4 Types of E-commerce Business Models. Not only Physical Products but Also Services.

by Winngie

1 October 2020

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4 Types of E-commerce Business Models. Not only Physical Products but Also Services.

 

The 4 types of E-commerce business models include Business-to-Consumer, Consumer-to-Consumer, Consumer-to-Business, and Business-to-Business.

Business-to-Consumer

Business-to-Consumer also called B2C is the procedure whereby businesses offer products and services to the ultimate users. It is applicable to any businesses or companies that sell their products and services to consumers through the internet for their own use. It refers to transactions between online retailers and their customers. A B2C company might also serve other businesses.

Examples of B2C companies: Amazon, Facebook, Alibaba, eBay, Google, Netflix.

Consumer-to-Consumer

Consumer-to-Consumer also called C2C is a form of e-marketing that involves the online allowed deals of products or services among consumers using a channel offered by a third entity. It’s the exchange of products and services between customers. C2C is emphatically the most popular kind of e-commerce business model.

Examples of C2C companies : eBay, Uber, Airbnb, Winngie.

Winngie is one of the solutions already in the market. Its called smart and easy way to send money abroad and exchange local currency.
Logic is simple but also clever. Match with people in cross countries who wants to send or receive money. Chat, deal with their receivers. Perform the transactions’ in local. Money never actually crosses any borders.

 

Instead of international money transfer and currency exchange companies commonly using, Winngie takes a unique approach towards abroad money transfer and currency exchange with a simple mobile application. Part of the “sharing economy,” Winngie offers you someone’s currency as a media to exchange, instead of an exchange office or transfer via bank. On Winngie, you can find people to exchange currency on your backpacking trip through Europe, or you can find someone to transfer your school fee during your internship in Los Angeles. Also, if you want to exchange leftover currency in your own home from your last trip of Thailand, you can exchange through Winngie and save money by exchanging without giving any commission.

 

Consumer-to-Business

Consumer-to-Business also called C2B is a type of e-marketing through which consumers sell their products or services to companies and get paid by them. The C2B model enables consumers to draw out value from businesses and vice versa.

Examples of C2B: Photographers providing stock images to consumers, bloggers.

Business-to-Business

Business-to-Business also called B2B is a type of e-market whereby products or services are traded among businesses. It’s a business model that focuses on selling products and services to other companies. If you provide a valuable product, people will be willing to pay for it.

Examples of B2B companies: TripAdvisor, Verizon, Chorus.

Quoted from: https://medium.com/@eyorekon.kevin/4-types-of-e-commerce-business-models-7c9206942921

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4 Reasons You Should Stop Using Old Style Financial Services to Send Money Abroad

by Winngie

2 May 2020

Exchange Currency

Financial Service

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International Money Transfer

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Why you should stop sending money abroad via bank, old-school finance services or remittance companies? Here are the 4 main reason.

 

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1-High commission fees.

Sending money overseas with a bank or western union will cost you min 10$ to average 50$ for each time. Insane! Why you need to share your salary with those chunky bankers? Save it with your belovers in homeland. There should be some solution for this old style monopoly system.

 

 

2-Slow process and no guarantee.

Remittance companies said they are cheaper yes like 5$, but plus currency change rate which is unfair so you will lose like 5$ more from rates and they are slow like turtle. It will take weeks to perform transaction or you can receive an undelivered message after weeks of waiting. Do you or your family have weeks to receive money from you? What if they are sick or need to pay for school fee. Money transfer should be ontime and certain.

 

 

3-Unfair exchange rates during money transfer.

Your money will melt like an icecream in your hand. Yes, rate issue. You want to send money to your home back but your bank or western union or remittance companies like tranferwise or worldremit is charging you super unfair amounts with the local money exchange rates.  So you can lose up to 16% beside the transfer fee. But why, is changing money to local currency that have that much cost, need any labor, need investment on manufacturing lines? Of course no, so what’s the reason for super high rate differences.

 

4-Bothering documentation to send money.

