e commerce

E-commerce is the promotion and sale of goods and services through electronic means. This usually involves the Internet, with transactions conducted through websites.

As the Internet marketplace grows, almost anything is available for purchase online. Online shopping for physical goods (usually for later delivery), purchasing instantly downloadable files of digital information, subscribing to repeated deliveries of information or goods, paying for access to membership-based website communities, bidding on goods or services through online auctions, donating to charities, and almost any other sort of product ordering or transaction imaginable is increasingly being conducted via e-commerce.

E-commerce offers impressive business opportunities for entrepreneurs, startups, and established companies worldwide. The vast reach of the World Wide Web, combined with increasing usage rates and ever more powerful (and inexpensive) e-commerce website tools continue to take market share from traditional bricks and mortar businesses due to the convenience, wide selection, and often competitive pricing offered by online merchants.

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Original Technorati articles tagged “e commerce”

• in Business
  Amazon Reports Sales of $21bn in 4th Quarter
  Amazon reveal 4th quarter figures below analyst expectations.
  by cmimanagers / on Jan 30, 2013
• in Business
  US Online Spending Up This Christmas
  New figures from comScore reveal how much America spent online over the holiday period.
  by cmimanagers / on Jan 4, 2013
• in Technology
  Did You Shop on Christmas Day?
  New data shows that more of us went shopping on Christmas day than ever before.
  by cmimanagers / on Dec 28, 2012

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• Ecommerce Weekly Roundup

  
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• E-Commerce & Social Networking Week in Review May 11, 2013

  
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• The Rakuten Startup Challenge 2013

  
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• Bitcoins, Baubles and Business

  
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• Questions of the Week: May 10, 2013

  
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• E-Commerce Transactions: What People Really Buy Online

  
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• Cash in on the Virtual Gift Certificate Trend

  
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• Badge of Honor: Yoox

  
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• Enterprise Class E-Commerce Solutions at Affordable Cost, Asahi Technologies Introduces Broadleaf Commerce Services in New York

  
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• Alibaba Buys Into Mapping Company

  
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