...Business in the online world Over the past decade the world has solely relied upon technology and its transformation throughout the years allowing for the revolution of social media to completely change how everyone communicates especially for businesses, allowing them to extend out and provide large opportunities for themselves. According to ISACA (2010), through the use of social media, it allows businesses to gain serious advantages through research and evaluation of their competition, their consumers, and the market. This enables them to not only help develop them to be on top of their issues, but using it as a tool for enhancing a better relational experience with employees and customers. For businesses to be successful with their organisations or products, social media is the key to their communication with their stakeholders through privacy and security, where it strongly impacts business to improve, but can be considered also to be a big risk where that barrier can be invaded, which can cause legal and ethical issues. Privacy and security are known to be the most important issues surrounding social media and the innovation of businesses today. Although it may be argued that users voluntarily sign away their privacy by using these social media when creating accounts and putting their personal data online, it is not clear how consent actually works in these situations (Custers et al. 2014). But overall privacy is a serious issue in the online world, businesses including...
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...Online advertising, the scourge of the computer world. Even though internet advertising is highly annoying; Pop ups, pay per clicks and spam mail has flooded the online world, -in a very disturbing way-. To illustrate the problem in question, let’s begin with the pop ups. Every other website uses this type of advertising in a desperate attempt to attract visitors. Pop ups has gained much popularity because of its capacity to attract the eyes. In the instance one of this pop ups “pops” in our screen, it catch our attention and immediately gets a reaction (to at least close the pop up window). In the beginning pop up advertising was kind of “cool”, -like any other novelty-, then soon became a dirty phrase. In terms of the content, pop ups are very unpredictable, they range from: “semiannual sale” to “hot singles are waiting for you”. It is no wonder why today there are many companies that specialize in preventing the unwanted pop ups. Not having enough of these, let’s talk about “pay per clicks” (another way of waste our time). This is a concept where advertisers come up with “keywords” they think will lead internet users to their websites. All it takes is type a specific word in a search engine, to leads us to linked websites that lacks in substance for the intended search. In the mean time somebody is getting paid every time we mistakenly “click” in one of this websites. At last, (but not least), is the “spam mail”; that simply is: advertising in a mail form. In the...
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...| 一、简要流程 | | 1. 凭植入TPO 的托福课程的听课证号、身份证号和真实姓名登陆迅程TPO 网页； | | 2. 系统自动验证成功后即可看到“获得ETS 考试授权号authocode”链接，点击该链接后即可查看到自己的authcode（考试授权号）； | | 3. 拿到authcode 后学生可以在家中任何时间进入ETS 的TPO 页面完成模考； | | 4. 进入ETS 的TPO 页面后的操作流程： | | （1）在主页面右下角‘If your employer or institution provided you with an authorization number, please enter it below’ | |框内输入TPO 授权号（注意：此授权号仅限单次使用，一旦输入进入注册，即视为使用），点击Submit； | | （2）进入注册页面，输入电子邮箱地址。如果之前已注册过TOEFL Practice Online 会员，则输入自己的密码；如果是第一次注册， | |请选取No，I am a new customer 选项。 点击Continue 进入下一页面； | | （3）点击Continue to the Practice Site 进入下一页面填写注册信息； | |...
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...Online Shopping vs. Traditional Shopping Wezley Singleton COM/155 Lee A. Fenstermaker III. Due Date: 22JUL2012 Online Shopping vs. Traditional Shopping As the years pass, technology seems to leap forward exponentially. The capabilities of the home computer have increased so much over the past few decades. Shopping is a ritual that every household in America practices. With the rise of the Internet, companies know the potential consumer base that awaits them. How did they tap into this consumer gold mine? By providing convenient shopping, where consumers can buy products with the click of a button. Online shopping is becoming a much more popular thing these days. With relatively new faces such as Amazon and eBay, and even old players like Wal-Mart and The Home Depot, online shopping is definitely an alternative to traditional shopping. But the question is, which one is more effective, both cost-wise and time-wise? This article will go over the benefits of online shopping vs. traditional shopping, so that you can make an informed decision when trying to decide where to shop. Online shopping, in most situations, is a much more cost and time effective way to shop for many products. It saves you time, money, and spares you of some stress. By the end of this essay, you will see why online shopping is clearly the best option when it comes to where you shop. Saving time is the point and goal of every piece of technology...
