and released in November. The Xoom supports up to 720p video playback and it features a 2 MP front-facing camera for video chatting over Wi-Fi or cellular Internet and a rear-facing 5 MP camera that records 720p video. The Xoom has a 1280×800 pixels widescreen,10. 1-inch display and 3D graphics acceleration and it features the Gorilla Glass resistant coating. It includes a variety of sensors, including a gyroscope, magnetometer, accelerometer, the Xoom uses an Nvidia Tegra 2 SoC T20 chip. The Xoom reportedly has trouble trying to communicate with the Windows XP operating system via USB cable unless Windows Media Player is updated past version 10 and this issue is not present in Windows 7. Both the Wi-Fi and Verizon branded Xoom ran Googles Android 3, the Canadian Wi-Fi Xoom currently has the 4.0.3 update and the UK Wi-Fi Xoom had the 3.2 update as of July 2012. After Google released the code to Android 4.0 Ice Cream Sandwich, Motorola announced that a number of its formerly released mobile devices would get the update. The Android 4.0.3 update for the Wi-Fi Xoom was released in the US on January 18,2012, the corresponding update to the Verizon-branded Xoom was released on June 4,2012. The corresponding update to the Verizon Wireless-branded Xoom 4G was in August 2013, Google will not officially release Jelly Bean 4.2 to the Xoom, however there are unofficial CyanogenMod releases with Android 4.4.2. The Motorola Xoom supports docking stations for charging and as a stand for viewing video and it also features Bluetooth keyboard support. Available accessories include, Motorola Xoom portfolio case, dock, HD stereo dock and it was announced that microSD Card Slot is enabled with Android 3.2 Update. Motorola Xoom tablet did not support Flash on Day 1 of its release in US on February 22,2011, before release, no official statement has indicated whether the microSD slot will support SDHC or SDXC card families. Early on Motorola also touted the ability to upgrade to 4G as a selling point versus other tablets. However, it was revealed through an internal memo in late July 2011
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Podcast
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The word arose as a portmanteau of iPod and broadcast. Thus, the files distributed are typically in audio or video formats, the distributor of a podcast maintains a central list of the files on a server as a web feed that can be accessed through the Internet. This process can be automated so that new files are downloaded automatically, files are stored locally on the users device, ready for offline use. Podcasting contrasts with webcasting or streaming which do not allow for offline listening, many podcast players allow listeners to adjust the playback speed. Podcasts are usually free of charge to listeners and can often be created for little to no cost and it is very much a horizontal media form, producers are consumers, consumers may become producers, and both can engage in conversations with each other. Podcast is a portmanteau, invented by BBC journalist Ben Hammersley in 2004, of the words pod — from iPod, despite the etymology, the content can be accessed using any computer or similar device that can play media files. Use of the term podcast predated Apples addition of support for podcasting to the iPod. Other names for podcasting include net cast, intended as a term without the loose reference to the Apple iPod. The name is used by shows from the TWiT. tv network, some sources have suggested the backronym portable on demand for POD, for similar reasons. Podcasting, once a method of spreading information, has become a recognized medium for distributing audio content. Podcasts are similar to programs, but they are audio files. Listeners can play them at their convenience, using devices that have more common than portable broadcast receivers. The first application to make this process feasible was iPodderX, developed by August Trometer, by 2007, audio podcasts were doing what was historically accomplished via radio broadcasts, which had been the source of radio talk shows and news programs since the 1930s. This shift occurred as a result of the evolution of internet capabilities along with increased access to cheaper hardware and software for audio recording and editing. In August 2004, Adam Curry launched his show Daily Source Code and it was a show focused on chronicling his everyday life, delivering news and discussions about the development of podcasting, as well as promoting new and emerging podcasts. Daily Source Code is believed to be the first podcast produced on a consistent basis, Curry published it in an attempt to gain traction in the development of what would come to be known as podcasting and as a means of testing the software outside of a lab setting. The name Daily Source Code was chosen in the hope that it would attract an audience with an interest in technology, Daily Source Code started at a grassroots level of production and was initially directed at podcast developers. As its audience became interested in the format, these developers were inspired to create and produce their own projects and, as a result, as more people learned how easy it was to produce podcasts, a community of pioneer podcasters quickly appeared
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Photoshop contest
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A large part of the humor in many of these contests involves the use of internet memes. Such contests are nowadays finding increasing participations in many blogs, The popular internet community Reddit, Photoshop tennis (also known as Photoshop Pong or Photoshop battle is a game played through sequential alternating photoshopping of an image. Photoshop tennis originated in graphics-related internet forums in the late-1990s/early-2000s, the game was made popular by art director Jim Coudal in 2001 as Photoshop Tennis. The matches on coudal. com have since been renamed Layer Tennis, each match of Photoshop tennis is generally played with two competing players. The players pick an image, or one is served by a player. This process goes back and forth until a number of rounds have elapsed. When the final round is over, there may be an independent judge who determines who has played the best shots, sometimes extra rules can be enforced, such as sticking to one particular software package, or keeping to a particular theme. Adobe Photoshop Photomontage E-mail art Fark. com Photoshop Art Challenges
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Dashboard (macOS)
