Internet-based Service Provider

An Internet-based Service Provider is a service provider that provides an internet-based service (such as a Web service).

• Context:
  • It can range from being a B2C Internet-based Service Provider to being a B2B Internet-based Service Provider.
• Example(s):
  • a Web-facing Organization, such as Google Inc., and facebook, Inc..
  • …
• Counter-Example(s):
  • Offline Service Provider.
• See: Smartphone App, Legal Entity, Online Service, Software Company.

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References

2014

• (Yi et al., 2014) ⇒ Xing Yi, Liangjie Hong, Erheng Zhong, Nanthan Nan Liu, and Suju Rajan. (2014). “Beyond Clicks: Dwell Time for Personalization.” In: Proceedings of the 8th ACM Conference on Recommender systems. ISBN:978-1-4503-2668-1 doi:10.1145/2645710.2645724
  • QUOTE: Many internet companies, such as Yahoo, Facebook, Google and Twitter, rely on content recommendation systems to deliver the most relevant content items to individual users through personalization.

2011

• (Andreessen, 2011) ⇒ Marc Andreessen. (2011). “Why Software Is Eating The World." Wall Street Journal, August 2011.
  • QUOTE: We believe that many of the prominent new Internet companies are building real, high-growth, high-margin, highly defensible businesses. …

    … My own theory is that we are in the middle of a dramatic and broad technological and economic shift in which software companies are poised to take over large swathes of the economy. …

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