Translating their success in the consumer space to the business-to-business arena is no small undertaking.
The reason: its stake in SciQuest.com, a business-to-business site that enjoyed a spectacular public offering.
Most transactions are business-to-business, and, since companies are subject to audit, most pay sales taxes anyway.
Zollars got an even bigger share of Neoforma, a business-to-business marketplace for medical products.
C. and Dallas round out the top five cities for all business-to-business sales positions.
Mar. 8 marked the rebirth of Jackpot as JNet Enterprises, a business-to-business Internet incubator.
LinkedIn is the appropriate platform for sales of business-to-business products or services, Francis says.
Business-to-business (B2B) and business-to-consumer (B2C) are two terms that are familiar to most business executives.
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The concept of business-to-business and business-to-consumer video communications has never existed in the enterprise-class video market.
For starters, the big money is not in consumer shopping but in business-to-business commerce.
BT, first in its mobile-telecoms division, then as a pioneer of the group's business-to-business e-commerce efforts.
MarkMonitor also sifted through three business-to-business exchange sites--Alibaba.com and Made-in-China.com, and iOffer, which sell products to retailers.
"Sophisticated entrepreneurial activity is going on in remote areas, and it needs business-to-business telecommunications services, " Storey says.
Mr. Federighi later left for business-to-business software company Ariba Inc. before being recruited back to Apple in 2009.
And business -- small business owners are now a much higher proportion women than they used to be.
There will be better automatic translation, but in a lot of business-to-business e-commerce, language won't be very important.
So Jackpot's chairman and cofounder, Allan Tessler, decided to reinvent the company--as an incubator of Internet business-to-business companies.
On its differentiation strategy, Rakuten positioned itself as a virtual shopping mall, based on a business-to-business-to-consumer (B2B2C) model.
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For business-to-business Web applications, the risks of lagging performance can be even greater.
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But the glitter of e-tailing is fool's gold compared to cold hard cost savings through B2B (business-to-business) electronic commerce.
Hardest hit: Spanish-language newspapers, national newspapers and business-to-business magazines, which respectively plummeted 11%, 9.5% and 5.9%, year over year.
We're business-to-business and not business-to-consumer like Google, so it's not a direct competition.
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Paper checks remain the dominant method for paying consumer bills and are also extensively used in retail and business-to-business payments.
Information technology (IT) followed with women representing 12 percent of business-to-business IT investors and 11 percent of consumer IT investors.
Mr. Quelch: I think that Chinese companies will add value initially in the B-to-B (business-to-business) sector, not the B-to-C (business-to-consumer) sector.
But now "we don't need to dig into personal savings to support the business -- the business supports itself, " she said.
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So in 2003, he jumped from an in-your-face consumer business to the obscure world of industrial gases, a purely business-to-business activity.
Much of the gain would come from a state sales tax on "business-to-business" purchases like legal, accounting, banking and printing costs.
Even if your business is very small, like a home-based business or solo-preneur business, are there disconnects between you and your staff?
While YouSendIt now also has personal file syncing, YouSendIt started as a business-to-business communication tool and has maintained that focus, Koon says.
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