...Ankit Singh and Juan Alberto Calero Part A – e-Commerce in China vs USA 1. Overall, what are some key opportunities and challenges (obstacles) that confront ecommerce in China? How are these challenges similar / different from those confronting e-commerce in the US (or other countries that you are more familiar with)? Some of the key opportunities of e-commerce in China are: The internet penetration rate in China is growing at a much faster rate as compared to other countries. 25.5% users in China have engaged in e-commerce, while in US 71% has done so. This represents an enormous opportunity for e-commerce services, given that there is room for growth in China. The market is China is still in the beginning of its growth stage. The manufacturing prowess of china provides an excellent complement to the ecommerce market. Online shopping market has grown 64.1% over last year to $1.5 Billion. Online B2B market is valued at 65.7 B 69.8% yearly growth. With these accelerated growth rates, the e-commerce market will developed very quickly, players need to be aware of the stage of e-commerce in China and address the market accordignly. Small and medium sized enterprises (SMEs) contribute to 68.8% of nation gross industrial output. Only 28% of SMEs utilised third-party B2B e-commerce platform. The government has a plan to increase it to 80% by 2012. Given this, the projected demand for e-commerce is known. In addition , players also known which type of businesses are using e-commerce...
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...The Ties Between Two Search Engines Katie Trevino Now that we have looked at the financial ratios of both companies we will take a look into the history of Google and Yahoo we will see where the two companies became the top search engines. We will also see where the two companies are very similar and where they are complete opposites. Both companies will stand out in two different ways. The report will show a company that shows potential growth, while the other shows issues and different path for their business. In the history aspect of our decision, we want to remind you that it may be completely different from what is found in the financial analysis. The background information on what is happening behind closed doors may be very useful. The beginning of Google started in 1995 with Sergey Brin, 21, giving Larry Page, 22, a tour of the Michigan University campus. A year later BackRub was started as a search engine running on Stanford servers but shortly became over powering. In 1997, BackRub was changed to Google. Brin and Page wanted to name their company that would be based off the word “Googol”. Googol is a mathematical term for the number represented by the numeral 1 followed by 100 zeros. (Google) This was their motto word to show their goal of having on going information available on the web. Google became a company on September 27, 1998 shortly after receiving a $100,000 check from Andy Bechtolsheim. (Google) Brin and Page used this money to hire...
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...appendices, if needed, containing correspondence or other supporting schedules and documents, including the financial statements) I. Introduction Yahoo! Inc. is a main player of internet information provider industry. Based on their I good operation performance in recent few years, more and more investor are re-purchasing their stocks. II. History and background on the company The US Public company, Yahoo! Inc. (Yahoo!), found in 1994 has been one of the largest technology company in the world. At the begining, the founders of the company create a website named “jerry and David’s Guild to the World Wide Web”, a simple directory of websites to help people navigate the Internet. In march 1994, that website name was renamed “Yahoo”. The “Yahoo.com” domain was incorporated in 1995 and is a Delaware corporation. Yahoo grew rapidly throughout the 1990s. As other companies of search engines and web directors, Yahoo added a web portal. At the year of 1998, Yahoo was the most popular starting page for web users. It also brought many high-profile acquisitions. Its stock price increased sharply during dot-com bubble, when it made the highest stock price of $118.75 a share on January 3, 2000. Unfortunately, after the dot-com bubble burst, it reached a post-bubble low of $8.11 on September 26,2001. In 2000, Yahoo began using Google for search. Over the next four...
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...Introduction: Yahoo Inc. in the last three months has been in the news, and the news has not been about investment in research and development (R&D), new products introduction and shareholders’ value creation strategy. On November 24, 2015, Standard and Poor’s (S&P), a credit-rating firm announced the cutting of Yahoo rating outlook to negative (BB+) from stable citing the decline in revenue growth and higher cost of attracting traffic to its website (CNBC, November 24, 2015). The rate cut will increase the cost of capital, reduce profit and reduce shareholders wealth. On November 9, 2015, Reuter’s News reported the hiring of the consulting firm McKinsey & Co. The focus of the consulting firm was to assist with the reorganization of the company’s core business (Reuters, November 9, 2015). The decision was a surprise development to the shareholders in that the current management under the leadership of Ms. Marissa Meyer had been at the helms of Yahoo affairs for almost four years and had spent about $7 billion on R&D, Merger and Acquisition. The turnaround initiatives expected with Ms. Meyer’s appointment as the Chief Executive Officer has not come into being, for there has been a high turnover of senior executives. The board of directors and senior management has failed in their attempts to turn around the firm. Yahoo share price has declined year to date by 34% as of November 25, 2015, whereas its’ main competitors Facebook, Goggle, and Microsoft...
