3.1 Brief History
Eighteen people led by Jack MA, a former English teacher from Hangzhou, China, founded Alibaba goup in 1999. At first, it is an English-language website Alibaba.com, a global wholesale marketplace. Then group raises US$5 million from a consortium of investors, it begins to create new online business, in this background the website Taobao Marketplace is founded. In December 2004, Alipay, currently a related company of Alibaba Group, is launched as a third-party online payment platform. With fast development of online business, Alibaba builds strategic partnerships with linked partners like, Yahoo and completes several acquisitions. Until now, Alibaba group has touched activities of electronic payment, cloud-based
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During the competition with eBay, relying on free strategy and the right marketing strategy, Alibaba access to a huge market share. Today, Taobao, the platform of online shopping as Alibaba’s principal activity, is becoming the "retail empire". And then, Alibaba built corporation relationships with other partners in order to consolidate the supply chain and online management, which provided the large basis for its future development. At last, with the help of its subsidiary Alimama, the platform of advertising, Alibaba group entered into advertising sector and created the new form of third party platform gathering a huge number of advertising demand and need. Ali Mama fully absorb the experience of successful operation of Alibaba Group B2B and C2C e-commerce trading platform, it is another innovation for Chinese domestic Internet environment …show more content…
This initiation represented that Alibaba entered the field of electronic payment. Currently, the business sellers supporting the use of Alipay transaction services have crossed 300,000 , covering a variety of areas of virtual games, business services, plan tickets, etc., it can be said to maximize the value of Alipay product and service to the extreme. The acquisition of YahooChina is the most direct expression of its vertical integration strategy initiatives. Since many online transactions are done through search, Alibaba’s acquisition of YahooChina not only win the world's leading search technology, but also control the upstream industry chain of e-commerce, so that the overall development of group is becoming more
6am- I arrived at the home of Meahar Unisa, Hassan Abbs, Humza Abbs, Asaab Abbs. Everyone was home. I did a house check. The house was clean. 6:20am- Everyone is in bed.
The Trans-Saharan trade network was a vital factor in the affluence of Western African civilizations. In Document A, is a map of Ibn Battuta’s journey through various trade routes spreading through multiple continents during the fourteenth century. Small pictographs are drawn on the map to display the aspects of each culture that Ibn Battuta visited (Doc A). The map illustrates the extent of the Trans-Saharan Trade Network and how it connected West Africa with other regions across the globe.
NEIGHBOURHOOD OF THE WEEK: HOMES FOR SALE IN ABACOA JUPITER FL Looking for a great deal in real estate plus a wonderful community for your family, Abacoa might just be the best option for you. Homes for sale in Abacoa Jupiter Fl offer an extensive range of entertainment opportunities, with sundry annual festivals and weekly events that appeal to different members of the family being held conventionally in Abacoa 's town center. These events and festivals include things like: • The Feast of Little Italy • ArtiGras • Jupiter Brewfest • Main Street Classic Car Show • Concerts in the amphitheater But, Abacoa boasts not only of entertainment but also recreation and sports.
Bethany Tegt HONORS 370.2 Research Paper #1 The Silk Route Between Europe and Asia, there is a great geographical divide, a rocky and mountainous area known as the Himalaya mountain range. In addition, the Taklimakan desert also encases the divide between these two areas. For many years, these geographical challenges separated the two continents from ever meeting. Other routes were unknown to either civilization, and neither knew of the others existence. However, when ancient Chinese civilizations started to explore and conquer these areas, they came to the conclusion that those in the west had many valuables and interesting technology to share with those of the Chinese empire.
Indian Ocean Trade: The Indian Ocean trade routes ran through Southeast Asia, India, Arabia, and East Africa. During the classical era it involved the Mauryan Empire, the Han Dynasty, and the Achaemenid Empire. Coastal areas used dhows, a type of boat, to maneuver the seasonal monsoon winds, and after the domestication of camels trade goods such as silk, porcelain, spices, slaves, incense and ivory became popular. The Indian Ocean trade routes also influenced the spread of religions such as Buddhism, Hinduism, and Jainism. Silk Road: The Silk Road was established in the Han Dynasty of China.
