Facebook with Money: The Rise of Online Brokerage Platforms and Vulnerable Groups

MISQ Archivist Advertising Versus Brokerage Model for Online Trading Platforms

The two leading online consumer-to-consumer platforms use very different revenue models: eBay.com in the United States uses a brokerage model in which sellers pay eBay on a transaction basis, whereas Taobao.com in China uses an advertising model in which sellers can use the basic platform service for free and pay Taobao for advertising services to increase their exposure. This paper studies how...

Advertising Versus Brokerage Model for Online Trading Platforms

Lemma 2. Let c < c' and k < k'. Under the advertising model, if a buyer with cost c' participates in the platform, the buyer with cost c also participates in the platform. If a seller with cost k' participates in the platform, the seller with cost k also participates in the platform. Moreover, if the seller with k' participates in the advertising service, the seller with k also participates in ...

the evaluation of language related engagment and task related engagment with the purpose of investigating the effect of metatalk and task typology

abstract while task-based instruction is considered as the most effective way to learn a language in the related literature, it is oversimplified on various grounds. different variables may affect how students are engaged with not only the language but also with the task itself. the present study was conducted to investigate language and task related engagement on the basis of the task typolog...

azerbaijans political development after the collapse of soviet union and implication on relation with the islamic republic of iran

در فصل اول این پایاین نامه در خصوص تاریخ کشور اذربایجان قبل و بعد از جدایی این کشور از ایران مورد بررسی قرار گرفته است ودر فصل دوم تحولات سیاسی این کشور بعد از 1991 و در واقع بعد از فروپاشی شوروی و دولتهایی که روی کار امدند در از جمله دولت ابولفضل ایلچی بیگ،دولت حیدر علی اف وبعد از او پسرش الهام علی اف و نگرش هرکدام از این دولتها به سیاسیت خارجی اذربایجان مورد اشاره قرار گرفته است.در ودر فصل سو...

From Giant Robots to Mobile Money Platforms: The Rise of ICT Services in Developing Countries