In 2001 it succeeded in shutting down Napster (the leading on-line source of digital music), and it has threatened thousands of individuals with legal action. [10] This failed to slow the decline in revenue and proved a public-relations disaster. [10] However, some academic studies have suggested that downloads did not cause the decline. [11] Legal digital downloads became widely available with the debut of the iTunes Store in 2003. The popularity of internet music distribution has increased and in 2009 more than a quarter of all recorded music industry revenues worldwide are now coming from digital channels.
Trubey uses his own statistics that do not have a reliable source throughout the article. For example, he mentions that there was a study done on teenagers that 25 percent could name the city where the constitution was written while 75 percent knew where to find the zip code 90210. Some people would wonder how to even how to find a zip code in the first place. Trubey also mentions that Television has grown over the past 60 years and that it just might have been one of the greatest inventions of the 20th century. Even when he thinks the TV is one of the greatest inventions, he means that it is so great that it is an ad-plastered, brainwashing, individuality bleaching, stereotyping, couch-potato making tool of society.
According to cells online.com (n.d.), “Consumer demand quickly outstripped the cellular phone system's 1982 standards, by 1987, cellular phone subscribers exceeded one million, and the airways were crowded.” In 1982 cell phones were mostly owned by wealthy individuals or upper echelon business owners. They were considered a status symbol and since the power needed for them was demanding, they mostly were installed in cars they were not the cell phones of 2008. Over the last 25 years as mobile phones progressed they started to fall in pricing and size, original phones were large and expensive and out of the reach of most consumers. According to PCWorld a study suggested Shah (2007), “Cell phone ownership showed a dramatic increase globally, Wike said. In 2007, 81 percent of the U.S. population owned a cell phone, a 20 percent increase compared to 2002.” In a current figures according to MSNBC Sullivan (2008), “The cell phone industry, ... has some 137 million paying customers in the United States…” The growth for phone ownership is off the charts and along with the enormous sales of the units, technology has kept pace.
We move on to Xbox that has an overwhelming advantage for being in the online gaming business since 2002. This long history of development with examples like Xbox Live gaming service that allows a subscription base platform for multiplayer gaming puts Xbox in the forefront. However the weakness lies in its heavy competition with Playstation, GameCube, and Nintendo Wiki. They are also seeing competition from cell phone users that can download online games to their cell phones. As for Barnes and Noble the shift of sales from the lower priced Kindle is always a playing factor in its demise.
Its Instagram unit has more than 300 million users, while mobile messaging app WhatsApp, which it purchased for $19 billion in cash and stock in 2014, has 700 million users and is growing. (“Forbes Mag.”) Zuckerberg made two major life changes in May 2012. Facebook had its initial public offering, which raised $16 billion, making it the biggest internet IPO in history. How Zuckerberg's company will handle this influx of cash remains to be seen (Williams 56). But Zuckerberg may be looking at more acquisitions.
One of CanGo’s leading competitors, Amazon, was established in 1997, and its primary scope of business was to sell books on the Internet. While many top companies spend millions to market their brands, Amazon puts that money into advancing technology on its website and creating affordable shipping options for its customers (Ante, 2009). The website offers not only books, but a wide variety of products ranging from electronics to home goods. Amazon has expanded six international sites including Canada, China, the United Kingdom, Germany, Japan and France and encompasses their branding strategy by stating "We're not in the book business or the music business. We're in the customer service business.
You could call NASCAR, or the National Association for Stock Car Auto Racing, a successful business but that would be an understatement. NASCAR is the biggest spectators sport in America, out of the 20 highest attended sporting events, in America in 2004, 17 of them were NASCAR events. NASCAR has 75 million Americans follow NASCAR. That is one and three people in the US that follow the sport, and it’s the number two rated regular season sport on TV in America. Their was more than 2 billion dollars in licensing in 2005 and over 200 licensees.
That ‘70s Show Alejandra Carranza Professor: Lever May 15, 2014 Some might not agree but the media plays a big role in today’s society. More and more families own a television if not a television a laptop or video games. The affect of media is overpowering and widespread. All over the world, the media has impacted children and adults; it has been a powerful force in influencing individual’s insights. Especially if “the average American spends about 33 percent of his or her leisure time watching television” (Renzetti and Curran, 151) it gives us a picture that Americans are far by entertain by the media instead of doing something productive.
There are statutory limitations on expenditure for all elections in the UK. * In the States, almost 40 million television viewers watched the Convention speeches of Barack Obama and Sarah Palin in 2008. No party conference speech in Britain would attract more than a few million. * American presidential candidates have been taking part in televised debates since 1960. British political leaders only agreed to televised debates for the first time in the General Election of 2010.
Penton Media, 7 Feb. 2000 Web. 16 Feb. 2006. One-third of the 4,000 executives surveyed three months ago by Management Recruiters International Inc. (MRI) said that even though 80% of their management-level employees now have access to the Internet from desktop personal computers, their companies did not have a policy in place to govern the use of computers and e-mail in the workplace. Flynn, Nancy. “Internet Policies.” ePolicy Institute.