Above: Why Is Gold The Perfect Element For Currency?
Is gold money? If there were to be one element to use as a currency gold would be that element. Gold is malleable, rare but not too rare like platinum, not dangerous to humans, and pretty. But why do we value gold, and is gold truly the perfect currency in an age of funny looking paper money? Continue reading
Domestic Total: $121,661,683
Foreign: $92,372,541
Distributor: Universal
Release Date: June 14, 2002
Genre: Action
Runtime: 1 hr. 58 min.
MPAA Rating: PG-13
Production Budget: $60 million
The Bourne Identity is a 2002 American German film adaptation of Robert Ludlum’s novel. It stars Matt Damon as Jason Bourne, a man suffering from extreme memory loss and attempting to discover his true identity amidst a clandestine conspiracy within the Central Intelligence Agency (CIA). The film also features Franka Potente, Chris Cooper, Clive Owen, Julia Stiles, Brian Cox, and Adewale Akinnuoye-Agbaje. The Bourne Identity (2002 film), the first in the Bourne film series, is followed by The Bourne Supremacy (2004), The Bourne Ultimatum (2007), The Bourne Legacy (2012), and Jason Bourne (2016).
The film was directed by Doug Liman and adapted for the screen by Tony Gilroy and William Blake Herron. Although Robert Ludlum died in 2001, he is credited as the film’s producer alongside Frank Marshall. Universal Pictures released the film to theaters in the United States on June 14, 2002 and it received a positive critical and public reaction.
Above: How BIG is Samsung?
So how big is Samsung? The answer may surprise you.
About Samsung
Samsung is a South Korean multinational conglomerate headquartered in South Korea. Samsung comprises numerous subsidiaries and affiliated businesses, most of them united under the Samsung brand, and is the largest South Korean chaebol (business conglomerate).
Samsung was founded by Lee Byung-chul in 1938 as a trading company. Over the next three decades, the group diversified into areas including food processing, textiles, insurance, securities, and retail. Samsung entered the electronics industry in the late 1960’s and the construction and ship building industries in the mid-1970’s; these areas would drive its subsequent growth. Following the death of Samsung founder Lee Byung-chul in 1987, Samsung has increasingly globalized its activities and dominance in electronics, particularly mobile phones and semiconductors, which have become its most important source of income.
Notable Samsung industrial subsidiaries include Samsung Electronics (one of the world’s largest information technology companies measured by revenues and market value), Samsung Heavy Industries (one of the world’s largest ship builders measured by revenues), and Samsung Engineering and Samsung C&T (two of the world’s largest construction companies). Other notable Samsung subsidiaries include Samsung Life Insurance (one of the world’s largest life insurance companies), Samsung Everland (operator of Everland Resort, the oldest theme park in South Korea), and Cheil Worldwide (one of the world’s largest advertising agencies measured by revenues).
Samsung has a powerful influence on South Korea’s economic development, politics, media, and culture and has been a major driving force behind the “Miracle on the Han River”. Samsung affiliate companies produce around a fifth of South Korea’s total exports, and Samsung’s revenue was equal to 17% of South Korea’s $1,000+ billion GDP.
Above: The Top 10 Sylvester Stallone Movie Performances – The Top 10 Sylvester Stallone Movies Of All Time. For this “Top 10 Sylvester Stallone Movies” list, we are taking a look at those performances that show off actor Sylvester Stallone at his finest and/or most memorable movie performances.
Sylvester Gardenzio Stallone (born on July 6, 1946) is an American actor, screenwriter, producer, and director. He is well known for his Hollywood action roles, particularly boxer Rocky Balboa, the title character of the Rocky movies of which there are seven films (1976-2015). Sylvester Stallone is also best known for portraying soldier John Rambo in the four Rambo films, which ran from 1982 to 2008. Sylvester Stallone is also known for portraying Barney Ross in the three The Expendables films (2010-2014). Sylvester Stallone wrote or co-wrote most of the 14 films in all three franchises, and directed many of the films.
In 1977 Sylvester Stallone was nominated for two Academy Awards for the movie Rocky (Best Original Screenplay and Best Actor). Sylvester Stallone received critical acclaim, as well as his first Golden Globe Award and third Academy Award nomination, for reprising his role of Rocky Balboa in Ryan Coogler’s 2015 film Creed.
Above: Cheers is an American sitcom that ran for eleven seasons between 1982 and 1993. The show is set in a bar named Cheers (named after the popular toast) in Boston, Massachusetts, where a group of locals meet to drink, relax, and socialize.
The show’s main theme song, written and performed by Gary Portnoy, and co-written with Judy Hart Angelo, lent its famous refrain “Where Everybody Knows Your Name” as the show’s tagline. Cheers is a half hour comedy series that won 28 Emmy Awards centering on the colorful characters who frequent a Boston bar owned by a former Red Sox pitcher.
Above: Medtronic | History Of The World’s Largest Medical Technology Company.
If you are searching for a medical device company that offers regular dividend increases and stable cash flow, consider medical device king Medtronic (NYSE: MDT). Medtronic has increased its dividend for 39 years in a row, averaging annual increases of 12 percent over the past five years. Medtronic is a medical device company headquartered in Dublin, Ireland. Their operational headquarters is in Fridley, Minnesota in the United States.
Medtronic is the world’s largest medical technology company, operates in more than 140 countries, employs over 85,000 people, and has more than 53,000 patents worldwide. Medtronic has a giant global footprint in the medical device industry, with its product portfolio ranging from pacemakers to insulin pumps and pretty much everything in between. Its stake in nearly every medical device market gives it economies of scale and pricing power. Although Medtronic’s top line hasn’t quite performed as expected in recent quarters, new product launches should help boost revenue over the long term. Continue reading
Above: How BIG is Google? | Please Enjoy And Don’t Be Evil.
Hundreds of millions of people use Google services each day but very few of us ask the question, “How BIG is Google?” Obviously this question cannot be answered directly. However, the sheer size of Google can be realized by looking at the hard facts and figures about Google, one of the largest technology companies in the world.
Google is an American multinational technology company specializing in Internet related services and products. These include online advertising technologies, search, cloud computing, and software. Most of its profits are derived from AdWords, an online advertising service that places advertising near the list of search results.
Google was founded by Larry Page and Sergey Brin while they were Ph.D. students at Stanford University. Founders Larry Page and Sergey Brin incorporated Google as a privately held company on September 4, 1998. An initial public offering followed on August 19, 2004. Google’s mission statement from the outset was “to organize the world’s information and make it universally accessible and useful,” and its unofficial slogan was “Don’t be evil”. In 2004, Google moved to its new headquarters in Mountain View, California, known as the Googleplex.
In August 2015, Google announced plans to reorganize its interests as a holding company called Alphabet Inc. When this restructuring took place on October 2, 2015, Google became Alphabet’s leading subsidiary, as well as the parent for Google’s Internet interests.
