segment offers the same service as Obopay in Obopay’s primary market of India. The analysis presented in this paper is as of May 2012. Part I: Company Background History of Obopay Obopay is one of the first companies to provide mobile payment solutions, integrating mobile technology with money services. The concept behind Obopay and the mobile wallet came to Carol Realini while traveling to Africa where she saw how many people despite not having access to basic banking services did own mobile phones
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each day to attract new and existing customers. The Allstate Corporation was founded in 1931 and became publically traded in 1993. They’re the third largest auto insurer in the United States. The company has over 70,000 employees and provides service to approximately 16 million households. 57 percent of their employees are women and 32 percent are from minority groups. 40 percent of the managers are women and 24 percent are from one of five minority groups as well. At the end of
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brand. This marred the image of Apple and confused its identity; ultimately making Apple lose their competitive advantage. Apple went from a unique, rebellious, and innovative company to just another mass-producing computer company with inferior technology. Once Steve Jobs returned, after all of the chaos, they went back to their roots of being an innovative company focused on creating aesthetic, premium personal technological devices. This revitalized the company and with innovations such as
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It is a rapidly developing and excellent promising technology. Cloud computing is the product of the combination of grid computing, distributed computing, parallel computing, and ubiquitous computing. Cloud Computing model has enabled IT organizations to serve the users globally. It gives the services like Platform as a Service, Software as a Service and Infrastructure as a Service without users being much aware of the details in which the services are provided. History: The origin of the term
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marketing, selling, delivering, servicing, and paying for products and services transacted on internetworked, global marketplaces of customers, with the support of a worldwide network of business partners. Electronic Commerce can be defined in several ways: 1. From a communication perspective, e-commerce is the ability to deliver products, services, information, or payments via networks such as the Internet and the World Wide Web. 2. From an interface perspective, e-commerce involves various information
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business and technology strategies into one of twelve defined alignment perspectives using a web-based model. The authors emphasise that the first concept of strategic alignment remains actual and usable to corporate executives looking to achieve alignment of their business and technology strategies. This model is presented as a combination between four quadrants, which one constituted by three components and it’s divided into two distinct areas: business and information technology (IT). Each area
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21st Bled eConference eCollaboration: Overcoming Boundaries through Multi-Channel Interaction June 15 - 18, 2008; Bled, Slovenia Value Creation in B2B E-Markets of China: A Practical Perspective Jing Zhao a, , Shan Wang b and Wilfred V Huang c a Center for International Cooperation in E-Business, College of Management China University of Geosciences, Wuhan 430074, P.R.China zhao5563@gmail.com b Department of Management Science, School of Business, Renmin University, 59 Zhong Guan Cun
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move along with time. Though libraries are still very much about loaning out books and providing information, with the digital age in full swing it is done in a different way. Times have changed and with that so have the library. With new technologies emerging, are libraries destined to fade into oblivion? Or will they been seen as more relevant than ever? When asked what comes to mind when you hear the term ‘library’, many respond ‘books’. I defiantly did. Sure, many books can be found ranging
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students for labor markets. It has become an innovative phenomenon in human resources development and training in Nigeria. The library profession, like other professions, is dynamic. This dynamism is in response to Information and Communication Technology (ICT). With the introduction of ICT into the field of library and information science (LIS), it has become imperative that library and information science practitioners possess the skill needed to function effectively in an ICT environment. Lawal
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Carolyn Jackson International Business March 11 2013 Current Economic Status of China The Google definition of an economy is the wealth and resources of a country in terms of the production and consumption of goods and services. When looking at China from an outsider’s perspective the first three words that come to mind are innovative, growth, and mass-production. This is because over the last thirty years, Chinese economic growth in Gross Domestic Profit (GDP) has been a steady 8 to 10 percent making
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