You need to prove so many documents and permissions to send or receive money from abroad in most of countries. Incase some urgent situation, if you need some extra money from your family, banks and government’s won’t allow you to do that and will ask for dozens of pages’ documents. For what? Just to receive money from your dad?  We, honest people, shouldn’t have to suffer because of a few illegal guys.

 

There should be some new way fintech tools to solve all those problems.

Winngie is one of the solutions already in the market. Its called smart and easy way to send money abroad and exchange local currency.
Logic is simple but also clever. Match with people in cross countries who wants to send or receive money. Chat, deal with their receivers. Perform the transactions’ in local. Money never actually crosses any borders.

Instead of international money transfer and currency exchange companies commonly using, Winngie takes a unique approach towards abroad money transfer and currency exchange with a simple mobile application. Part of the “sharing economy,” Winngie offers you someone’s currency as a media to exchange, instead of an exchange office or transfer via bank. On Winngie, you can find people to exchange currency on your backpacking trip through Europe, or you can find someone to transfer your school fee during your internship in Los Angeles. Also, if you want to exchange leftover currency in your own home from your last trip of Thailand, you can exchange through Winngie and save money by exchanging without giving any commission.

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How Covid-19 affected Exchange Currency and Transfer Money Business and Importance of P2P Apps during coronavirus outbreak.

by Winngie

14 March 2020

Coronavirus

Covid-19

Financial Service

International Money Transfer

Mobile app

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Money changers here are reeling from the impact of the coronavirus outbreak.

Business has been down by about 60% for all currencies, but the South Korean won and Chinese yuan have suffered the most.

The Local Newspaper visited five money changers at Bishan City on Monday (9 March 2020) evening and at Raffles Place yesterday.

While short queues formed at a few shops around noon at The Arcade in Raffles Place, money changers said it was a far cry from the normal crowded scene at lunchtime.

“It has completely stopped,” said Mr. Abdul Haleem, a managing partner of City Money Changers in The Arcade, about the sales in won during the last couple of days.

Another money changer at The Arcade said business in won has dropped by about 80%, while others see just one customer a week for yuan.

A travel advisory issued by the Ministry of Health on Sunday against non-essential travel to Daegu city and Cheongdo county in South Korea has prompted many holidaymakers to cancel or postpone their trips to the country.

Because the Covid-19 Pandemic people don’t want to go out to crowd places and don’t want to touch money which are changed hands several times a day.

Mr Hussein Ahmed, who runs AR Money Exchange in Junction 8 in Bishan, said: “On a normal day, we close the shop between 9pm and 9.30pm.

“Since the virus struck, we close around 8pm on most days. People just stopped coming.”

Precautionary measures taken by establishments housing some of these shops have also affected their business.

At The Arcade, linkways to the adjacent Clifford Centre were closed over two weeks ago, after an employee working in Clifford Centre tested positive for the virus on Feb 6.

The linkways were re-opened on Monday, a move that some tenants of The Arcade said came after feedback they submitted to the management about the adverse impact the closure had on their businesses.

Ms Khor, 25, a money changer for E-Globex Money Changer at The Arcade, said: “The closure affected us badly because our shop is at the end of the building.

“However, we understand why The Arcade’s management had to take these steps to protect its tenants.”

Mr Oli Mohamed, secretary of the Money Changers Association, said: “Initially, it was just the yuan (that saw a drop in sales). Now, the slowdown is fluid and it is happening across the board.”

He said he has received numerous calls and e-mails from members requesting assistance in seeking reduced rentals.

However some other services for money exchange are increasing after the Covid-19 pandemic outbreak. But how and why?

P2P Services like foodpanda, Uber, Airbnb, Gloco provides less contact with crowds during the coronavirus outbreak. So its more healthy and more safe.

Food delivery services was life saving option for the people living in Wuhan during th eoutbreak.

For example Winngie Exchange Currency and Send Money Abroad Mobile App p2p finance service, enables people to match with other ones around you or in cross countries to exchange local currencies or sending money abroad. So the people who wants to exchange money or send money abroad do not have to go out to crowd places like bank or shopping mall or airport exchange offices to change currency or transfer money anymore.

According to official website info here is How it works and What’s Winngie?