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Dashboard is an application for Apple Inc. s Mac OS X operating systems, used as a secondary desktop for hosting mini-applications known as widgets. These are intended to be simple applications that do not take time to launch, Dashboard applications supplied with Mac OS X include a stock ticker, weather report, calculator and notepad, users can create or download their own. Before Mac OS X10.7 Lion, when Dashboard is activated, like application windows, they can be moved around, rearranged, deleted, and recreated. New widgets can be opened, via a bar on the bottom of the layer. After loading, the widget is ready for use, Dashboard was first introduced in Mac OS X10.4 Tiger. It can be activated as an application, from the Dock and it can also be accessed by a dashboard key. Alternatively, the user can choose to make Dashboard open on moving the cursor into a hot corner or keyboard shortcut. Starting with Mac OS X10.7 Lion, the Dashboard can be configured as a space, in Mac OS X10.10 Yosemite, the Dashboard is disabled by default, as the Notification Center is now the primary method of displaying widgets. Dashboard widgets, like web pages, are capable of different things. One example is the Google Search widget, which opens up the users browser. Other widgets, like Wikipedia, grab the contents of web pages, some widgets can also serve as games, using Adobe Flash to create games just as if they were in a browser. It is also possible for Mac users to create their own widgets using built-in software, Dashboard uses a variety of graphical effects for displaying, opening, and using widgets. On sufficiently powered Macs, widgets will produce an effect when they are opened. As with Exposé, Front Row and the effect, holding shift down while calling the Dashboard or opening the Dashboard menu bar will display the effect in slow motion. Dashboard widgets are created using Hypertext Markup Language, Cascading Style Sheets, because the same languages are used for creating websites, many web developers can already build them. There is widget API allows the widgets to use Mac-specific interface elements such as the Apple Slider. wdgt, more complex widgets may also include a Cocoa widget plugin, one or more JavaScript files or multiple images. Mac OS X10.5 Leopard includes an application called Dashcode, another new feature of Mac OS X10.5 Leopard is called Web Clip which lets users easily create widgets from parts of a webpage. The user can customize the border to further personalize the widgets
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Software widget
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A software widget is a relatively simple and easy-to-use software application or component made for one or more different software platforms. A desk accessory or applet is an example of a simple, stand-alone user interface and these widgets are typical examples of transient and auxiliary applications that dont monopolize the users attention. Because the term, and the practice, has been extant since at least the 1980s. A Graphical control element is part of a user interface that allows a computer user to control. A Widget toolkit is a set of programming tools that help developers reuse GUI widgets to build a user interface. A desktop widget is a specialized GUI widget intended to run on a desktop for computer users to control simple utility functions such as clocks, messaging services. A mobile widget is the equivalent for mobile devices. A widget application is a third party web widget developed for a social network platform. Social network companies such as Facebook and Myspace host these applications, at present, there is no fee or payment between developers and social network platforms, and attempts to realize revenue from widgets have been relatively unsuccessful. Disclosure widgets are specific types of GUI widgets that may be hidden or expanded by computer users, a metawidget is a GUI widget for controlling the operation of other widgets within a GUI. A widget engine is the platform on which desktop or web engines run. The widget model in widget engines is attractive because of ease of development, most of these widgets can be created with a few images and about 10 to several hundred lines of XML/JavaScript/VBScript source code. A single host software system, such as a web browser and this allows several desktop widgets to be built sharing resources and code. The term widget engine is not to be confused with that of a widget toolkit, toolkits are used by GUI programmers, who combine several widgets to form a single application. A widget in a toolkit provides a single, low level interaction, on the other hand, widget engines such as desktop widgets and web widgets are intended for end users. Desktop and web widgets are stand-alone, task-oriented applications which can be composed of several related interactions on its own, a graphical control element represents a part of a graphical user interface which the user can use to interact with the program to which the GUI belongs to. Graphical control elements are implemented like subroutines, Widget toolkits and software frameworks, like e. g. GTK+ or Qt, contain them in software libraries so that programmers can use them to build GUIs for their programs. Graphical user interface builders, such as e. g. Glade Interface Designer, Widgets can provide or augment the graphical shell
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Windows Desktop Gadgets
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Windows Desktop Gadgets is a discontinued widget engine for Microsoft Gadgets. It was introduced with Windows Vista, in which it features a sidebar anchored to the side of the desktop and its widgets can perform various tasks, such as displaying the time and date and showing the CPU usage. Windows Desktop Gadgets was discontinued in Windows 8, the Windows 8 Live Tiles can perform a similar function, but they are only visible when the Start menu is visible. They, run in a restrictive environment, making them less risky. Windows Sidebar originated in a Microsoft Research project called Sideshow It was developed in the summer of 2000 and it included a clock, traffic reports, and IM integration. Windows Sidebar was rebuilt and began to appear in Windows Vista builds in the half of 2005. s Mac OS X v10.4. In Windows 7, Windows Sidebar was renamed Windows Desktop Gadgets, Windows Desktop Gadgets was included in all beta releases of Windows 8 but did not make to the final release. Instead, on 10 July 2012 Microsoft issued security advisory to disable Sidebar, Windows Desktop Gadgets is a feature of Windows Vista and Windows 7 and is not available on the Windows Server family of operating system. It hosts mini-applications or gadgets which are a combination of scripts and their use cases include displaying system time, downloading and displaying RSS feeds, or controlling other software such as Windows Media Player. In Windows Vista, gadgets can run docked in the sidebar, in Windows 7, they can float anywhere on the desktop. It is also possible to run multiple instances of a gadget simultaneously, Windows Vista ships with eleven gadgets, Calendar, Clock, Contacts, CPU Meter, Currency Conversion, Feed Headlines, Notes, Picture Puzzle, Slide Show, Stocks, and Weather. Several other gadgets available during the Vista beta such as App Launcher, Feed Viewer, Number Puzzle, Recycle Bin, Windows 7 adds a Media Center gadget and removes the Contacts, Notes and Stocks gadgets. Originally, Microsoft provided a link to a web site called Windows Live Gallery where additional Sidebar gadgets that have created by third-party developers could be downloaded. The site was officially retired on October 1,2011, Windows SideShow for Device Gadgets Desk accessory Gralla, Preston. 2, Hacking the Interface, by John Moscarillo and we have you by the gadgets, A Security Analysis of the Microsoft Windows Sidebar Gadget Platform. Gadget Corner — official Windows Sidebar and Microsoft Gadgets team blog Windows Sidebar Reference on MSDN
