Exam 11: Social Networks, Auctions, and Portals

Social network participation is one of the most common usages of the Internet.

________ accounts for over 40% of eBay's revenues.

Keeping bid increments high increases the number of bidders and the frequency of their bids.

Auction prices are always lower than prices in fixed priced markets.

The profit a seller makes at auction is a function of all of the following except:

Which of the following involves a concern that one will never know how much the ultimate winner might have paid, or the True value to the final winner?

BlackPlanet is an example of a(n) ________ social network.

Which of the following companies was an early investor in Facebook?

Which of the following involves e-mailing another seller's bidders and offering the same product for less?

Facebook purchased which of the following for $19 billion?

Which of the following is not one of the typical portal revenue sources?

Priceline is an example of a(n):

Around how many Americans used social networks in 2014?

All of the following types of auctions involve single units except:

Which of the following statements about Instagram is not True?

The world's leading portal/search engine site, in terms of unique visitors, is:

Which of the following allows the consumer to enter a maximum price and the auction software automatically bids up the goods to that maximum price in small increments?

Which of the following is the market leader in C2C auctions?

The falling price of display ads have contributed to Yahoo's struggles over the last three years.

Describe the four major Internet auction types discussed in the chapter and how they function.