Electronic commerce

• Strength Strengths are the advantages, experience, knowledge, resources, quality and reputation that eBay currently got. The biggest strength that eBay got is its brand name. Brand name Ebay was one of the biggest online marketplaces in the world. Ebay was established by Pierre Omidyar in 1995. The reputation of the company is well known. This is be proven by the fact that there have over 100 million of buyer and seller using eBay to sell and purchase things to each others. Therefore, it…

Touch ‘n Go Sdn Bhd applied the Electronic Payment System (EPS) in the business. Touch ‘n Go Sdn Bhd provides a made of payment via a prepaid e-payment smart card called the Touch ’n Go card. The Touch ‘n Go card is an electronic purse that used to pay for toll usage at all highways in Malaysia. Touch ‘n Go Sdn Bhd uses contactless smartcard technology. The credit card-sized Touch ‘n Go smart card is made of plastic with Philips’MIFARE microchip technology (which is locally developed according…

3.1 Web Crawler: The history has demonstrated the evolution of immersive web generations. In 1980 Tim Berners-Lee was the first to identify the problem of information management so did he create the World Wide Web & made it royalty free for public usage. Since the commencement of first website in 1991, there is an increasing amount of web content that makes it more & more difficult to choose right content from trillions of web pages & so web crawler has been designed with an aspiration of…

competitive forces and value chain models. WALMART & AMAZON Competitive Forces 1. Traditional Competitors: In this case Walmart number one competitor would be Amazon because Amazon is the world’s largest e-commerce retailer. No other retailer can match Amazon breadth of selection which is low prices and fast reliable shipping. It is also known as the “Walmart of the web” and is the world’s largest and most powerful online selling machine. Amazon number…

From the figure, it can be seen that e-Commerce revenues increases its portion of 32.5% to 47.2% in total revenues of adidas in Western Europe market. In boosting e-Commerce sales figure, adidas is committed to service innovation along the e-Commerce process to improve customer shopping experience and enhance customer value for the firm. For example, the “Knit for you” project is carried out to understand customer preferences as well as how flexibility in production can be used to create an…

Zulily is an e-commence website that provides its consumers flash sales every day. In mid-2009, Vadon and Cavens chose “Zulily” to be the company’s name. After that, “Zulily went live on January 27, 2010 with an initial focus on children’s apparel (Gayomali, 2015)”. Several months later, Zulily decided to expend their merchandise category. The company added women’s products on sale in December 2010. In 2013, Zulily wen to public and its market cap increased up to $7 billion in 2014. Target…

transaction made or received with a mobile phone at a point of sale. In other words, mobile payments are regulated, secure, fast, and convenient transactions that take place digitally through your mobile device. It requires that each customer carry an electronic wallet that has a secure code to allow the transaction to take place. Throughout the years the mobile payment industry had evolved dramatically, it all started by “David Chaum, an…

PAC Resources A Case Study EXECUTIVE SUMMARY The Organization PAC resources were founded in 1994 by current CEO, David Dukakis. PAC resources started the company in small rented quarters in nearly vacant strip mall. Dukakis brought in Cliff McNamara early on as chief financial officer. McNamara managed the business, and Dukakis was the idea man and designer of the specialty components, patents of which were the backbone of PAC’s…

Amazon has become the shopping method of choice over the past years, as a result Amazon is now worth more as company than the archaic Walmart. Before the internet Walmart was the top one stop place to shop for all of someone’s needs. At the time it was the most innovative form of shopping the human race has seen. However, after the internet and eventually the perfection of Amazon there has been a drastic shift. People now prefer the form of online shopping of Amazon instead of Walmart. Over the…

Toys “R” Us is considered to be a brick and mortar (BAM) type of retailer and like most BAM retailers, it faced the challenges of ecommerce. (EAI Journal, October 2000) In the early 90’s, Toys “R” Us had a lack luster website. The website layout was confusing with few products listed and very little information about them. There were disclaimers that products on the website may vary from those in the store and supply was limited. (Rothfeder, April 2000) As a result, Toys “R” Us fell behind in…