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Webcast
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A webcast is a media presentation distributed over the Internet using streaming media technology to distribute a single content source to many simultaneous listeners/viewers. A webcast may either be distributed live or on demand, essentially, webcasting is broadcasting over the Internet. The largest webcasters include existing radio and TV stations, who simulcast their output through online TV or online radio streaming, Webcasting usually consists of providing non-interactive linear streams or events. Rights and licensing bodies offer specific webcasting licenses to those wishing to carry out Internet broadcasting using copyrighted material, Webcasting is used extensively in the commercial sector for investor relations presentations, in e-learning, and for related communications activities. However, webcasting does not bear much, if any, relationship to web conferencing, the ability to webcast using cheap/accessible technology has allowed independent media to flourish. There are many notable independent shows that broadcast regularly online, often produced by average citizens in their homes they cover many interests and topics. Webcasts relating to computers, technology, and news are particularly popular, Webcasting differs from podcasting in that webcasting refers to live streaming while podcasting simply refers to media files placed on the Internet. Webcasting is the distribution of media files through the internet, pakman from Apple, they launched the Macintosh New York Music Festival from July 17–22,1995. This event audio webcast concerts from more than 15 clubs in New York City, Apple later webcast a concert by Metallica on June 10,1996 live from Slims in San Francisco. In 1995, Benford E. Standley produced one of the first audio/video webcasts in history, on August 13,1998, it is generally believed the first webcast wedding took place, between Alan Knecht and Carrie Silverman in Toronto Canada. The live signal was broadcast via satellite to PA, then encoded and streamed via the BGEA website, the first teleconferenced/webcast wedding to date is believed to have occurred on December 31,1998. Dale Ficken and Lorrie Scarangella wed on this date as they stood in a church in Pennsylvania, on November 4,1994, Stef van der Ziel distributed the first live video images over the web from the Simplon venue in Groningen. On November 7,1994, WXYC, the radio station of the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill became the first radio station in the world to broadcast its signal over the internet. Translated versions including Subtitling are now possible using SMIL Synchronized Multimedia Integration Language, a wedcast is a webcast of a wedding. It allows family and friends of the couple to watch the wedding in time on the Internet. Webcasting a funeral is also a service provided by funeral homes. Although it has been around for a decade, cheaper broadband, the strain of travel. International Webcasting Association Media clip Podcast Streaming media Synchronized Multimedia Integration Language Video blog Web radio Webisode Webinar PR Newswire
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Twitter
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Twitter is an online news and social networking service where users post and interact with messages, tweets, restricted to 140 characters. Registered users can post tweets, but those who are unregistered can only read them, users access Twitter through its website interface, SMS or a mobile device app. Twitter Inc. is based in San Francisco, California, United States, Twitter was created in March 2006 by Jack Dorsey, Noah Glass, Biz Stone, and Evan Williams and launched in July. The service rapidly gained worldwide popularity, in 2012, more than 100 million users posted 340 million tweets a day, and the service handled an average of 1.6 billion search queries per day. In 2013, it was one of the ten most-visited websites and has described as the SMS of the Internet. As of 2016, Twitter had more than 319 million monthly active users. On the day of the 2016 U. S. presidential election, Twitter proved to be the largest source of breaking news, Twitters origins lie in a daylong brainstorming session held by board members of the podcasting company Odeo. Jack Dorsey, then a student at New York University. The original project name for the service was twttr, an idea that Williams later ascribed to Noah Glass, inspired by Flickr. The developers initially considered 10958 as a code, but later changed it to 40404 for ease of use. Work on the project started on March 21,2006, when Dorsey published the first Twitter message at 9,50 PM Pacific Standard Time, Dorsey has explained the origin of the Twitter title. we came across the word twitter, and it was just perfect. The definition was a short burst of inconsequential information, and chirps from birds, and thats exactly what the product was. The first Twitter prototype, developed by Dorsey and contractor Florian Weber, was used as a service for Odeo employees. Williams fired Glass, who was silent about his part in Twitters startup until 2011, Twitter spun off into its own company in April 2007. Williams provided insight into the ambiguity that defined this early period in a 2013 interview, With Twitter and they called it a social network, they called it microblogging, but it was hard to define, because it didnt replace anything. There was this path of discovery with something like that, where over time you figure out what it is, Twitter actually changed from what we thought it was in the beginning, which we described as status updates and a social utility. It is that, in part, but the insight we eventually came to was Twitter was really more of an information network than it is a social network, the tipping point for Twitters popularity was the 2007 South by Southwest Interactive conference. During the event, Twitter usage increased from 20,000 tweets per day to 60,000, the Twitter people cleverly placed two 60-inch plasma screens in the conference hallways, exclusively streaming Twitter messages, remarked Newsweeks Steven Levy
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Software release life cycle
