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Business

A business (also called a firm or an enterprise) is a legally recognized organization designed to provide goods and/or services to consumers.^[1] Businesses are predominant in capitalist economies, most being privately owned and formed to earn profit that will increase the wealth of its owners. The owners and operators of a business have as one of their main objectives the receipt or generation of a financial return in exchange for work and acceptance of risk. Notable exceptions include cooperative businesses and state-owned enterprises. Socialist systems involve either government agencies, public, or worker ownership of most sizable businesses.

The etymology of "business" relates to the state of being busy either as an individual or society as a whole, doing commercially viable and profitable work. The term "business" has at least three usages, depending on the scope — the singular usage (above) to mean a particular company or corporation, the generalized usage to refer to a particular market sector, such as "the music business" and compound forms such as agribusiness, or the broadest meaning to include all activity by the community of suppliers of goods and services. However, the exact definition of business, like much else in the philosophy of business, is a matter of debate.

Business Studies, the study of the management of individuals to maintain collective productivity in order to accomplish particular creative and productive goals (usually to generate profit), is taught as an academic subject in many schools.

Basic forms of ownership

Although forms of business ownership vary by jurisdiction, there are several common forms:

• Sole proprietorship: A sole proprietorship is a business owned by one person. The owner may operate on his or her own or may employ others. The owner of the business has total and unlimited personal liability of the debts incurred by the business.
• Partnership: A partnership is a form of business in which two or more people operate for the common goal of making profit. Each partner has total and unlimited personal liability of the debts incurred by the partnership. There are three typical classifications of partnerships: general partnerships, limited partnerships, and limited liability partnerships.
• Corporation: A business corporation is a for-profit, limited liability entity that has a separate legal personality from its members. A corporation is owned by multiple shareholders and is overseen by a board of directors, which hires the business's managerial staff.
• Cooperative: Often referred to as a "co-op business" or "co-op", a cooperative is a for-profit, limited liability entity that differs from a corporation in that it has members, as opposed to shareholders, who share decision-making authority. Cooperatives are typically classified as either consumer cooperatives or worker cooperatives. Cooperatives are fundamental to the ideology of economic democracy.

For a country-by-country listing of legally recognized business forms, see Types of business entity.

Organizing

The major factors affecting how a business is organized are usually:

• The size and scope of the business, and its anticipated management and ownership. Generally a smaller business is more flexible, while larger businesses, or those with wider ownership or more formal structures, will usually tend to be organized as partnerships or (more commonly) corporations. In addition a business which wishes to raise money on a stock market or to be owned by a wide range of people will often be required to adopt a specific legal form to do so.
• The sector and country. Private profit making businesses are different from government owned bodies. In some countries, certain businesses are legally obliged to be organized certain ways.
• Limited liability. Corporations, limited liability partnerships, and other specific types of business organizations protect their owners from business failure by doing business under a separate legal entity with certain legal protections. In contrast, unincorporated businesses or persons working on their own are usually not so protected.
• Tax advantages. Different structures are treated differently in tax law, and may have advantages for this reason.
• Disclosure and compliance requirements. Different business structures may be required to make more or less information public (or reported to relevant authorities), and may be bound to comply with different rules and regulations.

Many businesses are operated through a separate entity such as a corporation, limited partnership or limited liability company. Most legal jurisdictions allow people to organize such an entity by filing certain charter documents with the relevant Secretary of State or equivalent and complying with certain other ongoing obligations. The relationships and legal rights of shareholders, limited partners, or members are governed partly by the charter documents and partly by the law of the jurisdiction where the entity is organized. Generally speaking, shareholders in a corporation, limited partners in a limited partnership, and members in a limited liability company are shielded from personal liability for the debts and obligations of the entity, which is legally treated as a separate "person." This means that unless there is misconduct, the owner's own possessions are strongly protected in law, if the business does not succeed.

Where two or more individuals own a business together but have failed to organize a more specialized form of vehicle, they will be treated as a general partnership. The terms of a partnership are partly governed by a partnership agreement if one is created, and partly by the law of the jurisdiction where the partnership is located. No paperwork or filing is necessary to create a partnership, and without an agreement, the relationships and legal rights of the partners will be entirely governed by the law of the jurisdiction where the partnership is located.

A single person who owns and runs a business is commonly known as a sole proprietor, whether he or she owns it directly or through a formally organized entity.