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...anGo Market Analysis The goal of this market analysis is to determine the attractiveness of an online gaming market and to understand its evolving opportunities and threats as they relate to the strengths and weaknesses of CanGo. CanGo is a business that has developed in the last few years. Currently CanGo is facing two major challenges: 1) Getting a stable online gaming system up and running as soon as possible 2) Preparing for an anticipated record holiday season. Strengths: The base of CanGo is the difference between being successful, or failing with the new on-line gaming; some of their strengths are: 1) On-line gaming System project is likely to be quickest and easiest to implement. 2) An established online multimedia deliverable system. Opportunities: Globally online gaming is on the upswing and is seeing growth in many geographic regions throughout the world. In social, Where risk is low we must ignore these issues, and not be distracted by them because the return on the investment is consider high in this type of projects (on-line gaming system). One of the opportunities is that the Geographical market can cover many countries, therefore more users, for the on-line gaming project. Weaknesses: Lack of time to organize the project CanGo is trying to be ready for the near holiday season, and money/resources are in short supply. The management team appears to be unprepared and not very good leading their teams to success. To handle all of these...
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...Impact of Technology on my Life’ Technology is so much apart of our lives that we could not imagine a life without it. Technology has helped create the world that we live in. The world is a different place than it used to be, even 40 years ago. The internet has been a huge advance. It has allowed people to become more educated than ever. Information is so accessible. As a student of fashion I find the internet a necessity. Fashion is never ending and there is always new information to discover. The internet is the only way to be up to date on the fashion world because it is so fast paced and changeable. I wouldn’t know half the things I do about the fashion world if it weren’t for the thousands of websites dedicated to it. As someone who wants to be involved in the world of fashion I need to be up to date with trends etc. and the best places to look are certain informative sites like Style.com and londonfashioweek.com. I need to know all the new look for each season and I need to be able to identify the designer who created those looks. The only way of keeping so update is by doing a daily or weekly search online for all the new trends and fashion news. Of course I’m not the only one who is learning things on a daily bases from websites. Millions of adults and students are learning new information or skills everyday online. We, as a population, are growing ever more intelligent and I think the internet has a lot to do with that. No one hands hand-written assignments or...
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...ABSTRACT Despite the development of online shopping around the world, there is still a lack of understanding concerning the benefit of internet shopping in Vietnam. This study aims to compare the popularization of traditional methods of shopping with online shopping and examine the prospect of shopping online in Vietnam. A structure questionnaire was sent out randomly to students at a university in Ho Chi Minh City to collect the necessary data. The results showed that online shopping had not been favored by many people, even ones who frequently access the internet. The study also found some obstacles that limited the development of internet shopping in Vietnam. Applying the suitable ways to deal with the obstacles may help Vietnamese online suppliers attract more customers. INTRODUCTION In Vietnam, since the introduction of the first Internet Service Provider in 1997, the growth of Internet usage has been rapidly growing. Coming with the development of Internet’s growth speed, there are many e - service that Vietnamese people can enjoy such as: email, yahoo chat, sending files, e-banking…One of the most familiar services that Internet brings to people around the world is Internet shopping or online shopping. Online shopping first started in 1994 (Hsin, 2000). It is the process whereby consumers directly buy goods or services over the Internet (Margherio, 1998). A good example is The Dell Online Shopping Store that sells personal computers...
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...Currently in our society, people use computers for virtually anything. The internet was created so that the invention of a computer can reach new peaks. People use computers for their own benefits and desires. Computers have provided many different types of efficient data storage systems and amazing processor that is very informative (Oak). Something that has really become popular because of computers is online shopping. A decade ago, buying any type of good online seemed imaginary, but now it has brought tons of income across the world (Nickson). Instead of going to a store and being limited to what they have on stock, people in our society can now go online to places like Amazon.com, or even a certain to store that they wish to purchase something, and purchase products from limitless categories. Online shopping also allows people from all across the world to sell and purchase goods to people in different areas of the world. I personally use online shopping more because I can find the product that I’m looking for fairly quickly and I can also find great sales and deals online that I might not find in a...
