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Acknowledgments

Many individuals helped us create this text. Faculty feedback was solicited via reviews and
through individual interviews. We are grateful to the following faculty for their contributions.

• Deborrah C. Turban (University of Santo Tomas, Philippines) contributed material to sev-
eral chapters via her Internet search efforts and editing.
• Judy Strauss, University of Nevada at Reno, who contributed some of the material to the
social media topics.
• Linda Lai of the Macau Polytechnic University of China contributed some material used in
Chapter 3.
• Ivan C. Seballos II contributed the creation of new exhibits in the text.

For all the above contributors, we thanks for the valuable assistance.
We also recognize the various organizations and corporations that provided us with permis-
sions to reproduce material. Special thanks go to all companies and consultants for allowing us
to use their material in this book.
Thanks also to the Springer’s team that helped us from the inception of the project to its
completion under the leadership of Editor Neil Levine.

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