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...Can Marissa Mayer Save Yahoo? By Brad Stone on August 01, 2013 http://origin-www.businessweek.com/articles/2013-08-01/can-marissa-mayer-save-yahoo Marissa Mayer is sitting in URLs, the Yahoo! (YHOO) cafeteria, making the case for the future of a company that almost everyone in Silicon Valley views as doomed. Employees swarm around her, assembling rows of chairs for the afternoon’s FYI, a new weekly ritual where employees get to lob questions at Mayer and her executive team. It’s been a long July, in which Mayer’s one-year anniversary as chief executive officer was marked with an uninspiring second-quarter earnings report. Mayer prefers to focus on the company’s increase in Web traffic. She won’t give numbers but says it’s enough to erase the entire decline from the previous year. “Name another Internet giant that went through three years of decline and then started to grow again,” she says. “It’s a very good sign.” When Mayer left her executive role at Google (GOOG), she knew she was taking on what might be the hardest job in the Valley. Yahoo has had a lost decade, laboring under a series of failed product strategies and CEOs. It was a Web directory under founders Jerry Yang and David Filo, then a Web portal under Tim Koogle. Terry Semel made it a tech company with Hollywood pretensions, and, most recently, it languished under Carol Bartz and Scott Thompson as a dot-com relic known mostly for losing its top talent to competitors. Now Mayer wants to transform it into...
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...yahoo2013.tumblr.com YAHOO 2013 ANNUAL REPORT EDITORIAL EXCELLENCE YAHOO ON THE ROAD MONTHLY MOBILE USERS “2013 was a year of tremendous progress at Yahoo.” YAHOO IN NYC SEARCH 400M+ Enhancing Search TOP TECH TALENT monthly mobile users INCREASE IN AVERAGE MONTHLY USERS TALENT TUMBLR ACQUISITION 340,000+ Job Applications 800M+ average monthly users YAHOO 2013 ANNUAL REPORT NEW MAIL EXPERIENCE YAHOO WEATHER APP 50% YAHOO SPORTS Nearly half of new hires had design, engineering, or product backgrounds YAHOO NEWS DIGEST NEW LOGO TO OUR SHAREHOLDERS 2013 was a year of tremendous progress at Yahoo. Our mission at Yahoo is to make the world’s daily habits more inspiring and entertaining. From Search, Communications, Digital Magazines and Video to Flickr and Tumblr, daily habits are our heritage and our inspiration. We re-imagined every core product to create more engaging, delightful experiences for our users across the globe. We also invested in our ad technology to build value for our advertising partners. 2013 was also a year of remarkable innovation at Yahoo. We continued to rethink and rework the Search user experience. We are investing in Mail—the ultimate daily habit—to keep users connected with friends and family. We are focused on bringing users the best content from across the Web, through our partnerships with Comedy Central, SNL, NBC Sports, ABC News, CBS’s The Insider and others. We are also investing in editorial...
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...CASE STUDY FOR NIKE ------------------------------------------------- COMPANY PROFILE NIKE, Inc. (NIKE), incorporated on September 8, 1969, is engaged in design, development, marketing and selling of athletic footwear, apparel, equipment, accessories and services. NIKE is a seller of athletic footwear and athletic apparel across the world. ------------------------------------------------- Competition With Adidas Heating Up in Europe Nike has been gaining market share in Europe. According to data from Euro monitor, Adidas had 13.2% share of the western European sporting goods market in 2012, while Nike’s share stood at 12.4 percent. Nike reported an 11% rise in sales in western Europe in the first half of fiscal 2014, while Adidas posted a fall of 6 percent at constant currencies in its third quarter. The competitor gaining the most ground as of 2014 is Under Armour. The company is actively pursuing lucrative U.S. sponsorship deals similar to Nike’s, giving it a growing piece of market revenue. In Europe, Adidas is developing new products to compete head to head with the giant. Chinese companies Anta and Li Ning show a steady increase in sales within China. Both Puma and Skechers occupy a smaller part of the athletic apparel market, but both enjoy increasing revenues. ------------------------------------------------- KEY ISSUES OF NIKE Like almost every other global supply chain, Nike's global supply chain is a complex network that directly connects and impacts...
