The writing is on the PC screen: Suppliers can wise up and sell what consumers want to buy on the Web--or they can be fraidy-cats and watch someone else run off with their business.
By showing ads for products that it may not actually sell on its own website, Amazon establishes itself as a starting point for consumers looking to buy something on the Web.
You can buy Rubbermaid on the Web--but you must visit walmart.com to do it.
"Worries about online privacy are one of the most frequent reasons for why people don't buy goods and services on the Web, " Reding wrote in February.
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Starting Sunday, Sept. 20, you can buy Backspacer on the Pearl Jam Web site, on iTunes, on Xbox's Rock Band game, as a Verizon ringtone or at Target.
Sometimes web sites buy stolen prototypes and put t hem on the web.
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The New York-based outfit enables businesses to buy and sell from each other on the Web.
Siminoff's small but fast-growing firm, Efficient Frontier, uses dauntingly complex calculations to help its clients get a better return on the ads they buy on Web search engines.
The folks at Levi may offer a sop to the stores: It would like to emblazon Levi's banners on the retailers' own Web sites and pay them a commission when their customers buy new duds at the jeansmaker's sites.
Net versions of its word-processing and spreadsheet applications to run on the Web as services that people buy through subscriptions.
To reverse this, Best Buy vows greater attention on tying Web and mobile shopping with the in-store experience.
Google's new Android Market web store is a pretty awesome and simple idea in theory -- browse and buy apps through the web, hit install, and watch them appear on your Android phone or tablet.
For now these members must buy their gear through the co-op's catalogs or on its rapidly growing Web site (www.rei.com ).
Why buy newspapers when you can get up-to-the-minute news on the web?
Best Buy customers, for example, can track their rewards points on the company's Web site but can't count online purchases toward accumulating those points.
Most small companies now buy supplies, pay bills and manage payroll on Web-based services, according to the National Small Business Association, a Washington, D.
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