AOL Gives Up The Ghost
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AOL is reinventing itself as an open portal available to all users, not just subscribers, in an effort to compete as broadband use increases. As many as 20% of AOL's subscribers have left in the last 3 years due to broadband growth, resulting in lost revenues. AOL must change or risk losing more subscribers and face shareholder unrest.
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- The company is compliant with intellectual property laws
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Threats
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-There are increasing cases of political support, especially in Brazil and India
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Economic, Legal, Regulatory Forces and Trends
Economic
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Business Model and Strategic Plan Part II: SWOTT Analysis Paper
Avonda Ellison
BUS/475
October 10, 2016
Ramzy Noel
Google SWOT Analysis
SWOT Analysis Table
Strength
Weaknesses
-Company enjoys high global reach
- The company is compliant with intellectual property laws
-Economic stability and growth in different parts of the world catapults Google’s development
-Political goodwill in many countries such as US and Europe
- Still not strongly established in some parts of the globe that is slow to adopt broadband internet.
-Green Energy laws increase its costs
-Economic recession in some countries affects its performance in such markets
-Political instability in some nations threaten its existence globally
Opportunities
Threats
-Some developing countries across the globe are increasingly adopting internet
- Presence of world intellectual property laws is an opportunity for expansion in most parts of the world that observe such rules.
-America and Europe’s recovery from world economic recession provided opportunity for revenue increase
-There are increasing cases of political support, especially in Brazil and India
-High global presence of its competitors such as Social Media
-Large markets such as China have not fully implemented patent laws.
-Economic instability of certain countries such as Syria and Middle East
-Some nations’ political state are unstable and unpredictable. There are also cases of lack of political goodwill for the firm.
Economic, Legal, Regulatory Forces and Trends
Economic
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2. Google holds the second position from its dominant search engine and growing businesses in mobile operating systems and video.
3. Microsoft ranks third based on the strength of Windows and Office, though it faces threats from losing market share in browsers and search.
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Google reorganized into a holding company called Alphabet in 2015. Alphabet faces various risks from changes in its political, economic, social, technological, legal, and environmental (PESTLE) environment. Politically, it faces antitrust scrutiny and criticism over its control of information flows. Economically, its large cash holdings expose it to currency and market fluctuations. Socially, changing technology usage and distrust of Google pose challenges to maintaining its business model. Technological shifts like increased mobile usage and improved competitors also introduce uncertainties. Legal and regulatory issues arise from its expansion into new industries and ongoing antitrust actions. Environmental regulations around energy usage could increase Alphabet's costs.Section_02_Group_16_Alphabet's Google.pptx
Google/Alphabet pursues a diversification strategy through products like Search, Android, YouTube, and Waymo to mitigate risks to its primary advertising business from factors like market share loss and regulatory pressures. While its portfolio of innovative products and services provides opportunities, Alphabet faces challenges retaining talent and adapting to shifts in user behavior and technology that could threaten its dominance in online advertising.
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AOL Gives Up The Ghost
- 1. AOL Gives Up The Ghost
- 2. The company that dominated dial-up Internet use is coming to grip with the future. As broadband use increases dramatically, AOL has watched subscriptions decline and advertising dollars move to Google, Yahoo, and MSN. Facing approaching irrelevance, AOL has decided to act.
- 4. In an effort to compete, AOL is reinventing itself as an open use portal. To date, AOL has always restricted use of its portal to subscribers. No longer. AOL is beta testing a portal that makes services and content available to everyone. If all goes well, the company will launch the service this month.
- 6. The growth of broadband use has correlated to the decline of AOL. It is estimated that as many as 20 percent of subscribers have left the service in the last three years. This loss, of course, correlates to a loss of revenues. As a publicly traded company, AOL must act or face a shareholder revolt.
- 7. Catch 22?
- 10. What It Means For E-Commerce
- 11. The AOL development has little direct impact on e- commerce. As time passes, however, the new strategy could significantly impact Google. Google currently supplies search results to AOL and places Google Adwords on the system. As subscribers decrease, you can expect AOL to develop solutions to replace Google. Much like Yahoo did, Google will eventually be booted from the AOL platform. The loss of 20 million AOL users must be causing Google some consternation.
- 12. The Internet is a dynamic, evolving platform. The AOL transformation is just another step in the process. Only time will tell if AOL can adapt in the evolutionary process.
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