Internet Case Studies Samples That Help You Write Better, Faster & with Gusto

1. Using your own words, explain how third-party cookies are created. In one’s understanding, third-party cookies are created through visiting a site with multiple sources. When a user has clicked the URL of the site with other sources, some of the sources allegedly contain instructions to acknowledge accepting their cookie. As emphasized, third-party cookies only reveal IP addresses, in lieu of identifying name or value.
2. Suppose you are an ad-serving company, and you maintain a log of cookie data for ads you serve to Web pages for a particular vendor (say Amazon).
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Online businesses have slowly replaced the brick and mortar system where the customers must make physical appearances to buy the desired products. Theorganicgrocer.com is an example of an online business dealing with online sales of organic fruits and vegetables. The company has established a business model that incorporates reliability, timeliness, dependability, quality and fair price as their core strategy of achieving success. This slogan was established after a through market research to identify various customer needs as well as the competitive analysis which has enabled the company to major in the delivery of organic food.

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Introduction

Organizations conduct monthly, quarter or annual measures on the financial status in order to determine the path taken in terms of sales and profits. Walmart, one of the world’s best performing companies, suffers from the stock market fluctuation. The financial report released by Walmart in 2015 shows that the company has experienced 6 quarters without any significant growth. The company continues to invest in key business areas such as e-commerce and mobile sector in order to achieve more business improvement opportunities (McDaniel, 2014). Positive growth was experienced by Walmart competitors during the same period leading to the following Continue reading...

Darts is a sporting goods company that has most of its outlets in the western states. The company computers are connected to each other via network. A network has 273 computers and it consists of the following hardware systems.
8 Windows Server 2003 R2 Servers
2 Linux Servers running Red Hat Linux Enterprise
20 computers running MAC OS X version 10.4 Tiger
32 computers with Windows XP installed
126 computers with Windows Vista installed
95 computers with Windows 7 installed
With advancements in the growth of the company, the network requires upgrading and modifications. Therefore, the company is focusing Continue reading...

EXECUTIVE SUMMARY

Horovitz lays out her basic assumption about current marketing strategies for kids: kids drive household expenditure and are hence ideal targets. Whereas marketing in old days was confined to TV ads and cartoon show, current marketing strategies are more technologically savvy and are less controlled by parents.
Luring kids into virtual money to buy stuff for online toys, marketers place attractive online ads which, when clicked, drive revenue for companies such as Ganz. Although parents attempt to control online content by using ad-blocker applications, marketers embed video ads which avoid blockage.
Increasingly disappointed parents contact advocacy and consumer groups Continue reading...

Executive summary

Digital forensics is a significant process that is needed in analyzing a crime that involves digital equipment. It is a field which has been developing with the way technology has been developing. It is important to understand the issues that has attracted research in the recent past. Digital forensics requires that a lot if human understanding and technological alignment in order to get what is happening with the case that has been stated. This paper will focus on the methodology of gathering digital evidence and carrying out investigations regarding a case. It will focus mainly on the procedures to Continue reading...

International Business

Abstract
This paper presents the problem that Target Company Faced in Canada. Target Company Canada is a subsidiary of the Target Corporation that is based in USA. The company operates in the industry of department store, and it is being liquidated currently. Many Canadians loved shopping at Target whenever they visited USA and before the Company launched its operations in Canada. The prices in the company's Canadian stores were higher than those in the American stores. Most of the consumers in Canada were used to shop in different rates, and the company did not convince the Canadian customers to Continue reading...

Executive Summary

Erectile dysfunction, also called ED, is a common condition among men, especially those in their advanced age. However, ED affects younger men too, but due to the social stigma and embarrassment attached with the condition, younger men flinch from seeking treatment lest their condition becomes known to all. This stands a major barrier to the market expansion of ED medications. Of late, Viagra has the maximum market share in the ED market with Cialis following close second. If Cialis adopts a marketing campaign more focused on educating general public about ED, then it might help people break out of Continue reading...

Introduction:

The Structured Query Language (SQL) is a text based database manipulation language used when interacting with a database server. SQL commands such as CREATE, INSERT, UPDATE, RETRIEVE, and DELETE are used by programmers and database administrators to manipulate databases in database servers (EC-Council, 2010).
SQL injection refers to a technique used to take advantage of vulnerabilities introduced by non-validated input. These vulnerabilities allow attackers to insert SQL commands through the web application forms, and the commands are executed on a back-end database. Programmers use sequentially executed SQL commands with parameters supplied by the web client thus making it easy Continue reading...