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Usage of the alpha/beta test terminology originated at IBM. As long ago as the 1950s, IBM used similar terminology for their hardware development, a test was the verification of a new product before public announcement. B test was the verification before releasing the product to be manufactured, C test was the final test before general availability of the product. Martin Belsky, a manager on some of IBMs earlier software projects claimed to have invented the terminology, IBM dropped the alpha/beta terminology during the 1960s, but by then it had received fairly wide notice. The usage of beta test to refer to testing done by customers was not done in IBM, rather, IBM used the term field test. Pre-alpha refers to all activities performed during the project before formal testing. These activities can include requirements analysis, software design, software development, in typical open source development, there are several types of pre-alpha versions. Milestone versions include specific sets of functions and are released as soon as the functionality is complete, the alpha phase of the release life cycle is the first phase to begin software testing. In this phase, developers generally test the software using white-box techniques, additional validation is then performed using black-box or gray-box techniques, by another testing team. Moving to black-box testing inside the organization is known as alpha release, alpha software can be unstable and could cause crashes or data loss. Alpha software may not contain all of the features that are planned for the final version, in general, external availability of alpha software is uncommon in proprietary software, while open source software often has publicly available alpha versions. The alpha phase usually ends with a freeze, indicating that no more features will be added to the software. At this time, the software is said to be feature complete, Beta, named after the second letter of the Greek alphabet, is the software development phase following alpha. Software in the stage is also known as betaware. Beta phase generally begins when the software is complete but likely to contain a number of known or unknown bugs. Software in the phase will generally have many more bugs in it than completed software, as well as speed/performance issues. The focus of beta testing is reducing impacts to users, often incorporating usability testing, the process of delivering a beta version to the users is called beta release and this is typically the first time that the software is available outside of the organization that developed it. Beta version software is useful for demonstrations and previews within an organization
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Neuros Technology
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Neuros Technology is a Chicago, Illinois–based company that produces a number of audio and video devices with the brand name Neuros. Founded by Joe Born in 2001 as a division of Digital Innovations, in its development model, end users are involved throughout the product development process from reviewing initial concepts to Beta testing initial product releases. The Neuros LINK is an open set-top device designed to bring Internet television and other video to the television, the Neuros LINK supports the webs open standards allows Internet television sites to be viewed directly on a television set. The Neuros LINK is positioned between three categories, a HTPC, digital media receiver, and the standard Internet-to-television devices or set-top-boxes, the Neuros OSD is a device to archive, organize, and play video content. It can record any source with composite output including DVD players, VCRs. The video input is converted to MP4 format and then output to a device, either a memory card. The successor to the Neuros MPEG4 Recorder, the Neuros OSD was released to initial production on September 20,2006, the development platform uses a Texas Instruments DM320 system on chip, comprising an ARM926EJ core and a TI C54x DSP core. This design will support the DM320s High Performance mode of operation, the maximum ARM clock is then specified as 203 MHz. The DSP is rated in excess of 120 MHz, the Neuros Digital Audio Computer is a portable audio unit designed for playback and recording of audio in MP3, Ogg Vorbis, WAV, and DRM-free WMA formats. Neuros DACs feature a design, separating the unit into a player. The player unit is upgradeable by firmware upgrade from the website, the intended purpose of these design decisions are that you can upgrade your player/backpack without paying for an entirely new model. There are currently two types of backpacks, the smaller backpack contains just a pair of NiMH batteries, so the player depends on the internal flash memory to store music. The larger backpack contains a LiIon battery and a 2. 5-inch hard drive. The main difference between Neuros1 and Neuros2 players is the backpack on Neuros2 has a USB2.0 connector allowing it to be used, independently of the player unit, the Neuros DAC is not currently in production, but a third version of the product has been rumored. It is capable of recording and playing back MPEG-4 and has several unique consumer benefits like ignoring Macrovisions automatic gain control copy protection, the Recorder was first released to the public on February 9,2005 in woot. coms first product launch. That launch was part of Neuros Technologys gamma test program and consisted of 850 units sold at $119.99 each, Neuros uses many of the tools of the open-source world to not only collaborate on building the software but to get user feedback on features and implementation as well. Products are typically launched explicitly before the software is complete under Beta, as community members develop new features, often in response to posted bounties, Neuros promotes that work to other users and gauges reaction. This crowdsourced process has been viewed by some as a hybrid between traditional market research and open-source collaboration and this also allows the devices to be adapted for other purposes than the advertised uses, such as including home and auto-security recording
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April Fools' Day
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April Fools Day is celebrated every year on April 1 by playing practical jokes and spreading hoaxes. The jokes and their victims are called April fools, people playing April Fool jokes expose their prank by shouting April Fool. Some newspapers, magazines, and other published media report fake stories, although popular since the 19th century, the day is not a public holiday in any country. Geoffrey Chaucers The Canterbury Tales contains the first recorded association between April 1 and foolishness, the custom of setting aside a day for the playing of harmless pranks upon ones neighbor is recognized widely throughout the world. Some precursors of April Fools Day include the Roman festival of Hilaria, in Chaucers Canterbury Tales, the Nuns Priests Tale is set Syn March bigan thritty dayes and two. Modern scholars believe there is a copying error in the extant manuscripts. Thus the passage originally meant 32 days after March, i. e.2 May, the anniversary of the engagement of King Richard II of England to Anne of Bohemia, readers apparently misunderstood this line to mean 32 March, i. e. April 1. In Chaucers tale, the vain cock Chauntecleer is tricked by a fox, in 1508, French poet Eloy dAmerval referred to a poisson d’avril, a possible reference to the holiday. In 1539, Flemish poet Eduard de Dene wrote of a nobleman who sent his servants on foolish errands on April 1, in 1686, John Aubrey referred to the holiday