A few relevant factors to consider in deciding how to operate a business include:

1. General partners in a partnership (other than a limited liability partnership), plus anyone who personally owns and operates a business without creating a separate legal entity, are personally liable for the debts and obligations of the business.
2. Generally, corporations are required to pay tax just like "real" people. In some tax systems, this can give rise to so-called double taxation, because first the corporation pays tax on the profit, and then when the corporation distributes its profits to its owners, individuals have to include dividends in their income when they complete their personal tax returns, at which point a second layer of income tax is imposed.
3. In most countries, there are laws which treat small corporations differently than large ones. They may be exempt from certain legal filing requirements or labor laws, have simplified procedures in specialized areas, and have simplified, advantageous, or slightly different tax treatment.
4. In order to "go public" (sometimes called IPO) -- which basically means to allow a part of the business to be owned by a wider range of investors or the public in general -- you must organize a separate entity, which is usually required to comply with a tighter set of laws and procedures. Most public entities are corporations that have sold shares, but increasingly there are also public LLCs that sell units (sometimes also called shares), and other more exotic entities as well (for example, REITs in the USA, Unit Trusts in the UK). However, you cannot take a general partnership "public."

Commercial law

Most commercial transactions are governed by a very detailed and well-established body of rules that have evolved over a very long period of time, it being the case that governing trade and commerce was a strong driving force in the creation of law and courts in Western civilization.

As for other laws that regulate or impact businesses, in many countries it is all but impossible to chronicle them all in a single reference source. There are laws governing treatment of labor and generally relations with employees, safety and protection issues (OSHA or Health and Safety), anti-discrimination laws (age, gender, disabilities, race, and in some jurisdictions, sexual orientation), minimum wage laws, union laws, workers compensation laws, and annual vacation or working hours time.

In some specialized businesses, there may also be licenses required, either due to special laws that govern entry into certain trades, occupations or professions, which may require special education, or by local governments. Professions that require special licenses range from law and medicine to flying airplanes to selling liquor to radio broadcasting to selling investment securities to selling used cars to roofing. Local jurisdictions may also require special licenses and taxes just to operate a business without regard to the type of business involved.

Some businesses are subject to ongoing special regulation. These industries include, for example, public utilities, investment securities, banking, insurance, broadcasting, aviation, and health care providers. Environmental regulations are also very complex and can impact many kinds of businesses in unexpected ways.

Capital

When businesses need to raise money (called 'capital'), more laws come into play. A highly complex set of laws and regulations govern the offer and sale of investment securities (the means of raising money) in most Western countries. These regulations can require disclosure of a lot of specific financial and other information about the business and give buyers certain remedies. Because "securities" is a very broad term, most investment transactions will be potentially subject to these laws, unless a special exemption is available.

Capital may be raised through private means, by public offer (IPO) on a stock exchange, or in many other ways. Major stock exchanges include the New York Stock Exchange and Nasdaq (USA), the London Stock Exchange (UK), the Tokyo Stock Exchange (Japan), and so on. Most countries with capital markets have at least one.

Business that have gone "public" are subject to extremely detailed and complicated regulation about their internal governance (such as how executive officers' compensation is determined) and when and how information is disclosed to the public and their shareholders. In the United States, these regulations are primarily implemented and enforced by the United States Securities and Exchange Commission (SEC). Other Western nations have comparable regulatory bodies.

As noted at the beginning, it is impossible to enumerate all of the types of laws and regulations that impact on business today. In fact, these laws have become so numerous and complex, that no business lawyer can learn them all, forcing increasing specialization among corporate attorneys. It is not unheard of for teams of 5 to 10 attorneys to be required to handle certain kinds of corporate transactions, due to the sprawling nature of modern regulation. Commercial law spans general corporate law, employment and labor law, healthcare law, securities law, M&A law (who specialize in acquisitions), tax law, ERISA law (ERISA in the United States governs employee benefit plans), food and drug regulatory law, intellectual property law (specializing in copyrights, patents, trademarks and such), telecommunications law, and more.

In Thailand, for example, it is necessary to register a particular amount of capital for each employee, and pay a fee to the government for the amount of capital registered. There is no legal requirement to prove that this capital actually exists, the only requirement is to pay the fee. Overall, processes like this are detrimental to the development and GDP of a country, but often exist in "feudal" developing countries.

Intellectual property

Businesses often have important "intellectual property" that needs protection from competitors in order for the company to stay profitable. This could require patents or copyrights or preservation of trade secrets. Most businesses have names, logos and similar branding techniques that could benefit from trademarking. Patents and copyrights in the United States are largely governed by federal law, while trade secrets and trademarking are mostly a matter of state law. Because of the nature of intellectual property, a business needs protection in every jurisdiction in which they are concerned about competitors. Many countries are signatories to international treaties concerning intellectual property, and thus companies registered in these countries are subject to national laws bound by these treaties.

