Commerce

Retail e-commerce sales in the United States amounted to 80.451 billion dollars in the first quarter of 2015 and 83.863 billion dollars in the second quarter of 2015 (U. S. Department of Commerce 1-4). In 2017, the total e-commerce retail sales are expected to reach 440.4 billion dollars (Statista par. 1). The market for the instant re-order solution such as Amazon's Dash Button is not new, and the current e-commerce sales volume illustrates the opportunity available. The important thing needed…

(Sophie Kinsella). Amazon is an American electronic commerce and cloud computing company. Amazon is the largest internet based retailer. Walmart was surpassed by Amazon as the most valuable retailer. Product lines for Amazon include several media devices, apparel, baby products, consumer electronics, sports equipment, and more. Amazon’s marketplace allows for Amazon customers to buy and sell. EBay is an American worldwide corporation and e-commerce company. EBay provides consumer-to-consumer and…

Task 1 guidance E-commerce technologies Describe and define the technologies required for e-commerce including the following (P1):- Hardware • Web servers: A server where the entire website is hosted from. This is useful in an e-commerce sense as it manages connections to the site and checks account information against its database. • Download speeds: The speed in which data is sent and received from the internet from specific nodes or user computers. Download speed is important so that the…

The word "commerce" itself is a source of controversy. The Constitution does not explicitly define the word commerce just like the constitution does not define the word man when it comes to the requirements for qualifying to meet the requirement for running for office. Some beliefs that it refers simply to trade or exchanges while others claim that the founding fathers intended for the word commerce to mean commercial and social interactions between citizens of different states. Since there is…

Chamber of Commerce is a large lobbying group representing big businesses. In the 2000 election of Mississippi Supreme Court they paid for countless television ads for a candidate that was more big business friendly than the incumbent, Oliver Diaz. Justice Diaz won that election, but it came with a price. To finance his campaign and compete with U.S. Chamber of Commerce, Diaz had a friend, Paul Minor, co-sign a loan. Minor was a trial lawyer…

The Commerce Clause is here to prevent states from establishing laws and different regulations that would hinder trades and commerce among other states. The commerce clause has the greatest impact on business in general than any other provision in the constitution. As stated in the Gibbons vs Ogden case of 1824 it says that before the commerce clause the states tended to restrict commerce within and beyond their borders and the reason it made it so costly and not well planned out is because they…

government and the state governments is the complicated situation of commerce, and when it is labelled as interstate commerce or intrastate commerce. State legislatures are allowed to enact legislation regulating intrastate commerce, but only the federal legislature can enact laws that regulate interstate commerce. The issue arises when a law whose design regulates intrastate commerce, but inevitably affects interstate commerce. This is the situation in Parker v. Brown (1943), where California…

transit of a vessel along the coast (coastal trading), from one port to another within the territorial limits of the nation ”. In other words, the Jones Act is a series of cabotage laws regulating commerce within the jurisdiction of the United States. Throughout the development of international commerce, cabotage laws have been a source of controversy. The Pro-cabotage movement claims that these laws are necessary in order to “protect domestic shipping market and the jobs associated the U.S.…

Groupon was once the global leader in the e-commerce industry, achieving the reputation as the “fastest growing company in history” with their local coupon daily deals offering attractive discounts to local goods, services, and experiences to their millions of subscribers (Mason, 2015). The future was promising as they intended to be the vehicle connecting customers to small local businesses which may not have had the necessary funds or experience to reach out to potential customers. The…

E-commerce is the trading in products or service using computer networks such as the internet or online social networks. Various sites use this such as Amazon, EBay, Tesco and Asda it is normally the distribution of online goods and services to people. E commerce works when you have something to sell, make it known to potential buyers, accept payments then you deliver the goods or services, and provide appropriate service after the sale. This is an efficient mechanism for advertising and…