Introduction

Google is an international company providing internet services and products. The company is ranked top among the leading internet searches service provider. Founded by Larry Page and Sergey Brin in 1996, the company has grown to become the most successful information and technology company (Google. 2015). The company attributes its success to utilization of strategic competencies and innovation that keep it ahead of its competitors. However, the company faces some challenges such as maintaining user privacy of its internet services, threats of cyber attacks, and sustaining relevance of its android, operating system. This paper is interested in conducting an Continue reading...

Business

Section
Strategic Action for Royal Caribbean Cruise Line
A critical strategic issue facing the Royal Caribbean Cruise Line is to actively adopt environmentally friendly strategies.
What actions can the Royal Caribbean Cruise Line in order to actively adopt environmentally friendly strategies while at the same time achieving profit goals?

Stop dumping sewage into the oceans, ports and seas of the world using on-ship waste water treatment.

The strategic objective of the research project is to learn if Royal Caribbean Cruise Line can adopt an environmentally friendly way to discharge polluted water from the hull.

The financial objectives are to review the company’s annual report and find an affordable environmentally friendly strategy.

The strategic objective is to evaluate the opportunities the Royal Caribbean Cruise Line can adopt in order to meet environmental regulations on Continue reading...

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Identification of Key Issues/problems or Opportunities

Analyzing the given case scenario, it seems that Fotolia is facing a series of issues/problems while at the same time the company is exposed to a number of potential opportunities. According to Grant and McCutcheon (Case study), although the company implemented an expensive advertising campaign through a professional design magazine, it failed to generate adequate user responses. In the absence of sophisticated image recognition and filtering software, it involved huge costs and considerable manual effort in removing objectionable content from the image database for the non-designer business users (4). It was really a difficult task for Continue reading...

Individual Case 2: Bank of America

Introduction 3
Industry Analysis 3
Porter Five Forces Analysis of the Banking Industry 4
Competitive Rivalry 4
New Entrants 5
Bargaining Power of Suppliers 6
Bargaining Power of the Buyers 7
Threat of Substitutes 7
Competitive Strategies 8
SWOT Matrix 8
Strengths 9
Weaknesses 9
Opportunities 9
Threats 10
Conclusion 10

References 11

Introduction
The Bank of America is a large bank holding company that within the recent years has been ascending within the banking industry with a top position. As such, the organization has been steadfast towards the provision of diverse financial services that encompass commercial, wholesale banking, wealth management, Continue reading...

Introduction

The Farmer’s Market was a complex website that provided extensive payment options, superior privacy and an exhaustive array of exotic produce. The website itself was untraceable to its originating IP address. It was masked by “The onion router”; an application that hides the actual IP address of a certain computer. Business was booming and the clientele was expanding; in fact it they even added a DEA agent to their list of valued customers. This was the beginning of the end for the equivalent of Narcotic Amazon for good. On 16th April 2012, the DEA aided by local and Continue reading...

TOURISM VICTORIA 2

Problem Statement
Victoria is a lovely island off the Pacific, off the western coast of Canada. Tourism is not reaching its full potential. Despite Victoria’s web site and marketing, tourism is down during the 2006 to 2010 period. Visitors were down from 3.56 million to 3.08 million. Visitor spending was down from $1.19 billion to $.97 billion. In an analysis completed for Tourism Victoria, it is estimated that Victoria would lose 5% in revenue each year from 2009 through 2014 (Grant Thorton). With tourism growing world wide, Victoria is in trouble. There number of visitors and revenue should Continue reading...

Law of Obligations

In the Patels’ case, just like with any other car accident remedies for damages would be accessed through the premise of negligence, meaning whether the driver was at fault. There are four basic elements to any claim of negligence, whether it be in a car accident or not. These are duty, breach, causation and damages. Therefore, let us examine the facts of the Patel case and establish if they have a case to sue for relief under negligence law. It would appear at face value they do.
Although the state is listed where this accident occurred and that would Continue reading...

