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This article examined financial implications of the operations of this E-commerce retailer. According to the article, Amazon actually recorded record third quarter profits from all of their operations.
Nonetheless, Amazon attributes their third quarter success to their Super Saver free shipping campaign where you can get free shipping for orders over $25.
According to the CEO of Amazon, they plan on leaving this Super Saver Shipping campaign into effect at least through the holiday season.
Even though Amazon has recorded record third quarter profits, they are concerned about the long-term implications of this Super Saver Initiative.
As CEO Jeff Bezos states, "It is very expensive."
Consequently, he offers no assurance that this Super Saver campaign will become permanent. However, as long as they are recording record earning profits for a quarter, I would expect them to keep this campaign in operation.
According to the article, Congress actually passed an Internet Tax Freedom Act that allowed the Internet to be a tax free environment for three years. This Tax Freedom Act was enacted in October of 1998.
However, as of the writing of this article, which was published in January of 2002, Congress did not pass legislation to reenact the Tax Freedom Act. As a result, the Internet can now be subject to taxation.
With the Internet, taxation can be quite complex.
In order to alleviate some of the complexity with Internet taxation, the article mentioned the use of a legal test called a nexus. According to the article, a nexus is established when a company has significant physical assets in a particular location.
In addition, the article states that if a company maintains a nexus in a state, then it is obligated to collect sales tax from residents of that particular state.
Also, according to the article, the Internet poses a challenge to the nexus test, because of the difficulty of defining the standards and regulations for which Internet purchases should be taxed.
Nonetheless, the primary purpose of the three year Internet Tax Freedom Act was to work out the kinks in the way Internet purchases are taxed.
The methods of payment for B2B E-commerce and how to improve them were specifically looked at within this article.
Nonetheless, according to the article, there are a limited number of ways to make payments electronically with B2B e-commerce. These methods of payment are limited to federal wire, automated clearinghouse, and purchasing card.
Nonetheless, as the article mentions, these methods of payment are limited because they do not convey necessary information such as invoice number and which account to credit a payment to.
In the article, Electronic Invoicing and Bill Presentation (EIBP) technology was introduced.
This system improves upon the abilities of Electronic Payment Systems for B2B transactions.
With an EIBP system in place, firms are able to automate accounting functions and payment processing systems. The system also allows for faster payment of invoices as well.
Nonetheless, according to the article, in order to see EIBP systems integrated more, companies will need to decide on the most popular vendor and try to make their use of technology more compatible with other companies.
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Even though these pop-ads are generally annoying, the article gives Web surfers a solution to this problem.
Nonetheless, the article introduces us to the concept of Pop-Up Killing (PUK) software.
Although we are introduced to this new type of software in this article, it is not an entirely new concept. For example, there are a broad range of pop-up killing software from different software companies such as Panicware, Ecom Software, and Sureshot.
Even though such companies offer different variations of this type of software, glitches can occur when connecting this software to third-party software that does not have vendor support.
In addition, the article points out that some makers of this pop-up killing software can include spyware, which can track users' Web browsing habbits.
However, many of the latest editions of browsers such as MSN are becoming equipped with the ability to block out pop-up ads altogether. Thus, installing the newest version of the latest browser seems to be the best solution to getting rid of those annoying pop-up ads.
Many Internet Service Providers (ISPs) are now providing broadband technology as a low cost alternative to cable and DSL (digital subscriber line) Internet. Yahoo and MSN are the latest to provide broadband Internet services.
However, according to the article, America Online (AOL) has yet to come up with a current broadband platform to provide to its subscriber base of over 35 million Internet users.
Thus, according to the article, AOL could stand to lose many of their valued customers due to a lack of implementing their own broadband Internet service.
In addition to needing to update their Internet services, the article also mentions that AOL has had financial difficulties with advertising revenues as well.
Nonetheless, adding a broadband Internet service for AOL cannot come fast enough if they are to succeed in the ISP market.
Some of these things include properly closing table tags and using HTML editors that are universal with the three main browsers.
In discussing compatibility with the three main browsers, the article mentions Microsoft Internet Explorer, Netscape, and Opera.
In addition, the article also discusses the concept of using a good title for your Web page because it allows for search engine optimization.
Also, the article mentions that some browsers are more forgiving of mistakes than other ones. For example, the author mentions that Explorer is generally more forgiving than Opera and Netscape, when it comes to HTML errors.
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