Alibaba Case Study Essay

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Question 1 (a)
Why Jim thinks that in year 2020, in china they will do more E-commerce business compare to any other countries around the globe?
There are 302 million online shoppers in china and 231 million of them shop in Alibaba. In year 2020 in china there will be twice as many E-Commerce customers as there are Americans. In 2013 Alibaba delivered 70% of packages around china which is around 5 billion packages. Alibaba sees that they need to make an investment in China logistics the first stage of the investment will be 16 billion dollars and the second stage with 32 billion dollar. Jim believes by 2024 that we will see China will be delivering 200 million E-commerce packages every single day.

Question 1 (b)
Alibaba has the most online customer nearing in total about 231 million. In your opinion what may cause this phenomena?

Question 1 (c)
How does Alibaba help China’s economy?
Alibaba is at its very essence a Chinese company, run by a Chinese management team, with Chinese customers, and the overwhelming majority of its revenue coming from business in China. Alibaba is the largest Chinese e-commerce company. In …show more content…

Some hackers hack E-commerce sites for glory and others hack it in order to test their skills. However at the end of the day those who hack E-Commerce sites mostly do it for the money.
So how do these hackers actually make money. Well these hackers hack into the E-commerce site and steal all of the customer’s credit card data. Given that the hackers now have access to the server, they are able to scrape the credit card data used whenever a customer makes a purchase. These hackers are also cable of then reselling your credit cards as well as your personal information such as your name, age, address, passport number, etc. through black markets.
During our research we have found out that hackers who hack into E-commerce websites can make up to 80,000 dollars per

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