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...2 A N N UA L R E PO R T — 1 2012 Annual Report Every day, millions of people around the globe choose to make Yahoo! a part of their daily digital routines. Yahoo! is relentlessly focused on making the world’s daily habits inspiring and entertaining. We’re well positioned to serve users’ everyday passions and needs — whether they’re searching for information, emailing, sharing photos of their families or friends, or simply checking the weather, sports scores or stock quotes. We are committed to bringing users the best products and the most immersive digital experiences, personalized to their interests, across screens and platforms. This focus on product excellence is key to engaging even more users, delivering value for our partners and advertisers, and creating powerful momentum for a new cycle of innovation and growth at Yahoo!. We believe that our commitment to the people who work at Yahoo! will have long-lasting benefits for our users, advertisers, partners, and shareholders. To our shareholders It’s been an exciting year at Yahoo! — one of great change and great inspiration. We have significantly increased our pace of execution and focused on product excellence, user experience, and growth. Our financials have seen continued stability; in fact, 2012 was our first year of ex-TAC revenue growth in four years. Over the past 18 years, Yahoo! has become a daily habit for hundreds of millions of users worldwide and has grown into one of the Internet’s most loved...
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...CASE: A-197 DATE: 02/05/09 BAIDU.COM, INC.: VALUATION AT IPO Since its official launch in January 2000, Baidu.com, Inc. (Baidu) quickly grew to become the leading Internet search engine in China. After three rounds of private funding, Baidu registered to go public on the NASDAQ Stock Market (Ticker Symbol: BIDU) on August 5, 2005. (See Exhibits 1 and 2 for a listing of Baidu’s private funding sources and pre-IPO share allocations.) The initial public offering (IPO) turned out to be one of the highest-profile debuts since the Internet bubble burst in 2000. The stock price jumped 354 percent on the first day of trading and closed at $122.54, valuing the company at about $3.96 billion based on 32.3 million shares outstanding. While the market showed strong enthusiasm for the stock, Baidu’s public offering nevertheless generated much debate in the investment community about the underlying value of the firm. Furthermore, concerns were raised about whether or not Baidu was able to sustain its growth rate and exceed investor expectations after the IPO. Factors leading to this uncertainty included: the state of the Internet-paid search market in China, the expected growth in the marketplace, the competitive landscape, and the strength of Baidu’s business model and strategic position. BACKGROUND ON CHINA’S ADVERTISING AND ONLINE ADVERTISING MARKETS Advertising Market From 1995 to 2005 China’s advertising market grew at a compounded annual growth rate (CAGR) of 17...
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...GOOGLE IN CHINA Page 154 Case Study 1-3 September 3, 2011 IBA 301.90 Principles of International Business Chad Heidorn What Philosophical principle did Google’s manager’s adopt when deciding that the benefits of operating in China outweighed the costs? When google managers decided that benefits of operating outweighed the costs they adopted a utilitarian approach. According to Utilitarian and Kantian ethics, “Most moral philosophers see value in Utilitarian and Kantian approaches to business ethics” ( Hill, 2011, p. 138). Even though Google was blocked by the Chinese authorities in 2002, users were directed to a Chinese rival and Google realized the potential of benefits it would get out of being in China. Google was to provide all information via the internet, but the chinese government was proactive censoring the information. China has a large potential internet market where Google can make a great number of profits. It was also wise for Google to give the Chinese users access to a limited amount of information, then to none at all. There was two choices to choose from, it could continue operations from the USA and not have the proper equipment needed, or open a operation in China, impose self censorship and give limited information to its users. Do you think that Google should have entered China and engaged in self-censorship, given the company’s long standing mantra “Don’t be evil”? Is it better to engage in self-censorship than have the government censor...
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...1. Analyze the key factors that have caused eBay to struggle in Japan, China, and other Asian markets to determine if these mistakes could have been avoided. One factor that has made eBay to struggle in Asian countries was its failure to recognize the differences that existed between the Asian markets and market users and the American markets and markets users. This lack of understanding made eBay to use the strategies it had used in the US to enter the Japanese and the American markets. At the initial launch in Japan eBay set out to use collectibles this strategy was successful in the US market. This seemed to have failed as the Japanese user seemed to have preferred new products. The second mistake was eBay strategy to charge commission on each transaction as it did in the US. The Japanese market did not favor this as they were not used to pay commission or monthly charges. The second factor that made eBay to struggle in the Asian markets is its strategy of attempting to dominate the market by crashing all competition including the local. This proved to be a wrong kind of strategy as local competitors had a competitive edge over eBay. This was demonstrated by eBay earlier battle with Alibaba for the control of the Chinese market which eBay ended up losing badly to the local players. Due to the differences in market and business environments in Asia local companies that are used to these environments usually find an edge over foreign entrants and strategies such as that used...
