Below is an extract from Internet articles about the advantages of e-commerce: What are the advantages of e-commerce? 1. Low financial cost: One e-commerce benefit is that it has a lower start-up cost. Physical retail stores have to pay up to thousands of dollars to rent one of their store locations. 2. 24/7 potential income: Another advantage of e-commerce is that online stores are always open for business. With Facebook ads, you can attract someone at 11 pm or 4 am in any part of the world. 3. Sell internationally: Next on the list of e-commerce benefits is that a new brand can easily sell to customers worldwide. You can discover your audience whether theyre in the UK, South America, or neighbouring countries. 4. Easy to showcase bestsellers: E-commerce benefits like displaying best-sellers make it easier to show off products to your customers.

Advantages of e-commerce 1. Low operational costs and better quality of services. 2. Buying/selling 24/7. 3. More reach to customers, there is no theoretical geographic limitations. 4. Faster buying/selling procedure, as well as easy to find products.

Required: a. Using the above articles, explain the advantages of e-commerce. You need to maintain the same content but express it in an alternative way.

b. Using part (a) as an example, apply and explain the concept of data and information.

c. Explain the objective of Question 2 in the perspective of plagiarism.