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How Amazon Saves a Ton of Money [INFOGRAPHIC] With $48.1 billion in net sales last year, Amazon is certainly the leading Internet retailer. But how does the company fare in other areas, such as employee satisfaction and corporate social responsibility? Not so well, according to an infographic from MBAOnline, a website that curates business information from the top minds in the blogosphere. In fact, Amazon seems to put saving money ahead of many other priorities. For example, on a 102-degree day in June 2011, 15 workers in an Amazon warehouse collapsed from the lack of air conditioning, six of whom needed to be rushed to the emergency room. And despite a $5 billion cash reserve, Amazon donates nothing to charities — if an employee wants to deduct a donation from his or her paycheck, he or she has to pay an additional fee.

SEE ALSO: Do E-Reader Owners Read More Books? But Amazon surely knows how to cut corners. Do you think Amazon's money-saving initiatives go too far, or do you think it shows good business sense? History of Windows Infographic. Sizing up Google vs Baidu in China. 23 February '12, 02:45am Follow We’ve written considerable amounts about Google’s approach to China, which the company says it is still focused on despite the fact that it relocated its search engine to Hong Kong in 2010.

Of all of the challenges that Google faces there, the fierce competition provided by Chinese rival Baidu is one of the biggest. Baiduis simply killing Google in its core market, search. Yet outside of China little is known of the company, which s very much like Google but with key differences. Were you aware, for example, that Baidu has more than 50 communities and services online, including maps, an encyclopedia, a mobile OS and more?

Did you realise that Google briefly held a 2 percent share of the Chinese search giant before it entered China itself? We’re usually skeptical on infographics but these stats, and more, are brought to us in a neat visual comparison from Digimind, which asks: ‘Is the battle already lost for Google?’ How Google Affects Memory and Learning [Infographic] Online colleges put together this nifty infographic that shows us how Google helps us find information on the Internet, so we can keep our minds clear and fresh. But, perhaps we rely too much on Google. The information is insightful because it illustrates how Google helps us keep our daily lives organized and coherent. When only a few years ago, half of what Google offers now wasn’t even available then.

Google is a service that we take for granted — just think where we’d be without it. If I didn’t have Google, I’d own an updated encyclopedia set and several reference books. Research and Design by: Online Colleges Site. Infographie : les 10 sites les plus populaires. Yahoo, Google, YouTube, Facebook ou encore Twitter, le succès de ces sites en fait rêver plus d’un. Il faut dire qu’à eux seuls, ils représentent finalement une grosse part du trafic sur le web. Et justement, si vous souhaitez en apprendre plus sur les 10 sites les plus populaires au monde, alors vous allez pouvoir découvrir dans la suite de l’article une chouette infographie très complète.

Oui et avec en prime, des captures de la toute première version de ces fameux sites… A ne louper sous aucun prétexte ! Internet est un univers surprenant à plus d’un titre et ce ne sont sans doute pas les créateurs de Google, de Facebook ou encore de Twitter qui vont me contredire sur ce sujet. Sans rire, quand tu vois que la plupart des plus grosses firmes du web sont nées d’une simple idée couchée sur une feuille de papier avant de se retrouver sur un écran d’ordinateur, il y a franchement de quoi te faire tourner la tête. Mais ma partie préférée, finalement, c’est la dernière. The Six Biggest Websites On The Internet Compared [Infographic] Startup_Toolkit_Info.png (PNG Image, 1200x6400 pixels) - Scaled (10. Blekko Gets An Infographic. Cloud Computing. Microsoft vs. Apple infographic details rivalry from inception to global domination. In the world of computing, no two companies have more history than Microsoft and Apple. In fact, the companys’ history is 10,124 pixels tall.

From modest beginnings to IPOs, and later to global domination, Microsoft and Apple are largely responsible for computers as we know them today. Microsoft concentrated on software early and now owns the lion’s share of the global PC market, and more recently, Apple looked to mobile computing to revitalize its business and its market cap.

Of course from an investor’s perspective, the stock chart at the bottom says it all, but as is remarkably evident in looking over the meandering paths these two tech titans have taken, no one knows what the future might hold. The full, extremely large infographic can be found after the break.