But, e-commerce businesses have no way to identify what products are popular off of their domain.
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These are mostly e-commerce businesses, selling things like domain names and web hosting.
For example, we are seeing interesting second-generation e-commerce businesses that have direct revenue and margin streams (not dependent on monetizing an audience).
In the highest-performing e-commerce businesses mobile, social, globalization, cloud and legacy order management systems are all galvanized around that common goal: delight the customer and earn their trust.
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Its stock is yet another victim of the volatility in the technology sector, which has swung from highs to lows on concerns about the viability of e-commerce businesses.
And it comes as a growing number of e-commerce businesses are pursuing mergers, or operational cutbacks, to avoid joining the likes of Boo.com and eToys on the list of failed e-tailers.
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Although Asian consumers are ill-prepared for e-commerce, its businesses stand to gain far more than their western counterparts.
One of the group's 25 business units, Alibaba.com, an e-commerce platform for small businesses, went public on the Hong Kong Stock Exchange in 2007, before Mr. Ma took it private again last year. (The rest of the group's units, including Taobao, Tmall and Alipay, have never gone public.) The financial crisis hurt Alibaba.com, he says, and it needed major changes.
The future of e-commerce looks promising for small businesses.
There is also still a steady flow of businesses investigating e-commerce as an alternative to costly retail premises.
Ma is part of a generation of Chinese Internet entrepreneurs who built successful businesses in e-commerce, entertainment, search and other fields.
To escalate the impact of e-commerce, there are multiple ways that businesses can integrate personal interactions with digital technologies.
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E-commerce also allows unknown firms to establish new businesses cheaply and rapidly, and to compete with old-timers.
On the earnings call, Mr. Zuckerberg cautioned investors to temper expectations on some of Facebook's new businesses, like its Gifts e-commerce store.
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As the base of Indian e-commerce grows, it will be these focused, high margin businesses that will generate the steadiest returns for investors.
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This will make it easier and cheaper to process the large volume of payments between the millions of customers and hundreds of businesses that Ito-Yokado hopes its e-commerce venture will attract.
Note: Chinese businesses such as computer brand Lenovo, e-commerce leader Alibaba, telecom hardware giant Huawei, and auto parts maker Wanxiang have looked in recent years to tap into the U.S. marketplace and resources.
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In terms of e-commerce, the original excitement was all about B2C, sites in which businesses, like Amazon.com, targeted consumers, like you and me.
Asia's slowness on the Net means that many companies and businesses had their names snaffled up before the Net and e-commerce entered the region's collective conscience.
Businesses are scrambling to make sense of the data avalanche brought on by e-commerce.
Their core businesses are gaming, online search, web 2.0, and e-commerce.
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To protect their businesses, video chains are competing to develop their own video-on-demand and e-commerce systems.
These businesses are usually run out of the home, and range the gamut from consulting services to e-commerce.
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