Ethical Issues in the Youth Using Social Media and Online Chat Rooms

Introduction
In today’s world people especially the youth are able to communicate and express themselves better, a factor that has been enabled by the rise of social media and the internet. The internet is used even by the other generations for various purposes such as buying and selling products, social networking and downloading movies and music. The most popular use of the internet among the teens is the social networking. In a study carried out by Pew Research Centre (2015), about 95% of teens aged between 12 and 17 years use the internet. Further, eight out of ten Continue reading...

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Background

In, 2002, Gary McKinnon, a Scottish business analyst and self-made hacker, perpetrated one of the greatest, or most infamous hacking incidents in the history of cybercrime. He targeted both NASA and the United States military forces, electronically burgling their computer systems and top secret files. What is perhaps most impressive about this crime is that Gary McKinnon acted alone. Using the hackername “Solo,” McKinnon managed to infiltrate 97 government computers, trying to access files on a UFO cover-up, or Free Energy Suppression. Unfortunately in doing so he created a much larger problem. Continue reading...

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Introduction

The introduction of different kinds of gadgets demand being ‘online’ in order to maximize its function as well as the application installed within it. Social media networks such as Facebook , Twitter and Instagram force a gadget-hooked individual to remain connected on the Internet to get live feeds on what is happening among their networks. This behavior is not only prevalent within the four corners of the home of a gadget-hooked person but also carried to schools, offices and various public places. Coffee shops install Wi-Fi to further attract customers to avail of Continue reading...

The health care needs of residents in Eastern Idaho have been provided since 1905 by Portneuf Medical Center, which is an acute care facility. The employed doctors and the diverse outpatient clinics associated with the hospital embody the Medical Practice Division at Portneuf Medical Center. The Portneuf Health Care Foundation, LHP Hospital Group and certain physician members of the medical staff have owned Portneuf Medical Center since 2009 and operated as a joint venture (Portneuf Medical Center, par 1). The Hospital offers its patients various online services. For instance, it offers online billing services where one can view and Continue reading...

Application Engineering

Compare and contrast Traditional Structure Methodologies and Traditional Object Oriented Methodologies
All software applications, whether large or small have some kind of methodology upon which they are developed from. A methodology is a way of doing things in a systematically. A methodology describes a repeated process of doing things and spans the easiest process of software development to complex processes of managing installed applications. A methodology specifies the expectations as well as the recommendations or techniques for resource planning, scheduling and others basing on the needs of a project. Over the years, software development methodologies have come to existence. Continue reading...

Valuation of a Public Company: Nike Inc.

About the company
Nike Inc. is an American multinational organization that designs and manufactures sports footwear, apparel and accessories. The company was originally founded as Blue Ribbon Sports in 1961 when it started its operations through sales on distribution basis for a Japanese footwear company, Onitsuka Tiger. However, the founders, Phillip Knight and Bill Bowerman, soon started their own company in 1971, while its brand logo, ‘’Just Do It’’ was patented in 1974. At present, the company has the largest market share in sports footwear industry, where it revenue exceeds $28 Billion. As of 2014, the brand value of Continue reading...

The key issues in the case include low level of borrowed funds, cash and cash equivalents and reduction in the rate of sales growth. Recommendations on the increase of borrowed funds examine a recapitalization strategy, in which it lends equal to $1 billion to repurchase its shares. Recommendations concerning increase in cash and cash equivalents consider the sale of unused or unwanted objects and reserves for an amount of $456.65 Mio. Recommendations on the increase of sales growth rate to at least 4.4%, including the improvement of advertising campaign and application of the strategy of mergers and acquisitions.

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The Data that will be used for the entire analysis is as follows

Operating Income = $ 5 Million
Depreciation Expense = $ 1 Million
Interest Expense = $ 1 Million
Corporate Tax Rate = 40%

Net Income of Rattner Robotics is as follows

Operating Income $ 5 Million
Less: Interest Expense $ 1 Million
Net Income before Tax = $ 4 Million
Tax 40% = $ 1.6 Million
Net Income after Tax = $ 2.4 Million

Net Operating Working Capital (NOWC) of Rattner Robotics is as follows

NOWC = Current Assets – Account Payable
= $ 3.4 Million
NOWC = $ 3.4 Million
Assume that all the current assets and current liabilities are operating, and then the net working capital of the company will be the same like Net Operating Working Capital.
= Current Assets + Net Income - liabilities
= $ 3 million

