The Purpose – An evaluation of 197 hotel websites in Croatia was conducted to determine whether hotels in this economically lagging transition country exploit the potentials of the Internet as a marketing tool.Design/Methodology/Approach – A team of 30 trained assistants evaluated the...

Much of the data underlying global poverty and inequality estimates is not in the public domain, but can be accessed in small pieces using the World Bank's PovcalNet online tool. To overcome these limitations and reproduce this database in a format more useful to researchers, we ran...

NHN Corp. is a top Internet portal operator in Korea. The Internet giant was created by merging Naver, the search engine company, with, Hangame, the game portal company, in early 2000s. The merger was evaluated as one of the most successful M&A s in Korea. Large user base and good cash flow of...

Over the past decades, Islamic banking has gained a worldwide recognition. Started among Muslim countries in order to cater for the Shariah compliance banking needs of Muslims, it has now become widespread throughout the world. In Malaysia, the players in the Islamic banking industries are the...

TicketMonster is a deal-of-the-day coupon site which utilizes the Internet and mobile infrastructure to offer deals in Seoul and other cities around Korea on services at restaurants, cafes, spas, and so forth. Following the company's rapid expansion, management made the decision to expand the...

Online shoppers may differ in what they desire from websites based on their experience with a specific website and with online shopping in general. This study investigates the moderating influence of online and website-specific shopping experience on the importance of website criteria. The...

Most central banks use their websites intelligently. However, Steve Hanke and Michael Morgenstern from Johns Hopkins University find that some central banks are failing to pass elementary tests of transparency

The study 'Fostering Web Talent in Europe by encouraging the use of MOOCs focused on web skills' explored the use of MOOCs as one of the ways of boosting web skills amongst web-entrepreneurs in Europe. The study conclusions are based on the input from a study of the demand and supply of MOOCs...

The opportunities of using powerful computing resources on demand via the web are considered as a possible driver for the growth of the European economy. While the market for Social Network Sites has already experienced a consolidation, the market for Cloud Computing is still in an early stage,...

The opportunities of using powerful computing resources on demand via the web are considered as a possible driver for the growth of the European economy. While the market for Social Network Sites has already experienced a consolidation, the market for Cloud Computing is still in an early stage,...