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iPhone apps: Fool's gold for developers?

Peter Tenereillo made a good deal of money, and achieved some prominence, as the developer of the Cisco Pix firewall and load balancing servers. Like many successful techies, Tenereillo indulged himself a bit, buying a rare Ferrari 599 (base price $302,000), then plowing his earnings into a new company.

The Ferrari is gone now, along with a lot of his cash. But Tenereillo, founder and president of Trapster, isn't singing the blues and hasn't given up. He's doubling down, he's hammering new code, and he has a basketful of new apps in the works. Along the way, he's learned a lot about what it takes to succeed in the world of mobile apps and says he wants to share those lessons with other struggling developers. Here's some of what he's learned.

[ InfoWorld selects the best business apps for the iPhone. | Find out what the 10 best free BlackBerry business apps are. ]

* You need a critical mass of users -- but you can't get there if the iPhone is your only platform.
* Location-specific apps have to be very location-specific, or you risk the wrath of users.
* Market your butt off.
* You're going to make enemies.

Lots of iPhone users, but no revenues
I first met Tenereillo briefly last fall as he hung out on the fringes of the Demo Fall 2008 conference in San Diego.

Not well-connected enough to be one of the 72 companies pitching to a select audience of investors, he networked and made his own informal presentations. How did he garner attention? Tenereillo slipped a valet parker $60 to leave his flashy car, emblazoned with Trapster stickers, in the conference hotel driveway. People noticed.

The app he showed off is called Trapster. Simply put, it's a GPS-powered alert service that tips off drivers when they are approaching a known speed trap. No, it's not a radar detector. It relies on a community of users to spot the traps, then tap on a map displayed on the screen when the app is running. The service, in turn, stores the information, then sends out an alert when a user is approaching the hidden traffic cops. If multiple users confirm the location of a particular speed trap, the icon shows up as red. Less credible locations are colored green.

I have to admit that I'd rather see people drive responsibly than fake out the police, but hey, that's just me. The app is pretty cool, and it has a user base of about 350,000, according to Tenereillo. That may sound like a lot of people, but it isn't. "You don't make money [with ads] when you have a base of 350,000," he says. And since he's not charging anything for the app, the revenue stream at the moment is zero.

A key part of Tenereillo's strategy is to run on a variety of platforms; Trapster supports 10, including Symbian, Windows Mobile, and BlackBerry. After all, the installed base of the iPhone is measured in just the tens of millions, a fraction of mobile users worldwide. Competing products such as NMobile that run only on the iPhone have had even less success.

Indeed, competitive pressures forced Njection Mobile to cut prices on Apple's App Store from $9.99 to 99 cents, says founder Shannon Atkinson. Like his rival, Atkinson founded Njection Mobile with his own money. "Right now, it's flying out the window," he says ruefully.

Limitations in the iPhone make great apps harder to deliver
What's important to understand is that the iPhone application environment is very difficult, so it's no surprise that people like Atkinson and Tenereillo are getting tense and pretty touchy.

In a perfect world, Trapster and its family of related apps would be "on deck" -- industry speak for being featured on handsets served by mobile carriers like Verizon and AT&T. But Trapster isn't on deck, and because its user base is still small and its content a bit "edgy," Tenereillo figures he'll likely stay off deck.

That's why he's marketing so hard (he's managed to get major media attention, including spots on CNN) and developing apps using the same core technology. One is called AwareSpot. Unlike Trapster, which relies on the so-called wisdom of the crowd, it alerts drivers to major traffic problems using information from police and other trusted sources.

In its original incarnation during an early run in Rhode Island, the company made a major development mistake: Users were spammed by text alerts, because the service assumed that all drivers wanted alerts from all over the state. "I got many, many furious calls the next day and alienated thousands of users," says Tenereillo.

Users of the service can now customize it by plotting out routes and specifying times they'll be driving. But that brings up a problem with the iPhone as an application platform: Unlike some mobile devices, the iPhone runs only one application at a time, so if users don't have AwareSpot running on the way to work, they won't get the alert.

Tenereillo came up with a work-around that involves sending a text message to the iPhone, but it's obvious that developers would have an easier time if their mobile apps could just run in the background.

Don't mistake this post for a knock on Apple or its platform. Instead, see it as a cautionary tale and adjust your expectations and strategy accordingly.


