1435450 BY CAROL XIAOJUAN OU, ROBERT M. DAVISON Why eBay Lost to TaoBao in China: The Global Advantage electronic commerce involves electronically-facilitated transactions between consumers through third parties.9 In China, a number of C2C platforms have emerged, such as eBay (China), TaoBao and PaiPai. TaoBao, established in 2003, has quickly assumed a dominant position in this market, underlined by the December 2006 decision by eBay to quit the C2C market in China altogether,4, 8 merging its
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eBay - eCommerce Platform A case study in Scalability by Mohammad Usman Ahmed mohammad.ahmed@mail.mcgill.ca Table of Contents: 1. 2. 3. 4. 5. 6. 7. 8. The Application and its overall architecture Component Model and its interactions Technological aspects of the eBay Architecture Strengths and relative weaknesses of the Architecture Component Model and variations Key Quality Attributes favoured by the eBay Architecture Evolution of the Application and its Architecture
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Jeff Skoll as a partner and the venture was incorporated as eBay. Two years later, Omidyar asked Meg Whitman to direct corporate strategy to continue the accelerated growth rate of the company. Whitman brought to the company global management and marketing experience and soon became President and CEO. In almost no time, the company became one of the Web’s most successful sites, with 233 million registered users. By 2007, the average eBay user spent nearly two hours a month on the site—more than five
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Comparison of eBay.com and Alibaba.com Thomas Liquori o h T a m i L s o u q . i r e m Digitally signed by Thomas Liquori DN: cn=Thomas Liquori, email=thomasliquori@a ol.com, o=thomasliquori.me, l=New York, NY Date: 2010.09.05 16:57:16 -04'00' 12/16/2009 Professor Reddi: BUS451 By: Thomas Liquori, Danauda Benjamin, and Anca Barbu EBay.com Introduction .................................................................................................................
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Summary of the case facts The eBay auction site was started in 1995 under the name Auction web. Auction Web made no guarantees; there were no fees, no security, and very few items. The site changed drastically when the creator posted the site listing on the National Center for Supercomputing Applications’ What’s Cool list. After the posting on the list, traffic began to increase and the business turned a profit in 1996. By 1998 the Auction Web site had taken on the name eBay and it went public. Constant
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The History of eBay eBay was founded in Pierre Omidyar's San Jose living room back in September 1995. It was from the start meant to be a marketplace for the sale of goods and services for individuals. In 1998, Pierre and his cofounder Jeff Skoll brought in Meg Whitman to sustain the success. Meg had studied at the Harvard Business School and had learned the importance of branding at companies such as Hasbro. Meg culled her senior staff from companies such as Pepsico and Disney, created an experienced
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Assignment for eBay and Amazon (Group 7 will present this case in class on November 7) Case Questions: 1. 2. 3. 4. What are the key drivers of profitability in eBay’s business model? What are the key drivers of profitability in Amazon’s retail business model? How does its retail business model interact with that of eBay? As it shifted to a retail and platform business model, how successful was Amazon in overcoming barriers to entry in the third-party seller market? What would you recommend eBay going forward
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In December 2006, eBay Inc., a US company that offered e-commerce, e-payments and internet communication services globally, announced its plan to form a joint venture with China-based online portal and wireless operator, TOM Online, in which eBay would have 49% ownership.1 The move reflected the increasing difficulties foreign internet companies were facing in their attempts to snatch a share of the Chinese market amid fierce competition and a changing market environment. eBay first set foot in China
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International Research Journal of Engineering and Technology (IRJET) e-ISSN: 2395-0056 Volume: 02 Issue: 08 | Nov-2015 p-ISSN: 2395-0072 www.irjet.net Comparative study of Flipkart.com, Snapdeal, E-bay: India’s Leading E-business Portals Sheeba Praveen Prof.(Dr.) Devendra Agarwal Sumaiya faizyab Dept. CSE,Integral University Babu Banarasi Das Engineering College Dept. CSE, Integral University Lucknow ,U.P. Lucknow, U.P. Lucknow,U.P. --------------------------------
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digital ad campaigns, which offers eBay’s customers personalized, relevant ads they will actually want to see. Because marketers know that an effective digital ad campaign needs to reach the right customers with right message. eBay Enterprise Display is powered by the eBay Audience Platform. It is unique in its ability to use first party commerce data to understand consumer behavior, and apply it in real time to display and targeting and optimization. By skillful applying that knowledge they can
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