E-commerce, or electronic commerce, is the electronic purchase and sale of products or services over the internet. It includes any transaction that uses a web page to initiate or facilitate the sale ...

Most businesses today do some level of marketing, sales and customer service via the internet. Having part or all of your business operations online is an e-Business model. When a business is selling ...

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The government is said to be planning to push the World Trade Organization to lift a moratorium on customs duties on electronic transmissions. Such a move by the WTO would allow tariffs to be imposed ...

If mail order from a catalog had not been so popular in the Western world, perhaps e-commerce would have had a slower start. However, online ordering has been so ubiquitous that in order to entice ...

Shopping on the Web that is inspired by what others purchase or recommend. Also called "social shopping," social e-commerce may be triggered by name brands that people mention in postings on their ...

In this day and age, e-commerce has become a household word. In simplest terms, it’s the selling of products online. Via your own website or an online marketplace like eBay, you can promote and sell ...