ISYS1021 Study Guide - Final Guide: Apache Hadoop, Oakland Athletics, Lyft
9 Apr 2017
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Chapter 1: setting the stage: technology and the modern enterprise. Initial public stock offering, the first time a firm makes shares available via a public stock exchange, also known as going public. ". In two decades, india"s tech sector has grown from almost nothing to a billion industry. Technology has enabled the once almost-exclusively-agrarian nation to become a go-to destination for r&d and engineering across sectors as far-flung as aircraft engine design, medical devices, telecom equipment, and microprocessors. If app sales through itunes, alone, were considered a separate business, they would constitute a firm larger than more than half of the companies ranked in the fortune 500. Today smartphones are used by 2 billion people worldwide. By the end of this decade that number will be 4 billion, with 80 percent of adults being smartphone equipped. Today"s farmers use drones to regularly survey crops at closer distances and with greater regularity than satellite or plane flight could ever match.
