Business issues in the US

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[...] He was convinced to disclose information through a statement to the press. Today statements release or press releases from companies have become the norm when companies want to control the information they provide to the public instead of having a journalist investigated on this. He is known for his declaration of principles which you find illustrated here on the slide, in which he basically sums up that his principle is to "supply the press and the public of the United States with accurate information concerning the company". [...]

[...] Legal disputes and courts cases: the browser war The lawsuit against Microsoft happened in the context of the browser war. so there was a federal lawsuit by the US government and the Department of Justice that was brought officially against Microsoft in 1998 and 1999. the context of this lawsuit was browser war (browser: is a navigator with allowed to navigate on the Internet and to search the web for information) Context of the first browser war: a period of intense competition between Microsoft, that had developed its Internet Explorer as a as a navigator to stuff on the way weather and Microsoft was opposed here represented on the left to Netscape navigator developed by the Netscape company so Netscape was actually the company that developed the first browser for customers for commercial use in 1999 and 1995 and the issue the lawsuit is represented here on my graph the issue is that if you look on the on the right the software browser called Explorer which was Microsoft was bundled with bundled to the operating system windows on each computer that was solved with a Microsoft product in other words if a customer bought the computer that had Windows this customer was forced to use Internet Explorer on his or her computer they did not have the choice of another browser that could have been Netscape for example this was considered by the American Justice as a case of Microsoft abusing a dominant position in Microsoft was said to be guilty of anti-competitive practices. [...]

[...] After a specified amount of time the copyright becomes void and the copyrighted item becomes public domain it is like a trademark. Licensing: the creators can sell his or her rights to allowed the use of his or her work under a license/ the copyright owner can sell rights in exchange for Royalties: paid by the user to the owner. these royalties can be huge: In 2018, the Disney company earned $3.06 billion in royalties, from other companies that had licensed Disney characters for example by contrast they gained $1.59 billion in retail sales. [...]

[...] The csq is the 6 corporations control 90% of the media outlets in America (Comcast, Disney, CBS, Viacom, At&T, news corporation) example of AT&T: In 2018 a federal judge authorized AT&T to purchase Time Warner. AT&T was originally a phone company, was a pioneer in Innovations in telecommunication and then it was turn into a media conglomerate that specializes in services (content distribution, services to consumers) mobile phone, cable, Internet providers Decided to buy Time Warner which is a company that is more specialized in producing contact with it some Studios such as Warner Bros or CNN Would there be an issue with the bundling of entertainment content and access to this content in other words would the American consumer be forced to buy services from AT&T to have access to Time Warner content or the other way around Ultimately the US government failed in its attempt to stop the deal, and the merged went ahead example of Comcast: In about the same years 2018 2019 another media giant, owned MBC and also Universal Studios decided to buy the 21th century fox but they lost the bid, but disney was able to get the bid. [...]

[...] Pioneers in management and industrial relations Management have used the automobile industry as an object of study here you have a display of Peter Druckers the concept of corporation a book from 1943 where he provided a description of the modern and innovative management practices that he had observed at General Motors and you have here a book cover that shows how the book has been translated and is a reference. But more importantly we want to turn to the pioneering in industrial relations indeed the methods of production have been implemented successfully without workers cooperation and Ford innovated the tasks to be performed by individual workers and introduced the moving assembly line he also announced a significant increase in the workers' wages, the a day implemented in 1914. Collective bargaining has remained a tradition in the industry, especially through the Union of Auto Workers. [...]