A blog by English language students studying at Kaplan International English in Auckland.
Wednesday, 8 October 2014
Team building Activities is something that all of the members do together for same goal not official and formal like corporate task but just casual and enjoyable. Nowadays, it has been very notable because it is practically functioning to let employees know what is team work, how interdependent they are and an effect of good synergy. This activities are based on making each team member concentrating something by their being willing to do fun activities, so it can improve their dedication ,contribution and loyalty when they go back to their own duties. There are lots of activities in Auckland, such as painting together and raft race. Especially, raft race is intersting, because it has two steps of competitions which are consist of first and second competiton. Second competiton is main and first one is only for getting items which will be used in next real one. Aucklanders are benefited by thoseactivities to improve their fellowship and efficiency of team work.
Tuesday, 7 October 2014
Instagram and Whatssapp taken over by Facebook.
Four years
ago, on March of 2010, Instagram was launched to the market with the idea of
enhance photos and share them in the web. Its creator, Kevin Systrom,and his
ex-classmate Mike Krieger started the company based on the app with a seed
funding from Baseline Ventures ( a firm that focuses on seed investments in
technology companies)
As the time went by, the application was transforming and implementing
new issues like the hashtag, new filters and higher resolution, becoming
Instagram more used and popular.
In April 2012, Facebook announced an offer to acquire the smartphone app
for US$1 billion in cash and stock. At the time the app company just had 13
employees and was comparatively small, however there’s no application as
popular and beloved, with more than 30 million users uploading more than 5
million new pictures per day.
For Facebook was an important investment, its founder expressed: "This is an important milestone for
Facebook because it's the first time we've ever acquired a product and company
with so many users. We don't plan on doing many more of these, if any at all."
The public was concerned about the service that they already knew would
be absorbed by FB, and the investors were concerned about whether it would
contribute to the financial balance of the company.
The Instagram CEO and founder promised the independence of the
application saying:
"It’s important to be clear that Instagram is not
going away. We’ll be working with Facebook to evolve Instagram and build the
network. We’ll continue to add new features to the product and find new ways to
create a better mobile photos experience.
The Instagram app will still be the same one you know
and love. You’ll still have all the same people you follow and that follow
you.You’ll still be able to share to other social networks. And you’ll still
have all the other features that make the app so fun and unique."
As he promised,
the app have been presenting new features, introducing, photo maps and a tool
called Lux for balancing exposure and adjusting brightness, new filters
and higher quality camera, keeping
its independence from Facebook, but creating ways to join both social networks.
Nowadays Instagram has more than 200 million users (more than what Zuckerberg expected) and more than 20 billion pictures are uploaded every day. As well as that, Facebook completes its $22 billion acquisition of WhatsApp recently in cash and stock and hitting with the biggest acquisition in its history.
The founder promise
to keep each application separately as he did it with Instagram, and expect to
bring more connectivity and utility in the communication services.
It’s not known how
will be this new acquisition, but it’s proven that Whatssapp has grown quicker
than the Facebook itself in the last five years having more than 450 million
monthly users around the world.
Citycorp is a US bank which operated around the world in
more than 70 countries merged with Travelers one of the most important
insurances company’s around the world. That deal was made by a stock swap
operation where Travelers purchased all the Citycorp stock for 70 billion of
dollars and replaced each stock of Citycorp with 2,5 stocks of the new company
(City) which means that the shareholders of the both companies will own about
the half of the new company.
After the merge City became the biggest financial company
in the world. the merger just was possible because some US laws about
mergers between financial conglomerates and banks become more flexible because
the pressure from those giants to the US congress, besides the merger was not
totally successful because the insurance department of City keep working by
itself because the lack of synergy between Citycorp and Travelers
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