Ebay made its debut in the late 90’s positioning itself to satisfy a consumer trend. Like many successful businesses, they focused heavily on the interests of their consumers. In the mid 90’s there was a stuffed animal called Beanie Babies, each had a cute name and biographical tags, telling you everything you needed to know about that inanimate stuffy. Up until this point there was only a website called “Ty”, which contained an online trading post where people could trade...
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Most are familiar with the massive online shopping website eBay, which connects buys and sellers in a massive online marketplace. eBay hosts more than 11 million product searches per hour and has more than 1 billion products listed at any time (Smith, 2019). Like many others I have used eBay for anything from collectible books to new car parts, you can even by a new car on eBay if you wanted. The way the website works is simple; you create...
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This article will provide various topics regarding eBay as an information system. eBay is a very large corporation and has various levels in it that will be analyzed to the best knowledge. Topics covered will include approaches of the company on a Server-Side. This will include both hardware and software requirements for which eBay uses to operate. The next topic of analysis will include the software and hardware requirements that are necessary from the viewpoint of a client (or user)...
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Abstract This report will identify the issues that eBay had to face when they encounter China market. The author will point out the main reasons which made eBay failed. Finally, the author will give recommendations in order to help eBay go through the difficulties when they entering China. I. Introduction eBay Inc. is an American multinational e-commerce company with headquarters in San Jose, California (eBay, 2019). eBay Inc. also owns another famous brand, Paypal – one of eBay’s main payments....
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Business organizations across the world today are keen to leverage maximum technological advantages and benefits due to the increasing use and applications of modern internet based technologies and devices by consumers globally. Exponential rise in the applications of technology across all industries and societies has revolutionized the way people communicate and think consequently generating a lasting impact on their life styles. Consumers today are keen to explore millions of products on the internet that they intent to purchase. IT revolution...
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Ebay is an American multinational e-commerce corporation. It promotes sales through its website. The eBay website involves an online auction and shopping website in which people and businesses buy and sell extensive variety of merchandise. Basically, this is a digital disruption event, which not only changes the traditional shopping trends, but also the online selling business of eBay itself. In this report, the work centred analysis (WCA) have been performed on the retail business of eBay prior and post implementation...
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E-business Strategy When IBM first introduced the first personal computer (Bibri, 2019), in 1981, the world of technology was bound to evolve to which the sky was the limit. Today, machines are essential tools in technology, especially computers, and with it comes limitless possibilities. It is with this in mind that in 1991, Amazon, the first e-business, was created. Amazon.com was the first e-commerce site in the US to start selling products online, and since then, other ventures like eBay...
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1. Introduction This report seeks to strategically the article, “No-deal Brexit will ‘instantly disrupt’ UK’s role as £174bn global data hub”, extract from The Guardian’s online International edition from the views of Amazon and EBay (Appendix A, page 16) with respect to the economical nature of their businesses. The purpose of the report is to identify and evaluate strategic capabilities of Amazon and Ebay as a result this specific change in world events. The article implies that there will be...
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