Info World

Studio 3D Max

Software for the making of animation three dimension. Since first time dirilis, 3D Studio Max become the leader of application of animation development three dimension. Since version to four, Discreet, producer 3D Studio Max, out for broaden the its function area so that applicable to make the animation for Web or film. its Newest version, that is version 5, have instructed to the function extension. This matter is shown with the existence of development at polymodelling, mapping and some some reviseing at tool for the animation of. But from existing fitur-fitur, most withdrawing from fitur 3D Studio of Max version 5 is reactor. This Reactor is integrated by interface from 3D Studio Max and provide the tool to make the simulation. this 3D Studio Max is often used to make the models of house or furniture. Others, there are also many used in digital art and making game


Software untuk pembuatan animasi tiga dimensi. Sejak pertama kali dirilis, 3D Studio Max menjadi pemimpin aplikasi pembangunan animasi tiga dimensi. Sejak versi ke empat, Discreet, produsen 3D Studio Max, berusaha untuk meluaskan area fungsinya sehingga dapat digunakan untuk membuat animasi bagi Web atau film. Versi terbarunya, yaitu versi 5, sudah mengarah kepada perluasan fungsi tersebut. Hal ini ditunjukkan dengan adanya pengembangan pada polymodelling, mapping dan beberapa beberapa revisi pada tool untuk animasi. Namun dari fitur-fitur yang ada, fitur yang paling menarik dari 3D Studio Max versi 5 adalah reactor. Reactor ini terintegrasi dengan interface dari 3D Studio Max dan menyediakan tool untuk membuat simulasi. 3D Studio Max ini sering digunakan untuk membuat model-model rumah atau furniture. Selain itu, banyak pula digunakan di dalam seni digital dan pembuatan game.

WSP/WISP

Internet Access Provider or Internet Service Provider trying to give the service of extension of nirkabel broadband and extension for the station of to make a move to consumer company


Internet Access Provider atau Internet Service Provider yang berusaha memberikan layanan sambungan nirkabel broadband dan sambungan untuk station bergerak kepada perusahaan pengguna

VPN (virtual private network)

A network using public network facility / public but having policy like at network privat / personal. Consumer can enjoy the facility exist in network privat like high storey;level security, quality of service ( Qos), management amenity and mount the high belief. Marginally, VPN divided to become two ( 2) category that is Dial VPN and Dedicated VPN. Dial VPN consisted of [by] the Access VPN, while divisible Dedicated VPN become the Intranet VPN and Extranet VPN. Marginally, VPN will give the advantage [of] like security guarantee for the koneksi of end-to-end, improvement connectivity, reduction of expense and priority arrangement from an application

Suatu jaringan yang menggunakan fasilitas jaringan publik/umum tetapi mempunyai policy seperti pada jaringan privat/pribadi. Pengguna dapat menikmati fasilitas-fasilitas yang ada pada jaringan privat seperti tingkat security yang tinggi, quality of service (QoS), kemudahan manajemen dan tingkat kepercayaan yang tinggi. Secara garis besar, VPN dibagi menjadi dua (2) kategori yaitu Dial VPN dan Dedicated VPN. Dial VPN terdiri dari Access VPN, sedangkan Dedicated VPN terbagi menjadi Intranet VPN dan Extranet VPN. Secara garis besar, VPN akan memberikan keuntungan-keuntungan seperti jaminan keamanan untuk koneksi end-to-end, peningkatan connectivity, pengurangan biaya dan pengaturan prioritas dari suatu aplikasi.

E-commerce (Electronic commerce)

Economic activation that happened in internet, covering purchasing, sale and also transaction of goods and service

Aktivasi ekonomi yang terjadi di internet, meliputi pembelian, penjualan serta transaksi barang dan jasa.

OpenOffice.org

Openoffice.Org is a white colars application packet have code open source which can be obtained free of charge. The packet have owned the word processing packet ( word processor), spread sheet ( spreadsheet), presentation, illustrate the vektor and database. Openoffice.Org addressed by in the place of Microsoft Office and can be run at assorted of platform.

OpenOffice.org adalah sebuah paket aplikasi perkantoran berkode sumber terbuka (open source) yang dapat diperoleh secara gratis. Paket tersebut sudah memiliki paket pengolah kata (word processor), lembar kerja (spreadsheet), presentasi, ilustrasi vektor dan database. OpenOffice.org ditujukan sebagai pengganti Microsoft Office dan dapat dijalankan pada berbagai macam platform.