as Fooles holy day, the first British reference. On April 1,1698, several people were tricked into going to the Tower of London to see the Lions washed, in the Middle Ages, New Years Day was celebrated on March 25 in most European towns. In some areas of France, New Years was a week-long holiday ending on April 1, some writers suggest that April Fools originated because those who celebrated on January 1 made fun of those who celebrated on other dates. The use of January 1 as New Years Day was common in France by the century. In the Netherlands, the origin of April Fools Day is often attributed to the Dutch victory at Brielle in 1572, op 1 april verloor Alva zijn bril. is a Dutch proverb, which can be translated to, On the first of April, Alva lost his glasses. In this case, the serve as a metaphor for Brielle. This theory, however, provides no explanation for the celebration of April Fools Day. Although no Biblical scholar or historian are known to have mentioned a relationship, in a 1908 edition of the Harpers Weekly cartoonist newspaper, Bertha R. McDonald wrote, authorities gravely back with it to the time of Noah, in the UK, an April Fool joke is revealed by shouting April fool. At the recipient, who becomes the April fool, a study in the 1950s, by folklorists Iona and Peter Opie, found that in the UK, and in countries whose traditions derived from the UK, the joking ceased at midday
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Winery
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A winery is a building or property that produces wine, or a business involved in the production of wine, such as a wine company. Some wine companies own many wineries, besides wine making equipment, larger wineries may also feature warehouses, bottling lines, laboratories, and large expanses of tanks known as tank farms. The oldest winery in the world found to date is a 6, 000-year-old winery in the Areni region of Armenia, wineries typically employ winemakers to produce various wines from grapes by following the winemaking process. This process involves the fermentation of fruit, as well as blending and aging of the juice, the grapes may be from vineyards owned by the winery or may be brought in from other locations. Many wineries also give tours and have doors or tasting rooms where customers can taste wines before they make a purchase. Winery architecture is varied and rich and it is used by wineries as a way to promote their wines. The east coast of the United States also has winemaking regions like New Yorks Finger Lakes region, Aquidneck Island, RI and Long Island, NY and Cape May, wineries do not have to be located adjacent to vineyards, grapes can be shipped anywhere. In addition, people make out of other fruits and plants. For example, a winery in Hawaii produces pineapple wine, a class of winery license known as the farm winery allows farms to produce and sell wines on site. Farm wineries differ from commercial wineries in that the fruit which is the source of the wine is produced on the farm. States such as New York have given a permit to open a satellite store in a tourist area. New Yorks passing of the Farm Winery Act of 1976 set an example for other states to pass similar laws, Farm wineries usually operate at a smaller scale than commercial wineries. Farm wineries are a form of value added marketing, known as agritourism, a micro-winery is a small wine producer that does not have its own vineyard, and instead sources its grape product from outside suppliers. The concept is similar to a microbrewery, in small batches of product are made primarily for local consumption. The concept of the micro-winery is not as accepted as that of the microbrewery, however. A winery uses similar wine-making equipment as a commercial winery. Glass carboys and sanitary plastic pails are often seen in the facilities of a micro-winery, New York State provides a specific micro-winery license that requires the microwinery to purchase local ingredients. Wilridge Winery was the first urban winery in Seattle, wine aficionados traditionally had to travel to remote areas to learn about winemaking firsthand and to taste the offerings of a wine producer in the setting in which they were made
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Screen printing
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Screen printing is a printing technique whereby a mesh is used to transfer ink onto a substrate, except in areas made impermeable to the ink by a blocking stencil. A blade or squeegee is moved across the screen to fill the open mesh apertures with ink, and this causes the ink to wet the substrate and be pulled out of the mesh apertures as the screen springs back after the blade has passed. Screen printing is also a method of print making in which a design is imposed on a screen of polyester or other fine mesh. Ink is forced into the mesh openings by the blade or squeegee and by wetting the substrate. As the screen away from the substrate the ink remains on the substrate. It is also known as silk-screen, screen, serigraphy, one color is printed at a time, so several screens can be used to produce a multicoloured image or design. There are various terms used for what is essentially the same technique, traditionally the process was called screen printing or silkscreen printing because silk was used in the process prior to the invention of polyester mesh. Currently, synthetic threads are used in the screen printing process. The most popular mesh in general use is made of polyester, there are special-use mesh materials of nylon and stainless steel available to the screen printer. There are also different types of mesh size which will determine the outcome, Screen printing first appeared in a recognizable form in China during the Song Dynasty. It was then adapted by other Asian countries like Japan, and was furthered by creating newer methods, Roy Beck, Charles Peter and Edward Owens studied and experimented with chromic acid salt sensitized emulsions for photo-reactive stencils. Commercial screen printing now uses sensitizers far safer and less toxic than bichromates, currently there are large selections of pre-sensitized and user mixed sensitized emulsion chemicals for creating photo-reactive stencils. Serigraphy is a word formed from Latin sēricum and Greek graphein. The Printers National Environmental Assistance Center says Screenprinting is arguably the most versatile of all printing processes, credit is generally given to the artist Andy Warhol for popularising screen printing as an artistic technique, identified as serigraphy, in the United States. Sister Mary Corita Kent, gained fame for her vibrant serigraphs during the 1960s and 1970s. Her works were rainbow colored, contained words that were political and fostered peace and love and caring. American entrepreneur, artist and inventor Michael Vasilantone started to use, develop, Vasilantone later filed for patent on his invention in 1967 granted number 3,427,964 on February 18,1969. The original machine was manufactured to print logos and team information on bowling garments, the Vasilantone patent was licensed by multiple manufacturers, the resulting production and boom in printed T-shirts made this garment screen printing machine popular
