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UNIVERSAL BUSINESS SCHOOL

EDM Assignment

10 Web Based Business

Models Submitted by:

Ronak Nitin Modi

MBA3-1355

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10 Different Web Based Business Models

1 Amazon.com

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Amazon.com, is an American international electronic commerce

company with headquarters in Seattle, Washington, United States. It is

the world's largest online retailer.Amazon.com started

selling DVDs, VHSs, CDs, video and MP3 downloads/streaming, softwa

re, video games ,electronics, apparel, furniture, food, toys, and jewelry.

The company also produces consumer electronics—notably the Amazon

Kindle e-book reader and the Fire tablet—and is a major provider

of cloud computing services.

Business Model of Amazon

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2) Facebook.com

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Facebook was launched by Mark Zukerberg to help Internet users stay

connected with their friends, families, and colleagues. Facebook

provides a number of products, free of charge, to its users: Timeline,

News Feed, Photos and Videos, Messages (Email, Chat, and Text

Messaging), Groups, Lists, Events, Places, Subscribe, Ticker,

Notifications, and Facebook Pages, 100 billion friendships, 250 million

photos uploaded every day and 2.7 billion Likes and Comments per day.

Its revenue on 2013 was US$7.872 billion.

In 2012, Facebook was valued at $104 billion, and by January 2014 its

market capitalization had risen to over $134 billion. At the end of

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January 2014, 1.23 billion users were active on the website every month,

while on December 31, 2013, 945 million of this total was identified by

the company as mobile users. The company celebrated its tenth

anniversary in the week of February 3, 2014. Facebook's annual profit

for 2013 was US$1.5 billion.

Business Model of Facebook

3. Google.com

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Google is an American multinational corporation specializing in

Internet-related services and products. These include search, cloud

computing, software, and online advertising technologies. Most of

its profits are derived From Ad Words. Google was founded by

Larry Page and Sergey Brin while they were Ph.D. students at

Stanford University.

The corporation has been estimated to run more than one million

servers in data centers around the world and to process over one

billion search requests and about 24 petabytes of user-generated

data each day. In December 2013 Alexa listed google.com as the

most visited website in the world. Numerous Google sites in other

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languages figure in the top one hundred, as do several other

Google-owned sites such as YouTube and Blogger.

Business model of Google

4. Crossword.in

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Crossword Bookstores Ltd. is a chain of bookstores in India based

in Mumbai. Crossword has stores

in Mumbai, Delhi, Bengaluru, Bhopal, Cochin, Coimbatore,Chennai, Ga

ndhinagar, Indore, Kota, Lucknow, Nagpur, Raipur, Siliguri, Hyderabad,

Jaipur, Kolkata, Nagpur, Thane, Udaipur, Nashik, Vadodara, Vapi, Vija

yawada, Pune and Ahmedabad. Crossword is a wholly owned subsidiary of Shopper's Stop Ltd.

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Advertising Age magazine named Crossword one of the Marketing

Superstars for 1994. The Bookseller has described it as "being on the

cutting edge of retailing" in India

Business model of Crossword

5. LinkedIn.com

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LinkedIn is a business-oriented Social networking service. Founded in December 2002 and launched on May 5, 2003, it is mainly used for professional networking. In 2006, LinkedIn increased to 20 million viewers. As of June 2013, LinkedIn reports more than 259 million acquired users in more than 200 countries and territories. In June 2011, LinkedIn had 33.9 million unique visitors, up 63 percent from a year earlier and surpassing MySpace. LinkedIn filed for an initial public offering in January 2011 and traded its first shares on May 19, 2011, under the NYSE symbol "LNKD". By December 2010, the company was valued at $1.575 billion in private market. One purpose of the sites is to allow registered users to maintain a list of contact details of people with whom they have some level of relationship, called Connections. Users can invite anyone (whether a site user or not) to become a connection. However, if the invitee selects "I don't know" or "Spam", this counts against the inviter. If the inviter gets too many of such responses, the account may be restricted or closed. LinkedIn also supports the formation of interest groups, and as of March 29, 2012 there are 1,248,019 such groups whose membership varies from 1 to 744,662.