The Free cash flow (FCF) of the company is as follows

FCF = EBIT (1-Tax Rate) + Depreciation – Change in Working Capital – Capital Expenditure
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Analysis of the Industry and Competitors

In the course of the world’s financial crisis of 2007 – 2008 which is known to have started in the United States owing to the house-mortgage credit bubble burst, practically all the industries have been hurt. The automobile manufacturing industry was not an exception, especially a sports cars industry. Eventually, in order to survive on the automobile market, Porsche aimed all its forces at inventing a high-efficient gasoline engine.
Then, Audi, Bentley and Bugatti were purchased by VW. Jaguar, Aston Martin and Fiat have also been the subject of those sell-buy of equities trends (Boatcallie, Chase, Salehi, Skrisovsky and Continue reading...

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Fundamentals of PKI

The use of technology and its application to business is evolving, thus, it is critical that the information running through the networks gets protected and secured. One secure way of guaranteeing its protection is through the implementation of public key infrastructure (PKI). PKI is a collection of procedures and policies governing the people, hardware and software to bring trust and protection to electronic business transactions via digital certificates.
A PKI has four key elements. These include the certificate authority, certificate store, registration authority and certificate database. A certificate authority, also known a Continue reading...

A 63 old women was brought to the emergency unit, late night. Her partner was concerned that she is acting crazy. The patient has complained headache during the day time and was ill. She awakened at late night and was confused, repeating strange words that made no sense. No history of smoking, alcohol or illicit drug use noticed in the patient. The patient had no recent surgeries, or drug allergies.
On physical examination, pulse 106, BP-150/- respiration 19/minute and oxygen saturation 97% on room air. Temperature was 38.3C. The patient did not cooperate for physical examination and reacted briskly Continue reading...

99 Cents Store

The 99 Cents Store is a retailer that offers discounts for its customers. The company has established a chain of retail stores across the United States. As of 2006, the 99 Cents Store operated 232 retail stores in different states. The majority of the company’s stores are located in California. 99 Cents Store meets the demand of its customers by working with various brands to offer a wide variety of products from beauty to health, and hardware materials to clothing, among others. The company works with major trusted brands including Johnson & Johnson, Unilever, and Colgate. Continue reading...

Marketing Objectives: for Coffee maker I.1- Profit

In 2014, Keurig had a Gross Profit of $1,815,860, or 38.6% of net sales, as compared to $1,619.4 million, or 37.2% of net sales, in fiscal 2013 (2). This growth was attributed to an increase of basis points due to favorable green coffee costs, logistics productivity, and sales shift in sales mix between Keurig brewers and portion packs. This year, Keurig aims to maintain a positive, steady growth each quarter, and increase the profit margin by 1% every quarter. Keurig will also look into expanding internationally. It will first focus on meeting the increased demand from Continue reading...

Information Management and Organizational Performance

Changing times have made apparent that every company is a technology company today. It is essential that every business understands the value of the enormous amounts of information available in its surroundings, while also knowing that unless properly organized and analyzed such information is worthless to the organization. The organization’s IT infrastructure, thus, has the crucial role of converting such information into knowledge specific to the company as knowledge is rapidly becoming the most important factor of production, next to labor, land, and capital. Knowledge Management, thus, affects organizational performance by influencing the organization’s strategy, culture, and Continue reading...

Dove is a recognized brand of soap manufactured by Unilever (Unilever.com, 2015). The brand’s primary mission is to help women realize their beauty potential by getting them involved with products that offer real care (Unilever.com, 2015). Dove believes that proper care is the secret behind beauty. Thus, Dove aims to bring products that enhance the hair and skin condition and offer a pleasurable care experience (Unilever.com, 2015). Since the inception of the product brand, Dove has placed high regards to women, regardless of the ethnicity and race. Dove believes that no woman must feel left out from the Continue reading...

