That's what faced Chase Franklin, chief executive of Qpass, an e-commerce services company, when he volunteered last year.
Founded in 1985, AOL has transformed itself from an online service to a provider of interactive services, Internet technologies and e-commerce services.
The deal gives Nextlink a toehold in Europe, high-speed data lines, web-hosting and e-commerce services and the right to haul traffic for Internet service providers.
Consider too the e-commerce services that online shoppers (a growing group) value.
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With GPS and location-based e-commerce services, retailers could send a quick coupon alert to the iWatch when a user passes through the store.
The text messaging data comes from Sybase 365, a California-based provider of mobile messaging and commerce services that was acquired by business software giant SAP last year.
And Agency.com is working with London-based Carphone Warehouse, the largest European wholesaler of mobile phones, to create a customizable wireless portal that delivers weather forecasts, local news and e-commerce services to wireless subscribers.
But the claim that consumers are shying away from Internet commerce and services does not comport with actual consumer behavior.
"The International Finance Center is Hong Kong's premier IT address, " says Lane Leskela, research director for e-commerce intelligence services at Gartner Group (Asia Pacific).
"The operating success of this year is based on sustainable and profitable subscriber growth, longer usage times and more revenues in advertising, e-commerce and services, " the company said in a statement.
These include telecommunications, e-commerce, financial services, health care, real estate, automotive, and travel.
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The year should see investments doubling overall, with a focus on m-commerce and mobile services for food delivery, mobile learning, and even mobile dating.
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Shares in the provider of transportation, e-commerce and business services have less than one week to go before the Memphis, Tennessee-based company is scheduled to report first-quarter earnings.
On Thursday, a coalition of 14 business organizations including the U.S. Chamber of Commerce, Financial Services Roundtable, Consumer Electronics Association and the Organization for International Investment sent a letter to members of Congress urging them to oppose the measure, saying it violates the current system of U.S. tax treaties.
Before Apple bought it, Morgenthaler says, the plans at Siri were to build out a platform of services in e-commerce and access to a wide range of services on the Internet.
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Indices for telecommunications, radio, television and satellite transmission services, hotel service, wholesale trade, e-commerce, software and IT services, and water transport all stayed at 60.
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For millennia, progress in infrastructure came from the more effective movement of the commerce in goods and services.
This includes mobile payment, enterprise productivity and mobile banking applications, as well as online commerce and premium content services.
The biggest overseers and meddlers are the departments of Treasury, Health and Human Services, Commerce, and Agriculture, and the Environmental Protection Agency.
One obstacle is that on line commerce in goods and services will be denied to many Chinese simply because so few yet hold credit cards.
"The whole potential of the Internet is not yet fully exploited in terms of e-commerce and other interactive services, " the Commission said in a statement.
They also have to be profitable for more than two years and have been providing information technology services for e-commerce companies for the same length of time till the day they apply for the services.
Eventually, we commercialized it as two very successful services, Commerce Intelligence and Commerce Coalition.
Subsequently, Amazon developed a broader infrastructure for any type of digital properties, not just e-commerce, called Amazon Web Services.
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The plan was opposed by the California Chamber of Commerce and by the financial services industry.
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He's CEO of ShopRunner, a subsidiary of e-tail-services company GSI Commerce that recently launched a Prime-like service for a collection of offline retailers.
Ovi will be offered alongside their own services, and operators will take a cut of the revenues which Nokia hopes to make from advertising, e-commerce and subscriptions to premium services.
But delegates did begin to lay plans for cross-border communication and cooperation in the event of major meltdowns: work-arounds so commerce can continue and emergency services can be provided if systems collapse.
Probably not if your business is retail, financial services, e-commerce, healthcare, state or local government.
These businesses are usually run out of the home, and range the gamut from consulting services to e-commerce.
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