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...1. Introduction Online shopping is a kind of business where consumers can directly shop over the Internet. It has now evolved to become a valuable part of daily lives. According to the Times Magazine, many people now preferring shopping online has increased year by year (In Shopperscrib 2011). Online shopping has become popular because people have many other things to do in their busy life, and shopping online saves time in numerous ways. Statistics produced by Forrester Research Inc. (n.d.) suggest that 60% of consumers shop online at least quarterly. EBay and Amazon are the two most popular and trusted websites for shopping online. Online shopping brings benefits to consumers so it really is a good way to shop. 2. Lower Prices Research by the firm Synovate(n.d.) found that 67% of consumers feel lower prices as the main motivator for them to shop online, with the availability of free shipping the second most important factor. In most cases, when consumers buy from traditional stores, they have to accept the price that the vendor is charging them. This is not the case when it comes to online shopping. With online purchasing, consumers can find radically lower prices and cheapest deals. For example, a DVD player may cost $20 less than the usual retail price at certain online stores. This is because online stores have fewer operating and overhead costs such as no need pay rental costs and renovation costs, which leads to creating lower prices for the consumer. Consumers...
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...hobbies in the world today. People all over the world are always shopping for the newest and most popular gadgets, new clothes, designer brands, and electronics. There are many different ways of shopping but the two most common are in store and online shopping. Although people shop using the internet and retail stores, it is very simple to see that shopping online is more convenient, faster, easier, and cheaper than shopping in retail outlets. When shopping online you can just go sit down have a bite to eat, maybe even a little bit to drink and just get to surfing the web. There is just simply no reason to even leave your chair! This way there is no need for commuting and no worries about having to go all the way up to the 25th floor just to find a parking spot. Online shopping gives you the convenience of being at home and the best part about that is there are no lines! Everybody, even the people who love retail-in store shopping hate having to wait 10 minutes in a line or at busy times maybe even up to an hour which is very time consuming. Although shopping online is much faster sometimes it is necessary to go to a retail store. For instance, if somebody needs a button down shirt for an interview the next morning the convenience and the speed of online shipping won’t really be able to help them. They would need to just go to the retail store so that there will be no shipping time. This way you will have your purchase right away. Although both shopping online and shopping in...
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...the road to write the company's business plan when he was leaving N.Y. City for the Pacific Northwest. On its 15th-anniversary in 2010, Amazon is truly proud to be one of the world largest online retailers, selling everything from musical instruments and sports equipment to household appliances and apparels (Kayla, W. 2010). In our coursework group assignment, we are tasked to study and analyse the strategic management issues of Amazon.com. The case study will base on fourth quarter of 2007 as a current year. We will be evaluating the company's external and internal environments, how the company emerge into the industry by means of its strategies management in dealing with economic, technology & distribution issues and competition. We will also look at the company's vision & mission and it relate to the expansion of its product lines and reach, to increase its revenue and market share, and to understand and consider their possible near-term and long-term objectives that the organization could pursue. Lastly but not least, to out up recommendation for Amazon and conclude it with our learning experiences on BPS module. Page 3 of 27 2. Company Overview Amazon was founded by Mr. Jeff Bezos in 1994 with head office in Seattle, Washington, the company is one of the most customer-centric companies in the World and has grown to be a Fortune 100company. It has a diverse range of product offerings over at extensive network of customer service centers (About Amazon, 2007). Amazon.com...