The Ratio Analysis of Beiersdorf AG financials shows obvious company’s strengths and weaknesses. The company is in good position in terms of liquidity and inventory turnover. At the same time, the company’s profitability and return on investment are not so good. Beiersdorf AG has the lowest Return on Net Sales ratio among leading competitors and the lowest net profit. In order to improve profitability, the company should compare its profit margins by product to the industry average and consider starting new high margin products.
Current ratio was used in order to evaluate Beiersdorf AG liquidity. This ratio Continue reading...

Berkshire Hathaway

Organizational Ownership
Depending on the organizational ownership, companies may be divided in the following types:
1) sole proprietorship (the given type of ownership rests on the property- and assets-related decisions of the sole owner);
2) partnership (composed of a few owners – partners of the organization, whose number may amount from a few persons to dozens of partners. Partnership in its turn is divided into several types: general partnership, limited partnership, and limited liability partnership. From the legal perspectives, in order to set up a partnership, future partners enter into the partnership agreement stipulating their rights and liabilities regarding participation Continue reading...

Selection at Hyatt Hotels Corporation

Section 1: Executive Summary
For a team writing project on Strategic Human Resource Initiatives we are picking the Hyatt Hotel Corporation, and in particular this essay is focused on their SELECTION process and how to change the current one and/or introduce new practices to guarantee the corporation can keep its leading role among the current global hotel brands. In particular the new designed selection process must contribute to three major goals of the Hyatt Hotel Corporation, they want to enhance their revenues, they want to continue their expansion to the BRIC countries (Brazil – Russia – India – China) and they want Continue reading...

Introduction

Gazelle is an online re-commerce company that is involved in receiving used products from the customers and gives them an appropriate price. After buying the used products they are then sold to the appropriate buyers by means of eBay. So, the company is more focused on providing innovation on the buying end rather than the selling end. The selling of used products is performed by eBay and the inventory life is estimated to be 11 days. Buyers of products from Gazelle have the opportunity to return in 30 days with money back guarantee and almost free shipping. The company Continue reading...

International Business

Introduction
Globalization is driving force which is doing an exceptional job to promote the productivity as well as the level of efficiency of an enterprise (Amireh and Majaj, 2000). At one place globalization increases the level of competition among the companies, but it also manages the effectiveness and well-being of the entity at the highest level. One of the best strategies that currently associated with the term of Globalization is Internationalization in which an organization will start to move its physical location from one place to another place. Internationalization strategy is also known or referred as Going Global Strategy Continue reading...

“ ’It’s possible that two children died so that you could have that mobile phone,’ says Jean-Bertin, a 34-year-old Congolese activist who wants to end the “absolute silence” around the crimes committed in his country to exploit strategic raw materials like coltan.” (Benitez, 2012) The need for coltan to mass produce electronics has resulted in heinous living conditions for millions of Africans. The high demand for this raw material has resulted in terrible conflicts and death. Not only has the increase in the production of electronics resulted in inhumane treatment of Africans, it has also severely hurt the environment. Continue reading...

Introduction

A franchise involves the agreement of two parties, the franchisors and the franchisees, to sell and purchase the business rights and standards, and to operate like the original business. The article focuses of the “Diet Center,” franchise and its net investment requirements. It focuses on the initial fees, the royalty fees and the operation methods required by the business. The franchise focuses on the techniques of healthy weight loss by selling products that help with losing weight. It also offers techniques of losing weight by the use of four unique programs that are effective in losing weight . The profit Continue reading...

Introduction

Widget Wonders require wireless internet connection for access of company resources by sales department staff. Software applications such as word processors, spreadsheet and internet will be required by manufacturing department. The graphics and computer aided design (CAD) software are also needed by research and development department while MIS department will require extra processor and memory to support administrative tasks. Other requirements include the most appropriate operating system that can support all the departments and system security software.

Microsoft office software will be needed to provide word processing, excel spreadsheet for manufacturing department. Microsoft office will also provide ms outlook Continue reading...

Management Insights on Alibada Group

Many multibusiness companies exist as a sum of their respective parts and do not coexist in such a way as to create a corporate advantage (Collis & Montgomery, 1998) But a “Great corporate strategy begins with a vision of how a company’s resources will differentiate it from competitors across multiple business” (Collis & Montgomery). The Alibada Group has created a corporate advantage by using the subsidiaries in order to help each its operate effectively, working together in order to grow exponentially each other’s success. It is clear to see how the respective businesses under one roll in the Alibada Continue reading...