Winngie is a social platform for travelers, foreign students, expats, business people, and anyone travelling internationally. We help you transfer money abroad and exchange local money with real people. There are no hidden fees, no commissions, and no differences between the currency exchanges.
You decide the exchange rate and you find a solution that suits your needs.
We connect people with currency needs and help foster a mutually beneficial exchange. By cutting out the middle man, Winngie can help you drastically reduce the amount you pay while exchanging currencies. Say goodbye to your bank!
Thanks to Winngie, you can fully maximize the value of every currency exchange and every money transfer. We work with all currencies – including crypto-currencies – providing a new way to send money abroad. By taking a complex process and making it simple and effective, we help millions of people every day. Whether it’s helping children go to school, helping family members receive medical treatment, or just helping people pay their bills, we believe in helping our customers’ hard work go further.
That’s why Winngie is different: we’re on a mission to make fintech fair.

 

Tags: Coronavirus outbreak, Covid-19, Pandemic, Money Exchange, P2P mobile apps, Winngie, P2P fintech

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Transferring Money Costs!

by Winngie

27 November 2019

General

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The money transfer industry is as old as the banking industry. At the past few years, it has been seen as exponential growth with a relation in rising number of immigrants in the developed countries.

Innovative and advanced technology changes the charge rule of banking industry. The average total cost of transferring money has been declining. According to the World Bank data, the global average plummeted to below 8.4% in the first quarter of 2014 from the 9% recorded a year earlier.

However, with all this growth, why isn’t the process of transferring money as smooth as it should be? Why are some remittance corridors paying negligible amount while others such as Saharan Africa pay is as high as 12% of the amount remitted?

Imagine you are going to transfer your friend $25 from the UAE. How much would he get? It is hard to tell if you have never done it before using the conventional system, all because of a myriad of hidden charges. Unless you are internet savvy, you cannot avoid a multitude of fees in addition to diluted exchange rates that accompany such a transaction. The draining of the lump sum involved is what many customers in this industry decry. The fees charged by Money Transfer Operators (MTOs) and their foreign currency exchange rates reduce the total amount sent. Even in the cases when you fall into the trap of the ‘fee-free rates’, the exchange rate is often too diluted to make up for the lost commissions.

While we may be quick to judge these MTOs as profits connoisseur, there is more to it than what meets the eye. Factors such as technology and infrastructure, and regulation and interoperability all play a role in cost structure and pricing.

For example, leading commercial banks with a global network that operates in this industry are slowly leaving citing the regulatory risks and a high cost of operation that eats on their profits.

Unlike Money Transfer Operators that can handle spoonful transactions, inter-bank systems are suitable for moving large sums of money. But governments are keen on large transfers owing to increased money laundering activities over the past two decades.

What’s more, it is a requirement for the players in this industry to know their customers, which raises serious privacy concern, apart from eating on your time as you fill out the forms to reveal your identity. Banks succeed here by making their money transfer from the customers to their account holders.

Just to remind you, Money Transfer Operators don’t have their independent networks in some regions and just partner with the local banks to reach their customers. Such partnership only means additional expenses, in which the end-consumer has to shoulder.

After putting all these factors into account, the problem rounds down to the government control. The numerous checkpoints initiated by the state agencies to mitigate fraud and money laundering, not only increasing the cost of doing business but also delaying transfers.

While any problem caused by the government is not often easy to overcome, this one is! The answer does not involve engaging in activism or media campaigns but lies on technology. Does Winngie ring a bell?

Winngie is a well-know platform that you transfer your money to anywhere in the world with based on platform that you can find someone who else to transfer same as you do. It is a great capability to find a platform that also eases up your transfer and makes the cost cheaper.

To use Winngie to transfer money, you need to create an account and your recipient needs one too. The rest is as simple as matching like tinder. You fill the amount you want to send , enter the address of the recipient, and click send.

