MGCR 331 Chapter Notes - Chapter 8: Open-Source Software, Social Graph, Dark Web
20 Apr 2013
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Chapter 8 facebook: building a business from the social graph. Short selling: an attempt to profit from a falling stock price. Short sellers sell shares they don"t own with an obligation of later repayment. They do so in the hope that the price of the sold shares will fall. They then repay share debt with shares purchased at a lower price and pocket the difference between initial share price and repayment price. Dark web: parts of the internet not accessible by google or other search engines. The worry is that such a large part of the web that is controlled by one firm that is closed off will curtail innovation, competition. Cloud: the big group of connected servers that power the site. Open source software powers much of the site --- runs on the linux os and. Other code components written in a variety of languages, such as c)) and.
