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Innovations that impacted business
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Copy Machine
The photocopier is a machine that can make paper copies of a document and other visual images quickly and cheaply. Most current photocopiers use a technology called xerography, a dry process using heat. Photocopying is widely used in business, education, and government. -
Automated Teller Machine
An automated teller machine, also known as an automated banking machine , cash machine, cashpoint, cashline or hole in the wall, is an electronic telecommunications device that enables the clients of a financial institution to perform financial transactions without the need for a cashier, human clerk or bank teller. This makes it easier for anyone to quickly draw money from their account and continue with their business. -
Cell Phone
A mobile phone is a device that can make and receive telephone calls over a radio link while moving around a wide geographic area. It does so by connecting to a cellular network provided by a mobile phone operator, allowing access to the public telephone network. Although a cordless telephone is used only within the short range of a single, private base station it greatly helped the business environment because it make communication a bit easier. -
Compact Disc
Compact disc, or CD for short, is a digital optical disc data storage format. The format was originally developed to store and play back sound recordings only, but was later adapted for storage of data. the CD impacted busniess because you could store important data that was portable through one of these compact discs. -
World Wide Web
The World Wide Web is a system of interlinked hypertext documents accessed via the Internet. With a web browser, one can view web pages that may contain text, images, videos, and other multimedia and navigate between them via hyperlinks. This allowed people to store information on the web and have it anywhere. -
Google
Google was founded by Larry Page and Sergey Brin while they were Ph.D. students at Stanford University. Together they own about 16 percent of its shares. They incorporated Google as a privately held company on September 4, 1998. An initial public offering followed on August 19, 2004. Google made it easier to access information that was located on the internet