There are lots of benefits that come with embracing Winngie as means of money transfer. However, there are three outstanding reasons namely:

  1. Fast: Unlike the Western Union or Money Gram transfers that take days to be processed, Winngie system is almost instant. The money reflects on the system a few seconds after it is sent but may take up to an hour to be available for withdrawal.
  2. Cheap: Winngie is a peer-to-peer network and, therefore, eliminates the roles played by third parties. You only pay negligible fees, and there are no hidden charges.
  3. Privacy: While using this network, you do not need to worry about somebody snooping around your finances. What’s more, the transactions are protected and devoid of your personal details.

 

Overall, Winngie is an amazing platform that you can find a good way to transfer while you are staying at your home and not going out to find a way to handle your transfer. It gives you possibility to transfer small amount of money that normally costs more than the original amount. Here you go with the Winngie Exchange and Send Money Mobile App to start matching with people around you.

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Exchange Money and Lose on the Spot

by Winngie

16 October 2019

Exchange Currency

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Anyone who travels as often as me or lives in several different countries as I do may know that he/she needs to exchange money all the time. Each time, you will see how much the banks are charging and cutting from your money.

All payments and transfer fees are not so unclear, and you don’t know how much it costs you. In the information era, there is some information that has been covered but not opened to us. If you transfer a huge amount of money from your country to another country, you will feel amazed how much it may cost you and you will not be even sure how much you pay for each specific reason.

You will be battered to realize that the fees are as much as 13%. That’s on a round-trip exchange currency. It means if you exchange the money then change it back, you may lose 13% of the exchange amount. Of course you’re not going do a double exchange, but it gives you a clear idea of how much the banks can make out of you. The average fees are roughly 7% of the total exchange amount for a round-trip or 3.5% for one way.

Interbank rate is the rate the banks pay when exchanging money. This is the rate the banks pay when they are trading with each other. This is the “genuine” exchange rate. The banks make a margin on top of this, and give you their exchange rate with the fees covered. Mostly they do not open out the fee, and they just disclose the rate that you have exchanged. The reason why they charge that much is because this is a hidden fee. You don’t see the fee because you just see how much foreign currency you received when exchanging.

 

Country

Bank name Example currency

Round-trip fees

International

PayPal AUD/USD 3-9%

U.S.A.

Wells Fargo USD/EUR

2%

U.S.A.

Citibank AUD/USD

2.1%

Australia NAB AUD/EUR

10%

Australia

Westpac AUD/EUR 11%
United Kingdom Barclays GBP/EUR

13%

United Kingdom

Lloyds GBP/EUR

5%

Canada

Toronto Bank CAD/USD

6%

Canada RBC CAD/EUR

8%

The table above indicates the rates you receive if you wire money into your bank account in another currency. This is probably what will happen if you sale a house in one country and purchase another house in another country. It’s not the rates you receive when exchanging cash over the counter in the bank (although rates for both situations are usually very high). I include PayPal in the table above. Although they are not a bank, they are a popular option for international transfers. You will notice that the fees in the US are a bit more reasonable than the UK, Australia and Canada. But still, even the Wells Fargo currency exchange rates of 2% round-trip (1% one-way) cost some money to pay when there is no other lower cost option.

There are several options to avoid these fees, but it depends on how much money you are exchanging and which currencies you are exchanging. If you’re transferring $5k to $100k, you can avoid the fees and pay only around 0.5% by using any one of these currency exchange companies:

  • TransferWise – charges 0.5% one way or 1% round trip. They seem to be able to facilitate a transfer even if you do not have a bank account in both countries (but I have not confirmed this). The other alternatives on this list will need you to have a bank account in your name in both countries. TransferWise will definitely need the sender to have bank account and will need the sender to verify their identity with a copy of a passport or similar documentation.
  • OFX – charges usually 0.5% one way or 1% round trip.
  • CurrencyFair – charges usually 0.5% one way, and they also have a marketplace where you can trade with other people directly. (Note: Five free transfers with CurrencyFair if you use the link)
  • xe.com – fee varies depending on the currency.
  • Winngie-it gives you the best rate and best option. It is the best I have used.
  • Curexe – offers a transparent 1% cost on currency exchanges and goes down to 4% on higher volume transactions. They have awesome customer service because you can get a direct line to the founder 24/7.

