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BUSS4 Research Theme

• Articles: E-commerce
• Website: The Daily Mail
• Website: Independent
• Website: The Times
• Website: BBC Business News
• Website: The Economist
• Website: Marketing Magazine

Essay-Marking Activity

• Article: Nick Sinfield Booted and Spurred to take on the States

Comparison 1: HMV and Spotify

• Website: About HMV
• Website: About Spotify
• Article: Why Did HMV Fail?
• Article: Thom Yorke Calls Spotify 'The Last Desperate Fart of a Dying Corpse'
• Video: Rise of a Tech Giant: the History of Spotify
• Article: Spotify Tripled its Losses in Two Years. Is Music Streaming Over?
• Article: Spotify: Being Number One is Nice, but it also Makes You a Target
• Case Study: How Spotify Developed an Alternative Management System Based on Servant Leadership, Interaction-based Learning and Adaptability – Changing the Music Industry along the Way
• Article: Spotify UK Subscription Income Worth 10 Times Revenue from Ad-funded

Comparison 2: Tesco and Ocado

• Article: News E-commerce Holds up for Tesco as its Sales Fall and its Profits Crash
• Essay: The Impact Of E-commerce On Tesco Plc Information Technology Essay
• Article: Online Retail is Front and Center in the Quest for Growth
• Data: Retailers Used in Last Month for Household Grocery Shopping in the United Kingdom (UK) in 2014* (Paywall)
• Data: UK Supermarkets (Market Share) [link no longer working]
• Article: The Next Five Years: How the UK Grocery Market Will Evolve [link no longer working]
• Article: Tesco's Online Sales Increase Despite £6.37bn Loss
• Article: Tesco Offloads Supermarket Sites for £250m
• Interview: How Retail Giant Tesco Handled the E-comm Onslaught
• Data: Internet Access – Households and Individuals 2014
• Website: Ocado: Who We are - the Marketplace
• Website: Ocado: Strategic Objectives
• Article: Ocado Sees Profit for First Time in 15 years
• Article: Online Shopping: Which Supermarket Really Delivers?
• Article: Ocado Sales Jump 19.2 Per Cent as Company Says it Expects to Keep Growing Ahead of the Curve

Comparison 3: Comparethemarket and Groupon

• Website: About Comparethemarket
• Infographic: How Price Comparison Websites Affect Market Performance in the UK
• Article: Price Comparison Websites Start to Mature (Paywall)
• Article: How Meerkat Aleksandr Orlov Helped Increase the Market for TV ads
• Website: Amazon - Important Notice
• Website: About Groupon
• Article: 5 Businesses That Survived the Recession and Why
• Article: Groupon Acquires OrderUp Food Delivery Service
• Article: Groupon to Cut 1,100 Jobs, Pull Out of 7 Countries
• Article: Why are Groupon and LivingSocial Failing?
• Article: Ding Dong, Daily Deals Are Dead - The Thrilling Demise of Groupon’s Crummy Business Model
• Article: Counterpoint: Groupon is not a Success
• Article: The Good and Bad of Groupon and Small Businesses
• Article: Insurance Price Comparison Sites Failing, Says FCA
• Article: 'Showrooming' Carried Out by 43% of Brits

Comparison 4: Times Newspapers and Guardian Media Group

• PDF: The Sunday Times Analysis of Circulation
• Article: National Press ABCs, December 2015: Cut-price Star Grows Sales and Hurts Mirror Titles
• Article: What 3 Publishers have Learned from their Approach to Paywalls
• PDF: News Consumption in the UK 2015: Executive Summary
• Article: News UK Chief Refuses to Rule Out Scrapping Times Paywall in Future
• Article: Times Newspapers Posts £1.7m Profit, First in 13 years
• Article: Financial Times to Change Way it Charges for Online Content
• Article: These are the UK Newspapers Failing to Tackle the Switch to Digital
• Article: Guardian Media Group Plc (GMG) Today Announces its Results for the Financial Year Ended 29 March 2015
• Profile: Information on Guardian News and Media [link no longer working]
• Article: Does Ad Blocking Herald the End of the Free Internet?

Comparison 5: Primark and H&M

• Website: About Primark
• Website: History of H&M
• Article: Primark's Annual Profits are Up by 44%
• Article: Primark Trials Online Sales with Asos
• Article: Primark Sales Leap by 12%
• Infographic: 5 Facts About Online Retail Sales in the UK
• Data: Revenue of Primark Worldwide from Financial Year 2007 to 2015 (in Million GBP) (Paywall)
• Article: Faster, Cheaper Fashion
• PDF: Associated British Foods Annual Report and Accounts 2014 (Primark are within this group)
• Article: H&M Makes a Big E-commerce Push
• Article: H&M Plans to Expand its E-commerce
• Article: David Beckham and H&M's Super Bowl Ad Could Change Advertising Forever

Comparison 6: London Licensed Taxi (Black Cabs) and UBER

• Website: Transport for London
• Website: The Licensed Taxi Drivers Association
• Website: mytaxi (formerly known as Hailo)
• Article: Why Uber is the Best Thing for Black Cabs
• Website: Uber
• Article: Uber’s Blitz on London Leads to Drop in Black-Cab Recruits
• Article: Uber, Lyft Reportedly Sinking San Francisco Taxi Business
• Article: Uber-nomics: Here's What it Would Cost Uber to Pay its Drivers as Employees
• Website: Sidecar
• Website: Lyft
• Article: Leaked: Uber's Financials Show Huge Growth, Even Bigger Losses

Suggested Answers: Comparison 1

• Article: Play.com is Bought by Japan's Rakuten
• Interview: Why did HMV fail? Interview with George Scott of Retail Analysts Conlumino