Chapter 4: Mini-Cases IV Alpha Corp 1. Without considering transmission efficiency, I would recommend installing an internet source capable of transmitting 270,000 bits per second or higher for the Alpha Corp. The Alpha Corp is transmitting 1,000 emails per hour at 1,500 bytes in size, which equals 16.6 emails per minute. This then breaks down to 0.277 emails per second sending 415.5 bytes per second or 3,324 bits per second . Alpha also sends 3,000 Web pages per hour at 40,000 bytes in size, equaling 50 emails per minute or 0.833 per second.
27 Sold 1,200 shares of Black and Decker at $49.25 less a $735 commission. June 2 Purchased 2,500 shares of Merck stock at $72.50 per share plus a $3,890 brokerage fee. 14 Purchased 900 shares of Wal-Mart at $50.25 per share plus a $1,082 commission. 2004 Transactions in Trading Securities Jan. 28 Purchased 2,500 shares of Dell Co. stock at $39.50 per share plus a $2,356 commission. 31 Sold 2,500 shares of Merck at $71.25 per share less a brokerage commission of $2,356.
U.S. LAW VS APPLE Payal Shah Herzing University Madison Abstract Apple Computer Inc., established in 1976 and incorporated from January 3, 1977. The founders of Apple Inc. was a Steve Jobs and Steve Wozniak. Now it is a multinational organization and running so many businesses like consumer electronics, personal computers, computer software, and commercial serves and is also a digital distributor of media content. The Apple in itself is a big name and brand to work with. The Apple Inc. is currently involved in e-books price fixing and it has reached a settlement with 33 states over electronic book price fixing and its paying fine to government around $400 million.
Coinstar Inc., a self-service, coin to cash kiosk wholly owned and operated Redbox. After being monetarily endorsed by McDonald’s Ventures in 2005, Coinstar purchased a 47.3 percent ownership interest in Redbox and thereafter paid $5.1 million to further its ownership share to 51.0 percent. Subsequently, in February 2009, Coinstar purchased the remaining ownership of Redbox for approximately $162.4 million (Gamble, Thompson, and Peteraf). Being the leading provider of money transfer services, Coinstar successfully procured Redbox and consequently projected them into the next realm of business. In 2009, revenues from Redbox's operations accounted for 67.6 percent of Coinstar’s.
| Case Study: Bank of America – Mobile Banking | 7/30/2013 | Jessica A. Mahfoudi AMBA650 Professor Tipple | Bank of America (BofA), originally known as Bank of Italy, was founded in 1904. In 2001 Kenneth Lewis was named the CEO of the bank and within a course of eight years Bank of America bought our several companies including Merrill Lynch, FleetBoston and more. Bank of America is a nationwide bank with over fifty million customers and over 250,000 employees by 2009. As with most banks in the early 2000’s mobile banking was becoming more of a possibility and by 2007 it was introduced to customers. Of course with any new service or product there was great hesitation from customers to use this unfamiliar product.
In 2004, Verizon Communications Inc. (VZ) was added to the Dow Jones Industrial Average, which was an extremely powerful move for Verizon, and for the telecommunications industry (“Marketwatch,” 2012). The company name, “Verizon”, was a combination of the Latin word “veritas”, meaning certainty, and “horizon”, always looking forward toward progress. With this newly merged corporation, Verizon was able to take advantage of the 7.1 million and 72 million potential GTE wireless customers, and 43 million land based Bell Atlantic customers (“Verizon,” 2012). Verizon Communications has several main products and services that are offered to customers, and are more than just a wireless provider. Verizon Wireless is the branch of the company that provides wireless phone and data solutions to consumers.
Daily demand 1,000 connectors Lead time 2 days Safety stock day Kanban size 500 connectors 16.3 Chris Millikan Manufacturing, Inc., is moving to kan-bans to support its telephone switching-board assembly lines. Determine the size of the kanban for subassemblies and the number of kanbans needed. 16.5 Discount-Mart, a major East Coast retailer, wants to determine the economic order quantity (see Chapter 12 for EOQ formulas) for its halogen lamps. It currently buys all halogen lamps from Specialty Lighting Manufacturers, in Atlanta. Annual demand is 2,000 lamps, ordering cost per order is $30, annual carrying cost per lamp is $12.
Daily demand 1,000 connectors Lead time 2 days Safety stock day Kanban size 500 connectors 16.3 Chris Millikan Manufacturing, Inc., is moving to kan-bans to support its telephone switching-board assembly lines. Determine the size of the kanban for subassemblies and the number of kanbans needed. 16.5 Discount-Mart, a major East Coast retailer, wants to determine the economic order quantity (see Chapter 12 for EOQ formulas) for its halogen lamps. It currently buys all halogen lamps from Specialty Lighting Manufacturers, in Atlanta. Annual demand is 2,000 lamps, ordering cost per order is $30, annual carrying cost per lamp is $12.
Below are some key statistics about the 3 major drugstore chains as of July 2010: 1. Walgreens ranks #1 with market cap of $29.33 Billion, $66.25 Billion in revenue, and S&P rating of A+. According to Walgreens, 75% US population lives within 3 miles from its stores. On Oct 1, 2009, Walgreens opened its 7000-th store in Brooklyn, New York. In April 2010, it acquired 258 Duane Reade drug stores in New York Metropolitan area.
Phuong Ta Acct. 201 A Dec. 12, 2013 201 A Writing Assignment: Financial Statement Analysis Compare and contrast: Dell and Apple I. Brief description: Dell vs. Apple Dell, Inc. (Dell) is the third largest Personal Computer (PC) manufacturer in the world. Michael Dell found Dell, Inc. at the age of 19 in 1984 and had become the largest PC supplier to the University of Texas. It was during the beginning of Dell, Inc. that Dell had developed most powerful PC chip.