The 10K vs. the Annual Report eBay Inc. is one of the largest e-commerce businesses listed in the Fortune 500. Like other companies, eBay Inc. prepares an Annual Report and a 10K every year in which it discloses each activity and financial performance. eBay Inc.’s Annual Report and 10K are designed for different audiences. The Annual Report provides information about the company’s activities and financial performance for shareholders and investors. The 10K is an official document that publicly
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1998 that provided services of transfer money from one another via internet. It started to provide internet payment services in 1999. At first PayPal named as Confinity. In 2001, the name had been changed from Confinity to PayPal. Unluckily, in 2002, eBay successes bought PayPal with US $ 1.5 million. Now, PayPal can said as successful online payment system which recognised by everyone around the world. It is because PayPal have more than 132 million active accounts and operates in 193 worldwide markets
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recommendations on International Commercial Strategy for eBay. As a result from operations in China, there were some lessons to be learned from the unfavourable result of the so-called alliance of eBay and EachNet: * Think globally, act locally – cultural differences can create a strong constrain with the customers and it is necessary to adapt to the local market and its preferences. * Never underestimate your opponent – eBay was outperformed by its competitors that were able to satisfy
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Andy Robeson Strengths: Market Leadership- eBay operates the leading online auction community on the Internet. Market leadership will benefit eBay in a number of ways. Firstly it will enable eBay to maintain a high level of brand awareness for the company and its offerings. Market leadership will also enable eBay to exert a greater influence on the marketplace. For example, the company would be in a better position to combat any new entrants into the market. Intellectual Property- eBay’a
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Business Strategy Established in 1995, eBay is an online auction and shopping website that attracts more than 276million shoppers around the world. The business strategies can be analyzed from the following perspectives. Products and services eBay produces The strategy set by eBay is to create a powerful online platform for the sale of goods and services by a passionate community of individuals and small businesses. On any given day, there are millions of items available through auction-style
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house there because Darnell got a new job. Darnell is not a big fan of Mavis’ shopping-on-Bay-thing. According to him, they can not afford all that stuff, because the still have not sold their old house yet, and now also with all Mavis’ shopping on eBay, it does not make it easier for him to afford two houses. However Darnell does not notice everything Mavis buys, because everything looked familiar for him, or he would think that it was things from her other life she lived. So while Darnell kept
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Analyzing Managerial Decisions: eBay.com 1. How does eBay Create value? eBay created value by ways of connecting businesses and individuals together to sell, trade, buy or trade their products. Many have witness a safe, quick and easy way to move products across the globe. This save on trying to reach buyers and sellers through local or community papers, which limits the amount of people reached. eBay also has the website structured where it is easy to locate what the seller or buyer is
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1. Discuss how Meg Whitman’s leadership reflects transaction leadership? Transaction leadership entails motivating and directing people mainly through appealing to their own personal interest. Transaction leadership focuses on setting performance expectations and goals and providing feedback to followers. Performance goals are promoted by three primary components. These include providing contingent rewards, which leaders set and clarify the goals to reach the short-term and measurable results
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| Internet Scam Artists | | | [Type the author name] | 4/25/2012 | Abstract Scam Artists have been around for centuries. As technology increased so has a new breed of con artist; the online scammer. Using the Internet, the online scammer has become more successful in defrauding a large target audience. This success is the focus of much concern in the past few years. Much is being done on multiple levels of government and within the public and private sectors; online fraud is still
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during the fabled "dot com bubble" and was influenced by many of the forces that made other technology and Internet IPOs so (in)famous. eBay's revenue growth was initially 30 percent or more year over year, making eBay one of the breakout winners of the dot com race. In recently, eBay growth has slowed year over year, then with an increasing proportion of overall growth coming from its payments business and an ongoing process of reorganization and strategic change coming to characterize the marketplace
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