 

The way for these services to work is that you transfer (via wire transfer usually or ACH in the US) to their bank account and then they will wire or direct transfer to you in the exchange currency. Usually this means you need a bank account in the two different currencies. You can get a bank account with multiple currencies which will solve this issue, for example, by setting up an account with HSBC in Hong Kong, Singapore, Australia or the UK.

There is also an option for using a foreign exchange broker to directly exchange money and pay the same rates that banks pay. This is something I have personally done, but it’s a little tricky to set it up. I would not recommend it unless you have over $500k to transfer. In other words, brokers don’t want you to set up an account. Just to exchange some money! They are looking for you to trade, and transacting hundreds of times, so that they make something on brokerage fees. One company you may use is Interactivebrokers. There will be a monthly fee and a minimum to open the account if you do this.

All of these previous options are more for transferring larger amounts of money. If you’re traveling overseas and just need some cash during your trip, there are basically two options: local currency exchange (cash to cash) or simply using your credit card. The best option depends on which country you are traveling to. Some countries have a local economy that relies heavily on exchanging to US dollars and you will find in these countries that the exchange rates for cash to cash can be quite reasonable (around 1% fees one way). Some examples are: The Philippines, Hong Kong or Ukraine. If you have US dollars, then the best option for these countries is to bring US dollar cash and exchange it when you arrive. Mostly you will not want to exchange at the airport as the rates are likely to be a lot worse than in the city center.

Credit cards are another option for getting your money when traveling. This can be either paying via the card or withdrawing from an ATM.

You want to be careful as most cards will double-charge you, not only for the currency conversion, but also an extra fee for withdrawing from ATMs and then on top of this an additional charge for foreign currency withdrawals.

So you can end up being charged in three separate ways for the same transaction: 1) The ATM fee 2) A percentage charge for cash advance or for foreign currency transactions 3) Another hidden fee on the exchange rate (again banks do not declare this fee to you they just tell you that this the “rate” they are giving you, but of course that “rate” includes their undisclosed fee.

There are some credit card options without additional fees whilst traveling, but all of them as far as I am aware will still have the hidden fee that they take when converting currencies.

 

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No More Feeding Big Chunky Bankers

by Winngie

3 October 2019

Exchange Currency

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International Money Transfer

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If we just get on a time machine and fly back to 80s, the time of Marty McFly from “Back to the Future”. It would be tremendously difficult to explain how the world changed and how we are connected by a button of a small computers and even mobile phones. The time has changed, internet is already old and settled technology that we cannot even consider a life without it. If we go back 80s, even we cannot be sure to explain what we are having at this stage of the time. We are now well connected and well achievable.

The things on Internet are also on move and change rapidly. Big companies are losing their stance and small business who has no brick and stock having their time. There are no clear definition of supplier or demander, now all same in the same basket. No more people are stuck with big corporations and full of employees that earning good sum of money and enjoying being monopoly. The time changed, no more shopping mall needed, it is already online. No more bookstore, no more travel agents, no more groceries we are stuck on and need to visit, it is all one click away.

Banking? Big cold banks? Waiting for the line and getting ticket to remit your money? Still in this era? Money is a media that we use for mutual agreement. It is actually easiest one to transfer or remit. No need big exchange offices and no need to line up for banks declare all your recordings including your personal details.

Nowadays Peer to peer financial platforms are creating fresh start for the industry.

It is a demand that never been supplied well until lately, now all transactions are easy and manageable via online applications. Why people need to pay for the easiest transaction? Why we need to pay corporate bankers well paid salary? Peer to peer transfer options get the exchange offices, banks, lines, long waiting time out of our way. Now it is easier.

It is funny that one of the first material that we use as peer to peer, money! It is first peer to peer solution, barter is the forefather of all peer to peer business strategy. With the revolutionary speed of internet, there is no higher costly transfer deals, commissions and unnecessary waiting times.

Peer to peer Financial applications started replacing exchange offices. No more line up in the middle of street and waiting someone to charge you commission because you need them. Your hard worked salary, the money that you save for your kids, the salary for your family. Why you need waste your daily hard work to people who are sitting and getting commission. Why your hard worked money has been cut by big fat banks? It is painful for many working people that they need to look after their family back in their countries. Current business style is a monopoly, it is slow, costly and not even considering hardworking people who just want to transfer their money to their loved ones, who pays their school fees or rent. This is the motivation why peer to peer financial platform will be the one which replace robust monsters that cut our lumpsum money.

