What are values and business functions in IT corporations?

Facebook has celebrated its one-billion-active-subscriber population to convince how it has generated the customer-based online-ad-monetizing platform. One of unimpressive performances is to experience a share price drop since its IPO in May, 2012, dissuading investors and analysts over how Facebook can survive in a long-run. Now it has refocused on so-called potential-customer-selling transaction to business firms that want to approach specific customers who have used Facebook pages and accessed to Facebook’s features. Everyone is waiting for real revenue results.

Pioneering and Leading Technologies and Governments in U.S. and Japan

U.S. and Japan have a few similar political and economic patterns; even Japan has favored group interests and cultural values in running the national political ideologies and government-guided economic policies. U.S Congress, both houses, is controlled by Democrat and Republican for centuries compared to Japan’s the Diet influenced and controlled by two big parties – Democratic Party of Japan and Liberal Democratic Party – and other smaller parties – People’s Life First, New Komeito, Your Party and others. Japan’s Prime Minister Candidate is nominated by the winning party at the lower house of the Diet. That party will choose the current president of the party as New Prime Minister of Japan. The new Prime Minister will choose members of the new cabinet. U.S. Congress runs with two houses – Senate and Representative. A senator has a 6-year-term office and a representative has a 2-year-term office. American voters choose a candidate for White House each very-four-year. Republicans and Democrats will nominate their U.S. President candidates for U.S. President Election. Japan and U.S. also approve new policies by opinions and decisions of legislators – members of U.S Congress and members of the Diet.

Consumer electronic products and Software Development

To offer alternative OS versions as strategic and competitive tools to Microsoft Window, Apple OS, Google Chrome OS and Open Linux variants. HP has tried to add new values into its computer products and software development by introducing its new released WebOS to open source communities. It is called LunaCe, ideally running on a Legacy TouchPad Tablets. Google’s Chrome OS has just been tested on Samsung’s Chromebooks with prices from $500 to $350. If both Google and HP can improve their new open-source-code OS versions, mostly compatible with tablets and Smartphone, two corporations will have more powerful edges to gain some market shares from Microsoft’s dominated Window OS. Apple has raised its market capitalization by shortening each new released product cycle of iPhone and iPad to generate substantial profit margins from the global market. The patent battle with Samsung is another proof of explaining how Apple needs to dominate Smartphone and tablet markets. Samsung has used Google’s Android OS. Samsung has leveraged its market competitive strategies to offer new Smartphones running Window Phone OS. HP has tried to catch up the mainstream consumers’ tastes to develop its own WebOS compatible for tablets.

Smartphone and Smartthings in Modern Societies

“Smartphone” and “SmartThings” are new tech-driven terminologies that have re-defined human lives or societies in three dimensional living spaces – (a) personal communication, (b) working tool assistance, and (d) personal entertainment experience. “Personal communication” has provided both convenient and flexible methods of personal communication – anywhere and anytime; including affordable and cheaper costs per minute or bandwidth of data speed and data usage. Text messages, live-time video conference and more are added into Smartphone and Smart devices. “Working tool assistance” is all embedded hi-tech functions and computing applications automatically or manually executed by users to fulfill special tasks. GPS, Map, and thousands of new apps are monthly and yearly added to provide more working tool assistances in all perspectives of personal and business activities. Interactive restaurant menus, shopping picture and video catalogs and mobile banking apps are among daily convenient tools. People can take control more of their lifestyles and working behaviors from Smartphone and Smart handheld devices. “Personal entertainment experience” is a unique combined quality of audio, video, live stream TV, HD movies, HD video clips or home-made movies, music (download and live music), social media and social networking, and virtual music instruments are among new high-quality features available in Smartphone and Smart handheld devices. People have reduced their times sitting in front of TVs, audio and video systems by adopting their personal entertainment lifestyles into touch-functioning-and-tiny-screen tools. Blue-tooth, Wi-Fi, 3G/4G and docking-adapter (USB, fire-wire cable, and others) can connect one device into any compatible system like A/V systems in a car, bedroom, living room, kitchen and office.

Economic Behaviors in Microeconomic Management

U.S. Economy is performing through sales revenues, profit margins and workforce size. Sales revenues are a positive sign of confidence and satisfaction based on prices of all sold goods and services. Each sales transaction is accumulated into the total of sales revenues which include cost of goods sold, business operations and other credit and debit items in a financial statement. Profit margin (Net Profit Margin) is a value of Net Income divided by Revenue timed 100. Net Income is a value of Revenue subtracted to Cost of Goods sold. If Revenue is bigger than Cost of Goods Sold, Net Income will be relatively a big value. A workforce size is a total of hired employees temporarily and full-time. A company can use economic metric or sales revenue per employee to evaluate how effectively salaries and rewards are impacted on each employee’s performance. A retailer can measure annual sales revenues based on hired employees at a specific store to determine business management plans. Among 50 states and cities in each state, the headquarters of a retailer can decide different sales programs and HR management strategies to achieve sales revenues, profit margin with a specific workforce size.