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...The first and most significant accomplishment in my career is my initiative of a modification in the designing of a project and its work-flow which saved the life of a dying product. In early phases of my career, I was hired as Software developer by a startup company. Six months into my first project, I got to know that the marketing team was struggling to get a prospective buyer of that product. Company decided to terminate the development, as they had some big projects lined up and decided to divert all its focus and energy towards them. It was a small company with around 20 personnel, so did not follow all the professional courtesies that one may imagine in an enterprise. A good example may be, that company decisions were announced on the lunch table. This being my first professional project, I got emotionally attached to it at a certain level. I could not see it dying. In a meeting with the CEO, when informed about the halting of the project for a few months, I suggested to launch this product as open web portal till the time we get a potential buyer for it. As launching it would not require much additional investment and resources, since only the interface of application had to be changed according to web portal, he decided to give it a thought. Meanwhile I was shifted to another project. Though I started working on another project, the idea of a web portal was still at the back of my mind. I started working on designing the User Interface for web portal after office hours...
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...Google, according to estimates of total Global market share is a leading search engine company with its highest 86% of market share, but looking in a smaller perspective, Google, have another regional biggest competitor in Russia – Yandex. Yandex is an internet technology company that operates in Russia and Turkey. It is the largest Russian and fifth-largest world internet search engine. As of December 2011, Yandex had 60.9% of the Russian search market. Yandex mission is to give the answer to the user anytime and anywhere. Company, similar to Google provides its services for desktop and mobile users and develops embedded solutions as well. The company specializes on highly-targeted sophisticated web search and information retrieval services. Yandex provides localized services for its users, as well as enables them to search for websites in other languages. In addition to web search the company offers dozens of free online services, granting access to extensive local, national and international information. The services include maps; traffic jams information; photo hosting; news service; blog search; spam-free email and many others. Yandex is the second after Google technology debut, whose stock has risen as much as 68 per cent since it was listed on Nasdaq in 2011. According to financial times, Yandex has earnings multiple of about 85 times net income, higher than Google`s, at 19 times earnings, and almost matching that of Baidu, China’s top search site, at 87 times earnings...
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...CEO of Yahoo!, effective the following day. Mayer changed the overall business strategy which had been changing over the years because Yahoo! was quite often changing its CEO. The constant changes in leadership made Yahoo! appear to be an unstable company, and Mayer hoped to fix that. She has not said exactly what the company’s strategy is, but we can of course make assumptions based on what strategies she’s been implementing and what she’s been changing. As we can take form her Q&A session during the Goldman Sachs (GS) Technology and Internet conference on February 12th, 2013 (CNN.com), she is focusing the company on the “big four” (search, display ads, mobile, and video). Right now Yahoo! offers about 60 mobile apps and they want to bring it down to 12-14. They will also be revamping and updating the apps that do stay, all in an effort to, as she put it, “services are No. 1”. On February 20th, 2013, Yahoo! began rolling out their new and improved homepage. The webpage has a design intended to “deliver a consistent experience across the desktop, tablets, and phones that gives users a bottomless, personalized well of news and information, while at the same time delivering targeted ads across devices” (Wired.com). There were major changes to Yahoo Mail, and their new Flickr app. With many new features such as an infinite news scroll, with the ability to set preferences to determine what pops up in the infinite scroll, therefore creating maximum satisfaction which Yahoo! hoped...
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...INTRODUCTION Yahoo! Inc. acronym for “Yet Another Hierarchical Officious Oracle” (Gil P.) is an American multinational Internet corporation with headquarters in Sunnyvale, California. It was founded in January 1994 by Jerry Yang and David Filo and incorporated on 1st March 1995. Its present CEO and President from July 17, 2012 is Marissa Mayer (Pariroth N.,2012). It’s services include Web Portal, Yahoo Search, Yahoo Groups, Yahoo Directory, Yahoo News, Yahoo Finance, Yahoo Answers, online mapping, fantasy sports and Yahoo mail which is a free email service launched in 1997, and Yahoo Mail was the third-largest web-based email service with 281 million users as of December 2012 (Molla R.,2012) Yahoo email accounts have been continuously hijacked by hackers since January 2013. This has caused serious mail insecurities among Yahoo account holders. A cross-site scripting (XSS) proof-of-concept developed by a security researcher Shahin Ramezany is claimed to put some 400 million Yahoo Mail users at risk of hijack (Donohue B.,2013). The XSS vulnerability in yahoo webmail service was blamed for a spate of the account hijackings. The compromised accounts were used to send spam. (ISHA SURI,2013) Security researcher Shahin Ramezany developed an XSS proof-of-concept exploit that he claims puts some 400 million Yahoo Mail users at risk of having their accounts taken over. 1.1 DECISION MAKING AND PROBLEM SOLVING The ASK SIR L model is used to describe the approach taken by Yahoo in solving...
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