I am you and you are same as me.  We are all having same issues and same cut, why we need to feed big guys. Why we need to work hard every single day with dreaming our love ones, dreaming of being together one day we get together. However, giving large amount of commission, giving a share from our money to these big fatty chunky business monopolies. No, not anymore. That time is changing, taxi industry changed in good way for drivers and users, not anymore feeding this oligarchs of transportation. Travel has changed, it is cheaper now, affordable faster. All peer to peer business development, it is a revolution of business, it is the awakening of the customer. No more lining up and waiting for being devalued with our own money.

Yes, peer to peer financial apps already on the market, one day they will be the one change this vicious circle. Faster, cheaper, friendlier and yes, no more monopoly. Open space and plenty of options, this is revolution!

For Example, Meet Winngie Services. Winngie is a social platform for travelers, foreign students, expats, business people, and anyone travelling internationally. We help you transfer money abroad and exchange local money with real people. There are no hidden fees, no commissions, and no differences between the currency exchanges.
You decide the exchange rate and you find a solution that suits your needs.
We connect people with currency needs and help foster a mutually beneficial exchange. By cutting out the middle man, Winngie can help you drastically reduce the amount you pay while exchanging currencies. Say goodbye to your bank!

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C2C Commerce and the Best Global Examples

by Winngie

27 July 2019

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C2C commerce in a way, called as peer-to-peer e-commerce, is a basic concept to grasp and a quite trendy business model for many companies lately. It bases on with an existing platform customers who would be the supplier, and supplier who could be the customer. This type of platform transaction goes on certain platform and business runs between direct customer themselves. This business engagement is being on platform, but the business is direct as this is the substantial basic structure that we see in C2C commerce.

The way of business and the model itself differs from business to business and conceptually has evolved based on the business pattern of certain industries. It is a structure of business based on mutual benefit of 2 parts and then uses the platform as true way as platform. The platform itself is a basic place that transaction has been secured and controlled in a way and facilitation of business has been regulated.

There are many ways that peers use the platform as securing the transaction, receiving sustainable demand, and having their own supply market properly. It is a mutual performance way that many users satisfy with their effort ,and the payment has done for the process on platform.

Structurally speaking, it creates lump profit for sellers and buyers or users and service supplier. Technological advances and greater availability create the better conditions and demand that many business partners will find their own supplier quickly. Especially in service ones, speed and transaction success percentage has been dramatically shifted and this change is the main actor in the industry regardless of which part of business they involve.

There are many examples already involved in several different industries such as E-bay, Craiglist, Winngie, Uber, Airbnb and many local players such as Grab, Tujia etc.E-bay is one of the most famous e-commerce platforms that many users enjoy great benefit and speedy business structures. It has been used all over the world, and has been in long time in the industry and great market acknowledgment.

Craiglist is a platform dedicated for various sections and business including classifieds and advertisement. There are plenty of information and demanding details that many find it as a great source of product and information.

Winngie, the unique social maker, mainly focuses on money transfer and foreign currency exchange. For many users, it is a must when they are travelling and it’s a budget-worthy platform that they can find out the best exchange rate deals, and probably make friends with their match. For expats, it is a convenient tool to transfer their money and pay their own mortgage or school fees back in their country to family and friends. It is a financial tool that changes the industry and turns to be popular lately.

Uber is a transformation starter in the transportation idea with a basic start, changes the transportation industry business model, and pushes the business one step further. Many platforms follow Ubers footstep and tries to execute the same structure as Uber model, but still Uber is the most successful one to change the market environment and involves in several different business areas.

Airbnb is a revolution in accommodation business. It not only changes all mindset but also creates a new of stay. It starts from the pathway of couch surfing and at the end it adds more commercial model on top it. Still it is the newest method and innovative way in its industry and it consistently influences the tourism environment.

