Alipay vs PayPal

Using online payment service for online shopping is become more attractive in nowadays. PayPal is one of the popular online payment service in world, which use it in western country commonly. However, PayPal cannot expand its development in Mainland China. It is also create a new competitor, Alipay, that affect the development of PayPal.

Since most of the Chinese are using the UnionPay, instead of Visa or MasterCard for online shopping. Thus, there is an alternative to using a credit card is Alipay. Alipay is a third-party online payment platform, which has been called the PayPal of the East. It is common of using the Alipay in Main China, Hong Kong as well as Macau. It can be linked to a bank account, as much as PayPal can be.

Alipay is mainly focused on the Mainland Chinese market. Take Hong Kong as an example, there are over thirty retail chains accept Alipay payments, it will increase the usage amount extensively. Besides, it improve its service to provide a more complete system for consumers and integrated into the daily life of consumers. While Alipay and PayPal are the leader of payment industry, PayPal is still focus on the core of its business of payment processing and Alipay has moved ahead and expanded from its initial core into other related areas. Therefore, Alipay can be a threat that affect the development of PayPal.

A new technology - Apple pay

Online shopping has become a popular shopping method. There are many people using online shopping since there are easy to purchase what they want and save their time.

While we are online shopping, we will pay by credit card rather than cash. When we purchase in physical shopping, we must take out the credit card to the sales. If we forget to bring any credit card, we cannot shopping. 

As technology advance, there are new technology that can pay by the devices and it does not need to take out the credit card. Apple Inc. has launched a digital wallet service which called Apple Pay in recent years. 

Apple pay is an easier way to pay in a store and work with the devices that we use everyday. We don't actually need to open up any apps nor any signal for it to work. Just add the credit card to Wallet of the Apple devices and it can use immediately. Also, it is technically more secure than an ordinary transaction, and much more convenient.

It is unlike paying with a physical card, using Apple Pay is only in seconds with the mobile devices. Just hold the mobile phone near the reader with finger on Touch ID. Apple Pay lets mobile devices make payments at contactless points of sale. Therefore, this service will be affect the development consumption patterns.

E-business in nowadays

The development of e-business is become more universal in nowadays. Most of the business companies want to capture more revenue or increase their reputation in the world, they will develop their business networking in order to catch up with the trend.

As we can see, there are many companies have establish their own website to let the customers contact with them in anytime and anywhere. They can share their informations as soon as possible and attract more potential customers. 

E-business of tourism industry

Tourism industry are more using the e-business to search for more new customers. Airline, Hotel or Travel agent are strongly developing their e-business in recent years. They are not only develop their e-business by themselves but also crossover with others company. There are many travel agent like Expedia and Agoda are the popular website that everyone would use. These website contain most of the informations of hotel and airline, it is convenience for the people who want to travel. The customers can likely to find the suitable resources and save the time.

E-business advantage

Basically, the internet continues to give rise to new and improved small business opportunities. E-businesses become famous since the low-cost start-up compared with a tradition business. Many of the barriers to open business have been reduced and it is easily to operate the business. All we need is a computer and access to the internet. The Internet gives us access to a much larger customer base than our personal contacts.An online business can reach customers in the four corners of the Earth. Therefore, development of e-business can be a good aspect for company to make their business better.

Mother and I travel to Korea

This was my second time travelled to Korea.

Since, I have studied the history in secondary school so I would like to visit the Korean Demilitarized Zone (DMZ) and the Military Demarcation Line (MDL) which call the 38th parallel.

This is the Bridge of Freedom.

Dorasan Station is a railway station, which once connected North and South Korea and has now been restored.

I hope that I can see the North and South Korea residents to use this station. Connect the North and South Korea.

Here was the observation tower. It can see the Pyongyang of North Korea far away.