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...might sell well on the internet. After some intense analysis, he determined that books were at the top of that list. Although Bezos liked the name Abracadabra, he decided to call his online bookshop AMAZON.COM. Today, Amazon.com has more than 40 million customers and sells billions of dollars worth of all types of merchandises. When he started, Bezos had no experience in book selling business, but he realized that books had an ideal shipping profile for online sales. He believed that many customers would be willing to buy books without inspecting them in person and that books could be impulse purchase items if properly promoted on a website. By accepting orders on its website, Bezos believed that Amazon.com could reduce transaction cost in the sale to the customer. More than 4 million book titles are in print at any one time throughout the world, and more than one million of those are in English. However, the largest physical bookstore cannot stock more than 2, 00,000 books and carries even fewer titles because bookstores stock more than one copy of each title. Having a wide selection was important because Bezos believed it would help create a network economic effect. People would visit Amazon.com whenever they wanted to buy a book because it would be the most likely store (physical or online) to have a particular title. After becoming satisfied customers, people would return to Amazon.com to buy more books and stop looking elsewhere. The structure of the supply side of the...
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...able to purchase a shirt or even book a hotel online all from a phone or tablet. Being able to purchase items online is not new, it has been around for years, the thought of this is call ecommerce, ecommerce is the buying and selling or products or services via the internet (Merchant). Before the internet, before ecommerce, we had to go to Wal-Mart, or go into a GNC to get our vitamins that we need. We would spend so much time driving to store after store to get the things we needed, time and gas wasted. So when did online shopping start and how did it come about? The idea of online shopping dates back several decades, it was just not something that was thought of here recently in past few years. The idea of shopping and making purchases online were an idea of man named, Michael Aldrich. It was Michael Aldrich that was credited in the developing the start of online shopping (Merchant). It was Aldrich who back in the late 1970s, that took an old television and connected to a telephone and coined it "teleshopping" which he meant as shopping from a distance, this would be the start of the idea he had in mind (Merchant). The start and creation of the world wide web, or what we like to call the internet would be the milestone that was needed to reach and accomplish Aldrich's dream and goal of ecommerce and being able to make purchases from home or anywhere of that matter. The 1990s and early 2000s is what really got ecommerce and online shopping started, transactions were not that...
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...Flipkart and amazon Abstract With the advent of the information technology, specifically the internet, it is said that more and more companies are existing in the online world. The changes in the business market also allows customers to change and become more dependent on online stores and online shopping than go and find something in shopping malls or retail store. One of the existing and considered as the largest and competitive online shopping in the world is Amazon. In this report, the goal comparative study of flipkart and amazon(in respect of their growth,market study etc and how IT strategy affected their business. . Flipkart has been mostly marketed by word of mouth advertising. Customer satisfaction has been their best marketing medium. Flipkart very wisely used SEO (Search Engine Optimization) and Google The message is very clear to make people more comfortable with Flipkart, to generate a great customer relationship and loyalty on the basis of great product prices and excellent customer service. All in all to create a great customer experience. Amazon has been considered as one of the largest bookstore and online store in the global market. The company has been able to thousands of customers in over 150 nations. Amazon’s main website offers millions of DVDs, music, books and videos not to mention their products from household, electronics, apparel and clothes, cosmetics, drugs and others. Thought the company has highs and lows...
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...Flipkart and amazon Abstract With the advent of the information technology, specifically the internet, it is said that more and more companies are existing in the online world. The changes in the business market also allows customers to change and become more dependent on online stores and online shopping than go and find something in shopping malls or retail store. One of the existing and considered as the largest and competitive online shopping in the world is Amazon. In this report, the goal comparative study of flipkart and amazon(in respect of their growth,market study etc and how IT strategy affected their business. . Flipkart has been mostly marketed by word of mouth advertising. Customer satisfaction has been their best marketing medium. Flipkart very wisely used SEO (Search Engine Optimization) and Google The message is very clear to make people more comfortable with Flipkart, to generate a great customer relationship and loyalty on the basis of great product prices and excellent customer service. All in all to create a great customer experience. Amazon has been considered as one of the largest bookstore and online store in the global market. The company has been able to thousands of customers in over 150 nations. Amazon’s main website offers millions of DVDs, music, books and videos not to mention their products from household, electronics, apparel and clothes, cosmetics, drugs and others. Thought the company has highs and lows...
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