 

C2C player mainly focus on new generation players and gets good share from merging business, such as, what Uber done, as combining meal and transportation which creates Ubereats. Winngie Exchange and Transfer Money has the similar model, combining technology with financial business in all around the world.

Globally, the new movement is C2C which will be a new way to create a new era. There are many new players but currently the ones Uber, Airbnb, Winngie, E-bay and Craiglist who sustains its corporate in their own market.

Keywords: C2C, Travelgram, Uber, Airbnb, Winngie, sharing economy, peer-to-peer

 

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Uber faces hard time in London. Peer to Peer Mobile App Articles.

by Winngie

20 July 2019

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Uber faces hard time in London. Peer to Peer Mobile App Articles.

As we all heard on September 22, 2017, TFL, which regulates transport in the capital, announced that it would not renew Uber’s operating license.

This meant that, as of September 30, Uber would no longer be licensed, but it was able to continue to operate until all appeals were exhausted. However, UberEats, the company’s food delivery service, was not affected by the dispute. Company itself already moved it’s effort on to UberEats which is a secondary substitute business for Uber.

According to TFL (Transport For London), Uber is considered as “not fit and proper” to operate in London. As the city itself is famous with own specific design cab design and with highly appreciated quality of taxi drivers, Uber might sound a tad of losing the taste of the good image of London. It is a new business style and invading conservative way of business.

In London, the firm faced criticism from unions, lawmakers and traditional black cab drivers over working conditions. Overall the existing suppliers in the market are not happy with their new unconservative rival. Many faced this trend in the past, the new one who replaces the old conservative way. Uber is considered as danger for their existing quality and established well developed transportation way.Opponents also claimed it caused gridlocked roads and did not do enough to regulate its drivers.

As expected Uber appealed TFL for licensing decision on October 13, 2017. Uber claimed that the ban would danger 40,000 jobs and affect 3.5million customers. It is a fact that C2C business gets bigger and the consequences of blocking is also substantial.

The newly assigned CEO Dara Khosrowshahi, who replaced former CEO, and co-founder Travis Kalanick, used to work in Expedia which is also affected by C2C development of Airbnb itself, said: “Drivers who use Uber are licensed by Transport for London and have been through the same enhanced DBS background checks as black cab drivers. Our pioneering technology has gone further to enhance safety with every trip tracked and be recorded by GPS.

He mentioned clearly “We have always followed TFL rules on reporting serious incidents and have a dedicated team who works closely with the Metropolitan Police.” However, in the court Chief Magistrate ruled out that TFL had right to refuse a new license in September 2017 because of the reason that as mentioned Uber is not fit and proper to operate taxi in London metropolitan area.

But she concluded that the company had made enough changes to its business practices, allowing it to continue operating.

Uber has been battling with the magistrate decision and claimed it as a serious mistake which has been implemented by the court.

At the end of this battle, Uber agreed to a 15-month “probationary” period with the restrictions agreed with TFL on June 26, 2018. It will give a leverage that Uber will use the probation period as an advantage and classify itself for five-year license which is good enough to revolutionize market and implement its power into London.

Uber is an example of battling with the local market in London meanwhile Airbnb also has hard time back in London. Airbnb has been faced local accommodation law intervention several times. As there is a C2C market shift back in London and thanks to Uber battle which is already started long time ago, Airbnb will face less hard path. Winngie is another C2C stronger player which has been facing dispute and issues back in London. However, with their strong network into system and less established foreign exchange currency trade in London, it is easier to implement power in London market. Many travelers from London use Winngie as a media to exchange their currency to local money before they leave from London. Winngie Exchange Currency and Transfer Money Mobile App has already in the market for a while and not been replaced for a long time. Airbnb and Winngie might be following same path as Uber’s experience, but currently these two big C2C-players have no big concerned as a problem in London.

Keywords: Sharing economy, C2C market, Uber, UberEats, Winngie, AirBnb, Exchange Money, Transport for London

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What is peer to peer and What are most popular P2P mobile platforms

by winngie

3 January 2019

General

Peer to Peer

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Peer to peer is the relational dynamic at work in distributed networks

Peer to peer is there not restricted to technology or P2P filesharing as such, but covers every social process with a peer to peer dynamic, whether these peers are humans or computers.