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Seattle
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Seattle is a seaport city on the west coast of the United States and the seat of King County, Washington. With an estimated 684,451 residents as of 2015, Seattle is the largest city in both the state of Washington and the Pacific Northwest region of North America. In July 2013, it was the major city in the United States. The city is situated on an isthmus between Puget Sound and Lake Washington, about 100 miles south of the Canada–United States border, a major gateway for trade with Asia, Seattle is the fourth-largest port in North America in terms of container handling as of 2015. The Seattle area was inhabited by Native Americans for at least 4,000 years before the first permanent European settlers. Arthur A. Denny and his group of travelers, subsequently known as the Denny Party, arrived from Illinois via Portland, the settlement was moved to the eastern shore of Elliott Bay and named Seattle in 1852, after Chief Siahl of the local Duwamish and Suquamish tribes. Logging was Seattles first major industry, but by the late-19th century, growth after World War II was partially due to the local Boeing company, which established Seattle as a center for aircraft manufacturing. The Seattle area developed as a technology center beginning in the 1980s, in 1994, Internet retailer Amazon was founded in Seattle. The stream of new software, biotechnology, and Internet companies led to an economic revival, Seattle has a noteworthy musical history. From 1918 to 1951, nearly two dozen jazz nightclubs existed along Jackson Street, from the current Chinatown/International District, to the Central District, the jazz scene developed the early careers of Ray Charles, Quincy Jones, Ernestine Anderson, and others. Seattle is also the birthplace of rock musician Jimi Hendrix and the alternative rock subgenre grunge, archaeological excavations suggest that Native Americans have inhabited the Seattle area for at least 4,000 years. By the time the first European settlers arrived, the people occupied at least seventeen villages in the areas around Elliott Bay, the first European to visit the Seattle area was George Vancouver, in May 1792 during his 1791–95 expedition to chart the Pacific Northwest. In 1851, a party led by Luther Collins made a location on land at the mouth of the Duwamish River. Thirteen days later, members of the Collins Party on the way to their claim passed three scouts of the Denny Party, members of the Denny Party claimed land on Alki Point on September 28,1851. The rest of the Denny Party set sail from Portland, Oregon, after a difficult winter, most of the Denny Party relocated across Elliott Bay and claimed land a second time at the site of present-day Pioneer Square, naming this new settlement Duwamps. For the next few years, New York Alki and Duwamps competed for dominance, david Swinson Doc Maynard, one of the founders of Duwamps, was the primary advocate to name the settlement after Chief Sealth of the Duwamish and Suquamish tribes. The name Seattle appears on official Washington Territory papers dated May 23,1853, in 1855, nominal land settlements were established. On January 14,1865, the Legislature of Territorial Washington incorporated the Town of Seattle with a board of managing the city
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Washington (state)
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It was admitted to the Union as the 42nd state in 1889. Washington is sometimes referred to as Washington State or the State of Washington to distinguish it from Washington, Washington is the 18th largest state with an area of 71,362 square miles, and the 13th most populous state with over 7 million people. Washington is the second most populous state on the West Coast and in the Western United States, Mount Rainier, an active stratovolcano, is the states highest elevation at almost 14,411 feet and is the most topographically prominent mountain in the contiguous United States. Washington is a leading lumber producer and its rugged surface is rich in stands of Douglas fir, hemlock, ponderosa pine, white pine, spruce, larch, and cedar. Manufacturing industries in Washington include aircraft and missiles, shipbuilding and other equipment, lumber, food processing, metals and metal products, chemicals. Washington has over 1,000 dams, including the Grand Coulee Dam, built for a variety of purposes including irrigation, power, flood control, the Washington Territory was named after George Washington, the first President of the United States. The area was part of a region called the Columbia District after the Columbia River. The area was renamed Washington in order to avoid confusion with the District of Columbia, Washington is the only U. S. state named after a president. To distinguish it from the U. S. capital, which is named for George Washington, Washington is sometimes referred to as Washington State, or, in more formal contexts. Washingtonians and other residents of the Pacific Northwest refer to the state simply as Washington, calling the nations capital Washington, D. C. or, often, Washington is the northwestern-most state of the contiguous United States. Washington is bordered by Oregon to the south, with the Columbia River forming the western part, to the west of Washington lies the Pacific Ocean. The high mountains of the Cascade Range run north-south, bisecting the state, from the Cascade Mountains westward, Western Washington has a mostly marine west coast climate, with mild temperatures and wet winters, autumns and springs, and relatively dry summers. The Cascade Range contains several volcanoes, which reach altitudes significantly higher than the rest of the mountains, from the north to the south, these major volcanoes are Mount Baker, Glacier Peak, Mount Rainier, Mount St. Helens, and Mount Adams. Mount Rainier, the tallest mountain in the state, is 50 miles south of the city of Seattle and it is also covered with more glacial ice than any other peak in the contiguous 48 states. Western Washington also is home of the Olympic Mountains, far west on the Olympic Peninsula and these deep forests, such as the Hoh Rainforest, are among the only temperate rainforests in the continental United States. Eastern Washington – the part of the state east of the Cascades – has a dry climate. It includes large areas of steppe and a few truly arid deserts lying in the rain shadow of the Cascades. Farther east, the climate becomes less arid, with annual rainfall increasing as one goes east to 21.2 inches in Pullman, the Okanogan Highlands and the rugged Kettle River Range and Selkirk Mountains cover much of the northeastern quadrant of the state
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American Apparel
