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Internet to

Phone

This business

model allows

its users to

communicate

with people

through inter-

net across the

globe.

Organization : Skype

Year : August 2003

Founded : Niklas Zennström and Dane Janus Friis

Revenue : $14.5 billion

Subscribers : 300 million

About : This application helps its customers to

connect with people across the world through

internet calling. The service is free till 3 users,

after that it’s paid.

Organization : Google-Hangouts

Year : May 2013

Founded : Larry Page and Sergey Brin

Revenue : $18.7 billion

Subscribers : 400 million

About : This application helps its customers to

connect with people across the world through

internet calling and inter-to-phone calling. The

service is free till 10 users.

Free Photo

Share

The business

model allows

its users to

share photo

with one’s

friend over

internet.

Organization : Yahoo-Flickr

Year : 2004

Founded : Ludicorp

Revenue : $50 million

Subscribers : 87 million

About : The application allows its customers to

share photos for free over internet. The appli-

cation was bought by Yahoo! In 2005 for $25

million deal.

Organization : Instagram

Year : October 2010

Founded : Kevin Systrom and Mike Krieger

Revenue : $400 million

Subscribers : 300 million

About : This application allowsits user to share

pictures for free and also videos of upto 15 se-

cond over internet for free.

Online

Reselling

This business

model allows

its users to di-

rectly interact

with each other

for selling, buy-

ing and renting

of products.

Organization : Quikr

Year : 2008

Founded : Pranay Chulet

Revenue : $ 350 million

Subscribers : 20 million

About : The platform allows users who want to

sell there used products, homes and vehicles

for cash over internet. It allows direct interac-

tion of users by sharing there contact info.

Organization : eBay Inc.

Year : 1995

Founded : Pierre Omidyar

Revenue : $ 4.38 billion

Subscribers : 159 million

About : The platform allows users who want to

sell there used and unused products for cash

over internet. It allows direct interaction of us-

ers by sharing there contact info.

Brokerage

Model

Brokers are

market makers

who bring buy-

ers and seller

together and

generally oper-

ate on commis-

sion basis.

Organization : Amazon.com

Year : 1994

Founded : Jeff Bezos

Revenue : $ 88.98 billion

Subscribers : 270 million

About : The website acts as a online market

space for its users who want to sell or buy

products online . It has also other sources of in-

come like renting there website space.

Organization : Flipkart

Year : 2007

Founded : Sachin Bansal and Binny Bansal

Revenue : $ 15 billion

Subscribers : 22 million

About : The website acts as a online market

space for its users who want to sell or buy

products online .

Free Information

resource

Searching out

all the possible

required infor-

mation freely

available on the

internet from

public

resources.

Organization : Google

Year : September 1998

Founded : Larry Page and Sergey Brin

Revenue : $ 72.76 billion

Subscribers : 900 million per month

About : Started by two college dropouts as a

project eventually becoming the largest search

engine and a revolution in the world of inter-

net is the world’s 2nd largest company.

Organization : Yahoo

Year : January 1994

Founded : Jerry Yang and David Filo

Revenue : $ 1.23 billion

Searches : 700 million per month

About : Once upon a time the leading search

engine is todays one of the largest search en-

gine, email, news provider. It has grown by

leaps and bounds since its very starting.

Subscription

Model

The business

model that al-

lows its users to

access a service

by paying an

subscription

prize.

Organization : Listen-Real Networks

Year : August 2003

Founded : Real Networks

Revenue : $ 72.76 billion

Subscribers : 18 million

About :

It allows its users to listen various songs and updates

about music any-where and get its revenue from the sub-

scription of the customers.

Organization : Netflix

Year : 1997

Founded : Netflix

Revenue : $ 267 million

Subscribers : 69.17 million

About : The customers can watch any movie on

demand and anywhere. It provides an ease of ex-

cess to its customers. Charges a nominal rate of

subscription depending upon the plan customer

takes

Information

Model

The business

models helps

its users to

share and have

access to infor-

mation verified

sources.

Organization : Nielsen

Year : 1923

Founded : Arthur Nielson

Revenue : $ 6.288 billion

About : Supplies information about the customers

to various sellers who are either entering the market

or are al-ready their in existence.

Organization : Comscore

Year : August 1999

Founded : Magid Abraham and Gian Fulgoni

Revenue : $ 3.25 billion

About : It provides marketing data and ana-

lytics to many of the world's largest enterpris-

es, agencies, and publishers. Earns its revenue

from the big companies to whom it supplies

information about their customers that what

they buy and prefer.

Freemium

Model

In this model of e-

business the cus-

tomers can have

free access to the

information provid-

ed in the website

but only for a spe-

cific time advanced

options are paid .

Organization : DropBox

Year : 2007

Founded : DropBox Inc.

Revenue : $ 426 million

Subscribers : 200 million

About : The users are provided with a free stor-

age facility on their computer. Users are offered

a free account with a set storage size and paid

subscriptions for accounts with more capacity.

Organization : Pandora

Year : 2000

Founded : Will Glaser, Jon Kraft, Tim Wester-

gren

Revenue : $ 92 million

Subscribers : 80 million

About : It is an online radio that allows its us-ers

to listen to some songs for free but has to pay for

advanced version. The user uses genre station to

choose its playlist. The wide variety available

makes it very popular.

Direct Manu-

facturer

In this model

the manufac-

turer directly

sells the prod-

ucts to its

Customers

through

website.

Organization : Dell Inc.

Year : 1984

Founded : Michell Dell

Revenue : $ 59 million

About : It allows the customers to purchase their

products (computers, software, peripherals ) online

as well as through some retail stores. Brand name is

the reason of its sales and revenue.

Organization : Apple Inc.

Year : 1976

Founded : Steve Jobs

Revenue : $ 233 billion

About : A company well positioned as a pre-

mium brand in the market is known for its

products and the image they carry with self. It

is also number one company in Information

Technology world as per revenue.

Advertising

Model

In this model ,

the business

offers its cus-

tomers to post

their ad on oth-

er websites

attracting audi-

ence.

Organization : AdSense-Google

Year : 2003

Founded : Google Inc.

Revenue : $ 13.6 billion

About : It earns through CPC and CPM. Dou-

bleClick is the process that helps customer to ap-

proach Google AdSense. It helps advertisers in gen-

erating wide traffic to their website.

Organization : BuySellAds.com

Year : 2008

Founded : Todd Garland

Revenue : $ 8.5 billion

About : It charges 25% as commission compared

to that of 32% by AdSense. Also ranked as the

fastest growing advertising firms. Being the most

affordable of all the online ad agencies. Largest

distribution /advertising network.