Olive Garden is a restaurant brand that is owned and operated by Darden Restaurants, Inc. a SEC registrant with ticker symbol ‘DRI’. Darden reported that same store sales had increased for Olive Garden for 55 consecutive quarters in 2008. In 2009 same store sales declined and the Olive Garden brand has had continuous erosion since then.

Through a series of tasks outlined in the Objectives section below, the goal of this contest is to perform a store…

Global Energy Forecasting Competition 2014 by IEEE - Power Energy Society launches on CrowdANALYTIX platform. Check out the 4 tracks of your choice: Electric Load, Electric Price, Wind Power and Solar Power.

IEEE, the world’s largest professional organization dedicated to advancing technology for humanity, today announced the start of the Global Energy Forecasting Competition 2014 (GEFCom2014)—sponsored by the IEEE Power & Energy Society (PES) and organized by the IEEE Working…

With elevating popularity for smartphones and other mobile devices, there is also increasing demand for mobile accessories like covers etc. A recent study showed that smartphone owners spend roughly $56 on accessories per device, nearly double the amount of feature phone owners. Smartphone case market is one of the latest examples of products that were originally intended to be functional and evolved into fashion statements and spurred an industry to make devices unique and…

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Digital content has gone through significant changes in past couple of decades. From DVDs to internet streaming, from Blu-ray to 4k, HD and from TVs to desktops to mobile, viewing patterns have transformed and so has the economics of the industry.

For example: Netflix’s business model of On-demand streaming is a whopping 4.7 billion USD business with over 10 million subscribers.…

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Each county within a state in the US maintains strict accounting standards with regards to cash inflows and outflows namely revenue and expenses. There are various funds institutionalized to serve this purpose for various categories such as education, energy, environment, health and human services, housing and community development etc. The governmental fund concept means that:

• The fund is an independent fiscal…