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10 Presentation Techniques You Can (And Should) Copy From Apple's WWDC Keynote. 10 ways to download historical stock quotes data for free. Here is a list of websites that provide end of day historical data for US and international stock markets.

10 ways to download historical stock quotes data for free

All the quotes data provided by the websites listed here can be exported to CSV or Excel format. FinancialContent Several websites use historical data provided by financial content. chron.com is one of them and here is the URL to get the eod data. &Range=3&Ticker=[Symbol name] Just change 'Symbol name' with the ticker symbol of the company that interests you.

Yahoo Yahoo has historical quotes and dividend data for US and many international stock markets. This is the URL that let you download these quotes. You can automatically download quotes from yahoo using the following downloader Yahoo EOD historical quotes . Google Google let you download daily and weekly eod quotes for US, Canada, UK, China and Hong Kong stock markets. Scribd. The Eight Pillars of Innovation. The greatest innovations are the ones we take for granted, like light bulbs, refrigeration and penicillin.

The Eight Pillars of Innovation

But in a world where the miraculous very quickly becomes common-place, how can a company, especially one as big as Google, maintain a spirit of innovation year after year? Nurturing a culture that allows for innovation is the key. As we’ve grown to over 26,000 employees in more than 60 offices, we’ve worked hard to maintain the unique spirit that characterized Google way back when I joined as employee #16.

At that time I was Head of Marketing (a group of one), and over the past decade I’ve been lucky enough to work on a wide range of products. We’re all marketers now - McKinsey Quarterly - Marketing & Sales - Strategy. For the past decade, marketers have been adjusting to a new era of deep customer engagement.

We’re all marketers now - McKinsey Quarterly - Marketing & Sales - Strategy

They’ve tacked on new functions, such as social-media management; altered processes to better integrate advertising campaigns online, on television, and in print; and added staff with Web expertise to manage the explosion of digital customer data. Yet in our experience, that’s not enough. To truly engage customers for whom “push” advertising is increasingly irrelevant, companies must do more outside the confines of the traditional marketing organization.

At the end of the day, customers no longer separate marketing from the product—it is the product. Have you tested your strategy lately? - McKinsey Quarterly - Strategy - Strategic Thinking. “What’s the next new thing in strategy?”

Have you tested your strategy lately? - McKinsey Quarterly - Strategy - Strategic Thinking

A senior executive recently asked Phil Rosenzweig, a professor at IMD, in Switzerland. His response was surprising for someone whose career is devoted to advancing the state of the art of strategy: “With all respect, I think that’s the wrong question. Computer Science 101. UPDATE: we're doing a live, updated MOOC of this course at stanford-online July-2014 (not this Coursera version).

Computer Science 101

See here: CS101 teaches the essential ideas of Computer Science for a zero-prior-experience audience. Computers can appear very complicated, but in reality, computers work within just a few, simple patterns. CS101 demystifies and brings those patterns to life, which is useful for anyone using computers today. Universities with the Best Free Online Courses. Free online courses are offered by real schools.

Universities with the Best Free Online Courses

Learn which courses are available, what topics they cover and which ones lead to real college credit. Online Courses for Credit All of the schools listed below are well-known universities with a variety of free online course offerings. These classes are typically offered as part of an OpenCourseWare (OCW) project. Materials can be accessed at any time and the coursework is self-directed, though no academic credit is awarded for course completion. Students who would like access to flexible online learning that can be used to earn college credit might want to consider Education Portal's courses on such areas as business, math, science, foreign languages, the social sciences and humanities. Business 103: Introductory Business Law - Survey the history of American law and the legal system before exploring the ins and outs of contract law, property law, labor law, sales and torts.

Free Online Non-Credited Courses Carnegie Mellon University. Free Online Course Materials. Statistics. LearningSpace - The Open University. The Anatomy of a Search Engine. Sergey Brin and Lawrence Page {sergey, page}@cs.stanford.edu Computer Science Department, Stanford University, Stanford, CA 94305 Abstract In this paper, we present Google, a prototype of a large-scale search engine which makes heavy use of the structure present in hypertext.

The Anatomy of a Search Engine

Google is designed to crawl and index the Web efficiently and produce much more satisfying search results than existing systems. 1. (Note: There are two versions of this paper -- a longer full version and a shorter printed version. 1.1 Web Search Engines -- Scaling Up: 1994 - 2000 Search engine technology has had to scale dramatically to keep up with the growth of the web. 1.2.

Creating a search engine which scales even to today's web presents many challenges. MIT Media Lab: Reality Mining.