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Business Model of LinkedIn

6. Flipkart.com

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Flipkart is an Indian e-commerce company founded in 2007, by

Sachin and Binny Bansal and headquartered in Bangalore, Karnataka.

It is considered as the e-commerce company that made online

shopping popular in India. According to Alexa Internet, Flipkart's

website is one of the top 10 Indian websites.Flipkart has launched its

own product range under the name "DigiFlip", offering camera bags,

pen-drives, headphones, computer accessories, etc

Flipkart acquired the websites Mime360.com and

Chakpak.com. Later, in February 2012, the company revealed its new

Flyte Digital Music Store. Flyte, a legal music download service in

the vein of iTunes and Amazon.com, offered DRM-free MP3

downloads. But it was shut down on 17 June 2013 as paid song

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downloads did not get popular in India due to the advent of free

music streaming sites.

Business Model of Flipkart

7. Wordpress.com

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WordPress is a free and open source blogging tool and a content

management system(CMS) based on PHP and MySQL, which runs on

a web hosting service. Features include a plug-in architecture and a

template system. WordPress is used by more than 18.9% of the top 10

million websites as of August 2013.[5]

WordPress is the most popular

blogging system in use on the Web,[6]

at more than 60 million websites.

[7]

It was first released on May 27, 2003, by its founders, Matt Mullenweg

and Mike Little, as a fork of b2 /cafelog. As of February 19, 2014,

version 3.8 had been downloaded more than 20 million times. The

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license under which WordPress software is released is the GPLv2 (or later) from the Free Software Foundation.

Business Model of Wordpress

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8. Twitter.com

Twitter is an online social networking and micro blogging service

that enables users to send and read short 140-character text

messages, called "tweets". Registered users can read and post

tweets, but unregistered users can only read them. Users access

Twitter through the website interface, SMS, or mobile device app.

Twitter Inc. is based in San Francisco and has offices in New York

City, Boston, San Antonio and Detroit.

Twitter was created in March 2006 by Jack Dorsey, Evan

Williams, Biz Stone and Noah Glass and by July 2006, the site was

launched. The service rapidly gained worldwide popularity, with

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500 million registered users in 2012, who posted 340 million

tweets per day. The service also handled 1.6 billion search queries

per day. In 2013 Twitter was one of the ten most-visited websites,

and has been described as "the SMS of the Internet."

Business Model of Twitter

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10. PayPal.com

PayPal is an international e-commerce business allowing payments and

money transfers to be made through the Internet. Online money

transfers serve as electronic alternatives to paying with traditional paper

methods, such as checks and money orders. It is subject to the US

economic sanction list, and subject to other rules and interventions required by US laws or government.

PayPal is an acquirer, performing payment processing for online

vendors, auction sites, and other commercial users, for which it charges

a fee. The fee depends on what currency or payments the seller is

using.[4]

In addition, eBay purchases made by credit card through PayPal may incur extra fees if the buyer and seller use different currencies.

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Business Model of PayPal

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10. Jabong.com

Jabong.com is an Indian fashion and lifestyle e-commerce portal. It

retails apparel, footwear, accessories, beauty products, fragrances, home

accessories and other fashion and lifestyle products. The company is

headquartered in Gurgaon, NCR. The site started operations in January

2012. It was co-founded by Arun Chandra Mohan, Praveen Sinha, Manu

Jain, & Mukul Bafana.The managing officers are Arun Chandra Mohan

and Praveen Sinha. In March 2013, Jabong was shipping 6000-7000

orders a day. In March 2013, the annual revenues of Jabong was

estimated to be 100-150 MN USD.During September 2013 Jabong was

shipping 14,000 orders on a daily basis out of which 60% were from

small towns. Jabong was one of the most visited e-commerce sites

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during the Great Online Shopping Festival 2013. Company

representatives claimed that its revenues increased five to six times

compared to a usual day, and that Jabong set a record for sale in the

male fashion category.

Business Model of Jabong