Mansa Musa was the wealthiest religious leader of all empires in Africa. During his era, people ventured on a religious pilgrimage in Africa. Mansa Musa was a monotheistic, Muslim leader who wanted to spread the Islam belief of one god and diminish the polytheistic faith while following the 5 Pillars from the Muslim holy book, the Koran, throughout his religious pilgrimage across Africa to the city of Mecca. During the pilgrimage, Mansa Musa combines many religious factors to inform and influence other people about Islam. On Mansa Musa's hajj, 60,000 people followed him (Document A).
Anju Kumar AP World History Mr. Kroeger Prompt: Analyze continuities and changes that occurred along the Silk Roads during time period of 200 B.C.E to 1450 along the Silk Roads from 200 B.C.E. to 1450 C.E. The Silk was a trading route that was created during the Han Dynasty. The trading route began in China and acted as the main route for trading through the different parts of Eurasia. There were many different goods that were traded along the route.
Between 500 and 1500 CE, many major trade routes that emerged were experiencing changes. One major trade route, the Silk Roads, experienced many changes that was brought on by the region. However, the Silk Roads still retained some of it’s traditions that had made it a substantial trade route in the first place. The Silk Roads went through many continuities and changes as trading occurred during the Post-Classical era. Continuities included the trading of luxury goods and changes included a variation in security.
COMPANY: TESCO MALAYSIA SDN BHD Executive Summary Tesco Malaysia Sdn Bhd was founded in 2001 and is based in Kuala Lumpur, Malaysia. It owns and operates hypermarkets in Malaysia. Besides has its own food and non-food products, Tesco Malaysia also offers fresh produce, groceries, household items and apparel. The study investigated whether investing in Tesco Malaysia Sdn Bhd is a viable option for PERC. The study consisted of an analysis of Tesco Malaysia business overview and the industry itself, and based on information collected from variety of sources: Asian Grocery Sector Overview’s report, sources from internet and census data.
Introduction Whenever someone argues that college dropouts are incapable of achieving anything in life, bring up Bill Gates’s name. Bill Gates, a Harvard dropout, is one of the richest men in the United States due to the gargantuan success of a business he started with Paul Allen, which is known as Microsoft (Bill Gates Biography.com, 2017). Nobody can deny that Bill Gates has had a massive impact on the technological world. However, in this essay, we study the leadership qualities that made Bill Gates one of the most successful people in the entire world.
Amazon Web Services (AWS) was upgraded with Microsoft products such as Microsoft Amazon Web Services (AWS) launched Amazon CloudFront, a high performance, self-service, pay-as-you-go method of distributing data over the internet. Amazon Web Services (AWS) introduced Public Data Sets which enabled developers and researchers to cost-effectively create, share and consume sets of data free of charge. Amazon launched Amazon Currency Converter, to pay purchases in the currency of customer’s payment card, instead of US dollars. Amazon launched “Bill Me Later” for its customers to complete purchases instantly online without using a credit card.
Causes According to Amin & Noor (2013), the E-consumers generally refer to the purchaser of goods and services over electronic systems such as Internet and other computer networks. This new group of consumers is increasing in number over the years as on-line shopping become a trend and manifestation of modern life style. Based from the Paynter & Lim (2001), E-commerce would provide consumers with benefits such as interactive communications, fast delivery, and more customization that would only be available for consumers through online shopping. Product information in the Internet is more compact and it ranges from various sites.
Starting your own small business and making it a worldwide company, is not easy at it sounds. This is known as entrepreneurship. There are lots of personals that we can take as entrepreneurs who have achieved their targets and have conquered the world. Among the world’s best entrepreneurs Bill Gates holds a noble title. Some critics may see him as a modern day robber but to the majority of the world he is a great inventor, a great programmer, and an ambitious businessmen.
Case Study – Bill and Melinda Gates 1. What do you think Bill and Melinda Gate’s personality traits are for each of the Big Five dimensions? Compare the two. The purpose of big five is to categorize the personality traits into different dimensions which can help us to understand better how people behave to others and how react in their life.
The leadership style of Mukesh Ambani is very distinctive. He is very different to how a Steve jobs or Michael Dell would function. Mukesh Ambani doesn’t restrict himself to the traditional boundaries of monocratic, transformational and situational leaderships among others. His own unique methods are what make for the Mukesh Ambani leadership style.