Technology There is an increase in broadcasting‚ information and telecommunications technologies for internet access Increased frequency of use and sources (e.g. mobile devices‚ TV etc) for internet access by online shoppers Economic High interest rates slow UK consumer spending. The credit squeeze and the housing slump has reduced consumer spending in the USA. However‚ consumer spending is rising in China and India due to high economic growth in both countries. Internet retailing
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Environmental issues Summary The Nigerian states‚ Bodo in Orgoniland are faced with a crucial shell oil spill 1‚640 barrels have leaked. This has impact the environment‚ destroyed fishing grounds and has negatively erupted the local community. Governments are working in progress with agencies‚ seeking more than £93million pounds in order to clean up the creeks‚ which‚ even four years after the spill‚ remain coated in oil. Analysis This article relates to the module topics of environmental
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declining cost of communications as a result of both technological improvements and increased competition. Today‚ innovations in information technology are having wide-ranging effects across society so‚ Choices made now will have long lasting consequences‚ and attention must be paid to their social and economic impacts. With the Internet‚ e-commerce is rapidly expanding into a fast-moving‚ open global market with an ever-increasing number of participants. The open and global nature of e-commerce is likely
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ONLINE BUSINESS Introduction Social media is used to connect to other people‚ search through web and as an instrument of entertainment. Aside from these‚ the most important feature of social media is to use it as a business‚ they called it online business. Online business is often assumed by internet marketers that all business is done online by using internet as a medium for marketing products and services. People engage in this kind of business because it is convenient to use and a way for
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URL-http://www.idea-group.com IDEA GROUP PUBLISHING 16#%%# Building an Online Grocery Business: The Case of asda.com Irene Yousept‚ University of Newcastle upon Tyne Business School‚ UK Feng Li‚ University of Newcastle upon Tyne Business School‚ UK EXECUTIVE SUMMARY This paper uses the case of ASDA.com‚ ASDA’s home-shopping arm‚ to demonstrate the challenges in building and developing an online grocery business in the UK. To set the stage‚ the initial implementation and learning from phone/catalogue
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E2. Online business examples of crime All businesses‚ including web businesses‚ must comply with laws and regulations. Internet businesses can encounter a wider base of laws more quickly when crossing traditional boundaries. Some online businesses have faced legal troubles for committing a crime‚ breach of contract‚ and engaging in a tortious action. For example‚ Ninjavideo.net faced criminal charges for providing users the access to illegally download infringing copies of copyrighted movies and
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My main business objective for this project is to open up an Online Service Website. A website that allows people to order groceries online and have them delivered to their homes. Target customers would include housewifes‚ pregnant mothers‚ gamers‚ and generally people who stay home a lot or too busy to go out to do grocery shopping. My two main competitors would be Safeway Online Grocery and InstaCart. They are both very well-known and are used by many customers‚ however there has been complaints
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engaging in B2B‚ or business-to-business e-commerce when you buy products or services for your own business. B2C‚ or business-to-customer‚ is far more common; it occurs when you buy products online for yourself. Additionally‚ there are two types of online stores. These are "Pure Click" and "Brick and Click." The first denotes an online operation that has no physical store‚ and the second refers to an online operation that has at least one physical store. The Process When you do business over the Internet
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Assignment One BUS 107 April 19‚ 2012 Professor 1. Identify the advantages and disadvantages of taking your small business online by performing a SWOT analysis 2-4 items in each category. The online business I am going to start is Earl’s Flowers Togo. We sell flowers arrangements and candies online and we have a brick and mortar store. One of our strengths is that we sell affordable high quality flower arrangements with name brand candy. We have a website that is very internet friendly
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" True False A business is any organization that is engaged in making a product or providing a service for a profit. True False Businesses and society are independent of one another. True False The stakeholder theory of the firm argues that a firm’s sole purpose is to create value for its shareholders. True False The instrumental argument for the stakeholder theory of the firm says that companies perform better if they consider the rights and concerns of multiple groups in society. True False The
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