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American Apparel Inc. was a North American clothing manufacturer, designer, distributor, marketer and retailer based in Los Angeles, California. Founded by Dov Charney in 1989 and it was a vertically integrated company that ranked as one of the largest apparel manufacturers and marketers in North America. The company, which had not made a profit since 2009 and it was reported that the brand then agreed to a plan with its creditors to convert $200 million of debt into equity, $90 million in debtor financing and $70 million in new capital. In January 2017, American Apparel laid off 2,400 Southern California workers and started the process of shutting down company factories, American Apparel was founded in 1989 by Canadian Dov Charney. In 1997 after a variety of iterations, including a period of manufacturing in South Carolina, Charney began to sub-contract sewing with Sam Lim who, at the time, had a shop with 50 workers under the Interstate 10 freeway in east LA. Months later the two became partners, after its experience as a wholesale brand, the company moved into the retail market. The company was ranked 308th in Inc. s 2005 list of the 500 fastest growing companies in the United States, with a 440% three-year growth, in late 2006 American Apparel went through a reverse merger and became listed on the American Stock Exchange. It is also one of the few clothing companies exporting Made in the USA goods, the company promotes labor policies that exclude use of clothing manufactured in sweatshops. In 2010, American Apparels auditors, Deloitte & Touche, resigned after informing the company that its statements for 2009 may not be reliable. The resignation led to investigation by U. S. Securities and Exchange Commission, in April 2011, American Apparel confirmed that it had secured $14.9 million in financing from a group of Canadian investors. Under the deal announced, American Apparel sold some 15.8 million shares of stock at 90 cents a share to a group of investors led by Michael Serruya. The investors also received warrants to buy as much as 27.4 million additional shares, in April 2013, American Apparel issued a private offering of $206 million in senior secured notes. The proceeds were used to repay a long-standing, high-interest credit facility from Lion Capital and Crystal Financial, in June 2014 the Board of Directors decided to oust its founder, chairman and CEO Dov Charney, after allegations of misconduct. As interim chief executive during the search for a permanent CEO, as co-chairmen the company appointed Allan Mayer and David Danziger. Charney, through his lawyers, claimed his ousting was illegal, soon after, Lion Capital demanded the repayment of a $10 million loan four years early. A failure to repay the loan would trigger a default on a $50 million credit line with Capital One Financial, in December 2014 American Apparel announced the official termination of CEO Dov Charney and the promotion of fashion executive Paula Schneider to that position. As of September 2015, American Apparel was trying hard to avoid bankruptcy as it scrambled to raise money to pay down US $15.4 million debt due in October,2015. It was struggling to find funds as it prepared to report a torrid set of results in the coming weeks
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Yahoo!
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Yahoo Inc. is an American multinational technology company headquartered in Sunnyvale, California. Yahoo was founded by Jerry Yang and David Filo in January 1994 and was incorporated on March 2,1995, Yahoo was one of the pioneers of the early internet era in the 1990s. Marissa Mayer, a former Google executive, Google Employee number 20 and it is globally known for its Web portal, search engine Yahoo. Search, and related services, including Yahoo, answers, advertising, online mapping, video sharing, fantasy sports, and its social media website. It is one of the most popular sites in the United States, according to news sources, roughly 700 million people visit Yahoo websites every month. Yahoo itself claims it attracts more than half a billion consumers every month in more than 30 languages, in January 1994 Yang and Filo were electrical engineering graduate students at Stanford University, when they created a website named Jerry and Davids guide to the World Wide Web. The site was a directory of websites, organized in a hierarchy. In March 1994, Jerry and Davids Guide to the World Wide Web was renamed Yahoo, the yahoo. com domain was created on January 18,1995. The word yahoo is a backronym for Yet Another Hierarchically Organized Oracle or Yet Another Hierarchical Officious Oracle, the term hierarchical described how the Yahoo database was arranged in layers of subcategories. However, Filo and Yang insist they mainly selected the name because they liked the definition of a yahoo, rude, unsophisticated. This meaning derives from the Yahoo race of beings from Gullivers Travels. Yahoo grew rapidly throughout the 1990s, like many search engines and web directories, Yahoo added a web portal. By 1998, Yahoo was the most popular starting point for web users and it also made many high-profile acquisitions. Its stock price skyrocketed during the bubble, Yahoo stocks closing at an all-time high of $118.75 a share on January 3,2000. However, after the bubble burst, it reached a post-bubble low of $8.11 on September 26,2001. Yahoo began using Google for search in 2000, over the next four years, it developed its own search technologies, which it began using in 2004. In response to Googles Gmail, Yahoo began to offer unlimited email storage in 2007, the company struggled through 2008, with several large layoffs. In February 2008, Microsoft Corporation made a bid to acquire Yahoo for $44.6 billion
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Jeff Bezos
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The company began as an Internet merchant of books and expanded to a wide variety of products and services, most recently video streaming and audio streaming. Amazon. com is currently the worlds largest Internet sales company on the World Wide Web, Bezos’s other diversified business interests include aerospace and newspapers. He is the founder and manufacturer of Blue Origin with test flights to space beginning in 2015, in 2013, Bezos purchased The Washington Post newspaper. A number of other investments are managed through Bezos Expeditions. Bezos is currently the second-richest person in the world, with a net worth of US$77.1 billion as of March 2017. His rise to this occurred after Amazon registered a 67% jump in share price. Bezos was born Jeffrey Preston Jorgensen to Jacklyn and Ted Jorgensen in Albuquerque and his maternal ancestors were settlers who lived in Texas, and over the generations acquired a 25, 000-acre ranch near Cotulla. As of March 2015, Bezos was among the largest landholders in Texas, Bezos’s maternal grandfather was a regional director of the U. S. He retired early to the ranch, where Bezos spent many summers as a youth, at an early age, he displayed mechanical aptitude—as a toddler, he even dismantled his crib with a screwdriver. Bezos’s mother Jacklyn was a teenager at the time of his birth and her marriage to Jorgensen lasted a little more than a year. In April 1968 she married her husband, Miguel Bezos. His family was originally from Valladolid, Miguel Bezos worked his