Peer to peer is particularly expressed in social processes such Peer ProductionPeer Governance, Peer Property, Peer Transportation and Peer Exchange.

It’s a way of organizing, and a way of thinking about organizing. It’s also a political and social program for those who believe that in many cases, peer to peer modes are a preferable option.

“What is peer to peer? Here’s a first tentative definition: It is a specific form of relational dynamic, is based on the assumed equipotency of its participants, organized through the free cooperation of equals in view of the performance of a common task, for the creation of a common good, with forms of decision-making and autonomy that are widely distributed throughout the network. 

P2P processes are not structureless, but are characterized by dynamic and changing structures which adapt themselves to phase changes. It rules are not derived from an external authority, as in hierarchical systems, but generated from within. . It does not deny ‘authority’, but only fixed forced hierarchy, and therefore accepts authority based on expertise, initiation of the project, etc… P2P may be the first true meritocracy. The threshold for participation is kept as low as possible. Equipotency means that there is no prior formal filtering for participation, but rather that it is the immediate practice of cooperation which determines the expertise and level of participation. Communication is not top-down and based on strictly defined reporting rules, but feedback is systemic, integrated in the protocol of the cooperative system. Techniques of ‘participation capture’ and other social accounting make automatic cooperation the default scheme of the project. Personal identity becomes partly generated by the contribution to the common project.

P2P is a network, not a hierarchy (though it may have elements of it); it is ‘distributed’, though it may have elements of centralization and ‘decentralization’; intelligence is not located at any center, but everywhere within the system. Assumed equipotency means that P2P systems start from the premise that ‘it doesn’t know where the needed resource will be located’, it assumes that ‘everybody’ can cooperate, and does not use formal rules in advance to determine its participating members. Equipotency, i.e. the capacity to cooperate, is verified in the process of cooperation itself. Validation of knowledge, acceptance of processes, are determined by the collective. Cooperation must be free, not forced, and not based on neutrality (i.e. the buying of cooperation in a monetary system). It exists to produce something. It enables the widest possible participation. These are a number of characteristics that we can use to describe P2P systems ‘in general’, and in particular as it emerges in the human lifeworld.

Whereas hierarchical systems are based on creating homogeneity amongst its ‘dependent’ members, distributed networks using the P2P dynamic regulate the ‘interdependent’ participants preserving heterogeneity. It is the ‘object of cooperation’ itself which creates the temporary unity. Culturally, P2P is about unity-in-diversity, it is concrete ‘post-Enlightenment’ universalism predicated on common projects; while hierarchy is predicated on creating sameness through identification and exclusion, and is associated with the abstract universalism of the Enlightenment.

To have a good understanding of P2P, I suggest the following mental exercise, think about these characteristics, then about their opposites. So doing, the radical innovative nature of P2P springs to mind. Though P2P is related to earlier social modes, those were most in evidence in the early tribal era, and it now emerges in an entirely new context, enabled by technologies that go beyond the barriers of time and space.

An important clarification is that when we say that peer to peer systems have no hierarchy or are not centralized, we do not necessarily mean the complete absence of such characteristics. But in a P2P system, the use of hierarchy and centralization, serve the goal of participation and many-to-many communication, and are not used to prohibit or dominate it. This means that though P2P arises in distributed networks, not all distributed networks exhibit P2P processes. When distributed meshworks, for example interlinking boards of directors, serve a hierarchy of wealth and power, and are based on exclusion rather than participation, this does not quality as a full P2P process.

P2P can be a partial element of another process; or it can be a full process. For examples, the technological and collaborative infrastructure build around P2P principles, may enable non-P2P processes. In the example just above it is the infrastructure of Empire, but it can also enables new types of marketplaces, gift/sharing economy practices, Exchanging Foreign currencies such as Winngie, sharing your car like Uber, or your house Airbnb.  Where P2P is a full process, we will argue that it is a form of communal shareholding producing a new type of Commons.”
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Quoted from Michel Bauwens.

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