Such transfers will soon be achievable in hours, if not minutes, with very low transaction charges, thanks to e-cash and the like.
Powerful interests -- Microsoft, credit card concerns, banks -- are betting billions that zapping around e-cash will be as commonplace as sticking a card in an ATM.
Many investors buying Sina are buying it for weibo, which is accelerating its monetizing process after launching its virutal cash and e-commerce weibo platform this month.
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An online cash optimizer allows E-Traders, with one click, to see which investment vehicles at E-Trade and rival companies offer the best returns.
Investors are beginning to pour cash into its e-commerce efforts.
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The merchants who treat e-commerce as more than a digital cash register will do the best.
However, confirming what Venture Capitalists know well, Japan still is the second-largest mobile market in terms of revenues, plus the second-largest advertising market with an accelerating pick-up in e-commerce, especially among high-spending young adults (even Rakuten, a high-flying Japanese domestic e-commerce site, is flush with cash and looking to expand to foreign markets).
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Meanwhile, the shift to digital books has fueled an arms race among digital start-ups seeking to cash in on the massive pool of data collected by e-reading devices and reading apps.
Courier companies generally hold the money for two weeks, which means that the e-commerce company has to restock inventory before the cash from its last sale has arrived.
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For everybody else, such as infrequent readers and the young and cash-strapped, the mobile phone may become the preferred e-reader.
Whatever is collected beyond that is dropped into a vault at the end of their shift and later transported to a bank. (For reasons of security, the Port Authority will not disclose the name of the bank or the amount of money dropped into the vault.) Beyond simply collecting cash, toll collectors are required to document every non-E-ZPass customer by pressing relevant buttons on their monitor.
That package includes online e-mail, word processing, spreadsheets and document sharing, much like Microsoft's cash cow Office suite.
In one of the e-mails Clive Goodman, the paper's disgraced former royal editor, was requesting cash from the newspaper's then editor, Andy Coulson, BBC business editor Robert Peston said.
Chipshot.com, a golf e-commerce company, could have resorted to equity funding when it was running low on cash last winter, but it wanted to delay another round for 60 daysto let a national ad campaign soak in and to hire key employees.
E-Trade will have to continue to work to improve its credit profile and weather losses and negative cash flow.
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Now the New York City-based company is aiming to turn those clicks into cash with the introduction of R29 Shops, a content-and-image rich e-commerce platform.
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McKinsey executives, in an attempt to cash in on the explosive growth of hedge funds, had recently sent Rajaratnam several e-mails proposing that Galleon hire the company to provide expert advice.
Diana Shipping (NYSE: DSX): A leader in dry bulk shipping with a P-E of 6.59, an operating profit of near 50, and 373 million in cash, and a major beneficiary of the rising Chinese economy.
You OVER-REACT (e.g. liquidate your investments when the going gets tough, sit on cash and miss the next market rebound).
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