way through the University of Albuquerque, married Jacklyn, and legally adopted his stepson Jeff, who changed his surname from Jorgensen to Bezos. After the wedding the family moved to Houston and Miguel worked as an engineer for Exxon, the young Jeff attended River Oaks Elementary School in Houston from fourth to sixth grade. As a child, he spent summers working on his grandfathers ranch in southern Texas, Bezos often displayed scientific interests and technological proficiency, he once rigged an electric alarm to keep his younger siblings out of his room. The family moved to Miami, Florida, where he attended Miami Palmetto High School, while in high school, he attended the Student Science Training Program at the University of Florida, receiving a Silver Knight Award in 1982. He was high school valedictorian and was a National Merit Scholar, Bezos graduated summa cum laude and Phi Beta Kappa from Princeton University with bachelor of science degrees in electrical engineering and computer science. While at Princeton, he was elected to Tau Beta Pi. He served as the president of the Princeton chapter of the Students for the Exploration, in 2016 Bezos played a Starfleet official in the movie Star Trek Beyond, later joining the cast and crew at a San Diego Comic-Con screening
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Tony Hsieh
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Tony Hsieh is an American internet entrepreneur and venture capitalist. He is the CEO of the shoe and clothing shop Zappos. Prior to joining Zappos, Hsieh co-founded the internet advertising network LinkExchange, both of his parents came from Taiwan. Tony Hsieh was born in Illinois and grew up in the San Francisco Bay area of California and he has two younger brothers, Andy Hsieh and Dave Hsieh. In 1995, he graduated from Harvard University with a degree in computer science, while at Harvard, he managed the Quincy House Grille selling pizza to the students in his dorm, his best customer, Alfred Lin, would later be Zappos’s CFO and COO. After college, Hsieh worked for Oracle Corporation, after five months, Hsieh found himself dissatisfied with the corporate environment and quit to co-found LinkExchange with Sanjay Madan, a college friend and also an ex-Oracle employee. LinkExchange In 1996, Hsieh started developing the idea for a network called LinkExchange. Members were allowed to advertise their site over LinkExchanges network by displaying ads on their website. They launched in March 1996, with Hsieh as CEO, the site grew, and within 90 days LinkExchange had over 20,000 participating web pages and had its banner ads displayed over 10 million times. By 1998, the site had over 400,000 members and 5 million ads rotated daily, in November 1998, LinkExchange sold to Microsoft for $265 million. Venture Frogs After LinkExchange sold to Microsoft, Hsieh co-founded Venture Frogs, the name originated from a dare. One of Hsieh’s friends said she would invest everything if they chose Venture Frogs as the name, and they invested in a variety of tech and Internet startups, including Ask Jeeves, OpenTable and Zappos. Zappos In 1999, Nick Swinmurn approached Hsieh and Lin with the idea of selling shoes online, Hsieh was initially skeptical and almost deleted Swinmurn’s initial voice mail. After Swinmurn mentioned that footwear in the US is a $40 billion market, two months later, Hsieh joined Zappos as the CEO, starting with $1.6 million in 2000. By 2009, revenues reached $1 billion, on July 22,2009, Amazon. com announced the acquisition of Zappos. com in a deal valued at approximately $1.2 billion. Hsieh is said to have made at least $214 million from the sale, jetSuite Hsieh joined JetSuites board in 2011. He led a $7 million round of investment in the growing private very light jet concern, Twitter Hsieh has been an active Twitter user with a substantial following. He has been noted as an influential figure in how Twitter can be used among C-level executives to build a connection with customers, partners
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Werner Vogels
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Werner Hans Peter Vogels is the chief technology officer and Vice President of Amazon. com in charge of driving technology innovation within the company. Vogels has broad internal and external responsibilities, Vogels studied computer science at The Hague University of Applied Sciences finishing in June 1989. Vogels received a Ph. D. in computer science from the Vrije Universiteit Amsterdam, Netherlands supervised by Henri Bal, from 1991 through 1994, he was a senior researcher at INESC in Porto, Portugal. From 1994 until 2004, Dr. Vogels was a research scientist at the Computer Science Department of Cornell University and he mainly conducted research in scalable reliable enterprise systems. He is the author of many conference and journal articles, mainly on distributed systems technologies for enterprise computing systems and he co-founded a company with Kenneth Birman and Robbert van Renesse in 1997 called Reliable Network Solutions, Inc. The company possessed US patents on computer network monitoring and multicast protocols. From 1999 through 2002, he held vice president and chief technology officer positions with the company and he joined Amazon in September 2004 as the director of systems research. He was named chief officer in January 2005 and vice president in March of that year. Vogels maintains a blog focusing on building scalable and robust distributed systems and it was first used to discuss early results of his research. After he joined Amazon. com, the nature of the changed to be more product-oriented with some general technology. Vogels described the technical nature of Amazons infrastructure work in a paper about Amazons Dynamo. He is generally regarded as one of the top experts on ultra-scalable systems. In 2008, it became evident that Vogels was one of the architects behind Amazons approach to cloud computing, during that year Vogels was continuously on the road to promote cloud computing and AWS and its benefits to the industry. Information Week recognized Vogels for educational and promotional role in cloud computing with the 2008 CIO/CTO of the Year award, in an accompanying interview Vogels provides some details of the history of his work at Amazon. Other awards include the 2009 Media Momentum Personality of the Year Award, in 2010 readers of ReadWriteWeb voted on the Clouds Most Influential Executive and selected Vogels with a double digit margin. Dr. Vogels was named a TechTarget Top 10 Cloud Computing Leader in 2010,2011, and 2012, as part of the award Dr. Vogels delivered a lecture Amazon Innovation - Enabling Everyone to Pursue their Dreams in the Caucus Room of the Cannon House Office Building. In 2014 ExecRank ranked Dr. Vogels as the #1 Chief Technology Officer, Vogels is married to Annet Vogels, a former musician with the Netherlands Philharmonic Orchestra. They have two daughters, Laura Vogels and Kim Vogels, who both studied Drama and Theater Arts in London, UK and moved to New York City after completing their studies
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