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Nokia



Nokia Corporation is a Finnish multinational communications corporation that is headquartered in Keilaniemi, Espoo, a city neighbouring Finland's capital Helsinki. Nokia is engaged in the manufacturing of mobile devices and in converging Internet and communications industries, with over 123,000 employees in 120 countries, sales in more than 150 countries and global annual revenue of EUR 41 billion and operating profit of €1.2 billion as of 2009. It is the world's largest manufacturer of mobile telephones: its global device market share was about 39% in Q4 2009, up from 37% in Q4 2008 and 38% in Q3 2009, and its converged device market share was about 40% in Q4, up from 35% in Q3 2009. Nokia produces mobile devices for every major market segment and protocol, including GSM, CDMA, and W-CDMA (UMTS). Nokia offers Internet services such as applications, games, music, maps, media and messaging through its Ovi platform. Nokia's subsidiary Nokia Siemens Networks produces telecommunications network equipment, solutions and services.Nokia is also engaged in providing free digital map information and navigation services through its wholly-owned subsidiary Navteq.

Nokia has sites for research and development, manufacture and sales in many countries throughout the world. As of December 2009, Nokia had R&D presence in 16 countries and employed 37,020 people in research and development, representing approximately 30% of the group's total workforce.The Nokia Research Center, founded in 1986, is Nokia's industrial research unit consisting of about 500 researchers, engineers and scientists. It has sites in seven countries: Finland, China, India, Kenya, Switzerland, the United Kingdom and the United States. Besides its research centers, in 2001 Nokia founded (and owns) INdT – Nokia Institute of Technology, a R&D institute located in Brazil. Nokia operates a total of 15 manufacturing facilities located at Espoo, Oulu and Salo, Finland; Manaus, Brazil; Beijing, Dongguan and Suzhou, China; Farnborough, England; Komárom, Hungary; Chennai, India; Reynosa, Mexico; Jucu, Romania and Masan, South Korea.[10][11] Nokia's Design Department remains in Salo, Finland.


Nokia is a public limited liability company listed on the Helsinki, Frankfurt, and New York stock exchanges. Nokia plays a very large role in the economy of Finland; it is by far the largest Finnish company, accounting for about a third of the market capitalization of the Helsinki Stock Exchange (OMX Helsinki) as of 2007, a unique situation for an industrialized country. It is an important employer in Finland and several small companies have grown into large ones as its partners and subcontractors. Nokia increased Finland's GDP by more than 1.5% in 1999 alone. In 2004 Nokia's share of the Finnish GDP was 3.5% and accounted for almost a quarter of Finland's exports in 2003.

In recent years, Finns have consistently ranked Nokia as one of the best Finnish brands. In 2008, it was the 27th most respected brand among Finns, down from sixth place in 2007.The Nokia brand, valued at $34.9 billion, is listed as the fifth most valuable global brand in the Interbrand/BusinessWeek Best Global Brands list of 2009 (first non-US company).It is the number one brand in Asia (as of 2007) and Europe (as of 2008), the 42nd most admirable company worldwide in Fortune's World's Most Admired Companies list of 2009 (third in Network Communications, seventh non-US company), and the world's 85th largest company as measured by revenue in Fortune Global 500 list of 2009, up from 88th the previous year.As of 2009, AMR Research ranks Nokia's global supply chain number six in the world.

What's Ipad


The iPad is a tablet computer developed by Apple Inc. It is scheduled to be released in March 2010 (WiFi-only models) and April 2010 (WiFi + 3G models). It will feature multi-touch interaction with print, video, photo, and audio multimedia, internet browsing, and will run apps designed specifically for the iPad as well as most iPhone OS apps.The device will have an LED-backlit 9.7-inch (25 cm) color IPS LCD display and use a virtual keyboard for text input.

Apple's development of a tablet computer began with the Newton MessagePad 100, which was introduced in 1993. The effort led to the creation of the ARM6 processor core with Acorn Computers. Apple also developed a prototype PowerBook Duo-based tablet computer named the PenLite, then canceled the project as it was too similar to the Newton line. Apple brought out several more Newton-based PDAs, and discontinued the last of the line, the MessagePad 2100, in 1998.
The iPad featuring the home screen

Apple renewed efforts to develop a tablet as early as 2000. Apple CEO Steve Jobs canceled the project twice, once due to insufficient battery life, and again due to inadequate memory.[citation needed] After returning from medical leave, Jobs devoted most of his attention at Apple to completing the device, striking deals with print media companies before the product's announcement.

