e-commerce
| e-commerce - E-commerce, ecommerce, or electronic commerce is defined as the conduct of a financial transactions by electronic means. With the growth of commerce on the Internet and the Web, ecommerce often refers to purchases from online stores on the Web, otherwise knows as e-commerce Web sites. They may also be referred to as "virtual-stores" or Cyber stores. Since the transaction goes through the Internet and the Web, some have suggested another term: I-commerce (Internet commerce), or icommerce. Few have referred to it as Web-commerce. E-commerce can be business to business (B to B) or business to consumer (B to C) |
| To get an idea of what we are spending on e-commerce, check out the Electron Economy web page. It has a ticker of current spending on e-commerce. |
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