The product was announced on January 27, 2010, at an Apple press conference at the Yerba Buena Center for the Arts in San Francisco. The device's imminent release had been rumored for several months with iSlate and iTablet among speculated names

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History of Coach



Coach was founded in 1941, in a loft in Manhattan, New York.When it originated, Coach was called Manhattan Leather Bags. Manhattan Leather Bags began as a family-owned business, with six leatherworkers who made small leather goods, such as wallets and handbags. In 1946, Miles Cahn and his wife Lillian joined the company. Miles and Lillian Cahn were owners of a leather handbag manufacturing business, and knew much about leatherworks and business. By 1950, Cahn had taken over the business and was running it mainly himself. The workers continued to manufacture small leather goods, like wallets, for small profits into the 1960s. In the 1960s, Cahn did further research on leather and discovered a method for processing leather to make it strong, soft, and durable. And at the suggestion of his wife, a number of womens' handbags were designed to be more affordable. And the purses got the brand name Coach in the 1960s. Coach women's handbags were made out of sturdy cowhide, which was much better quality than the thin leather pasted over cradboard material that was used to make other handbags at the time. This catapulted Coach to its' role in high-quality, luxury, durable leather products.

Then, in the 1960s, the style of Coach was revolutionized when Cahn hired Bonnie Cashin to work for Coach.Although Bonnie Cashin was already a well-known fashion designer when she started her work for Coach, this deal proved to be one of her most well-known business alliances. She did not start to work for the company right away, as she had other prior business engagements. However, Cashin worked with Coach from 1962 until 1974, and she is said to have redesigned their products. She created new ideas, such as side pockets and coin purses, and gave the bags brighter colors as opposed to the usual hues of browns and tans. Cashin designed matching shoes, pens, key fobs and eyewear and added hardware to her clothes and accessories alike, particularly the silver toggle that became the Coach hallmark, declaring that she had been inspired by a memory of quickly fastening the top on her convertible sports car. Due to the success that Cashin brought Coach, they ran their first ad in the New Yorker in 1963.

Throughout the 1970s and 1980s, business went very well for Coach. The products were in very high demand, and under a new vice president for special products, Coach had started a mail-order business. They had also owned specialty stores, and began to sell Coach bags outside of department stores. The sales of Coach increased, and soon the demand was greater than the supply. Eventually, it got to the point where sales would have to be restricted to only certain vendors. In 1979, Lew Frankfort, Coach's current CEO, joined the company as vice-president of business development. In 1983, the Cahns purchased a 300-acre dairy farm in upstate New York that they operated under the name 'Coach Farms.' It was supposed to be a vacation spot away from the New York Coach office, but instead they communted 2 hours every week from New York City to their upstate farm. So, in summer of 1986, the Cahns decided to sell Coach. In July 1985, Coach was sold to Sara Lee Corporation for $30 million dollars. Sara Lee took over the factory, the 6 boutiques, and its main store on Madison Avenue, New York. Shortly after, new boutiques were opened in Macy's stores in New York and San Francisco. Additional Coach stores were under construction in Denver and Seattle, and similar boutiques were to be opened in other major department stores later in the year. Coach also opened its own stores in malls in New York, New Jersey, Texas, and California. By November, the company was operating 12 stores, along with nearly 50 boutiques within larger department stores.

Lew Frankfort took the position of president of the firm. Frankfort transformed Coach from the relatively small company that it was in 1985 into the world-wide known brand that it is today. He is also known for making Coach bags affordable luxury handbags for women, and the concept of affordable luxury was a big deal for the fashion industry. Up until the 1990s, womens handbags were either very expensive, or very inexpensive department store knock-offs. Coach was the middle ground between the two, therefore filling a gap in the market. Today, Coach operates 25 stores in the United States that carry full Coach collections, including women's footwear, men's briefcases and the new jewelry line. Six are located in New York City and two in Hawaii. Other locations are in East Hampton, NY, Philadelphia, Nashville, Atlanta, Houston, Boston, Los Angeles, San Francisco, Scottsdale, Seattle, Washington D.C., and Westchester County, New York.