Forerunner focuses on both consumer-facing e-commerce startups and on technology companies that support e-commerce.
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The Japanese e-commerce giant launched its e-commerce service in Malaysia on November 1, 2012.
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The four 'em's of e-learning, e-government, e-commerce, e-medicine are old hat to so many in the West.
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Other postponed IT programs include customer relationship management (25 percent), sales-force automation (22 percent), business-to-business e-commerce (18 percent) and business-to-consumer e-commerce (15 percent).
Unlike the original e-commerce model, new e-commerce startups are personalized and use new social tools to connect with consumers, but still have strong brands, she says.
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Business-to-business e-commerce, or e-business, is a different story.
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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EBay has made several recent e-commerce acquisitions, such as e-commerce platform GSI Commerce Inc. and Milo Inc.
The index was founded at the University of Michigan and gets support from ForeSee for its e-commerce and e-business rankings.
Cooper said he joined the fashion site because of his appetite for e-commerce (he helped develop e-commerce systems for both the NHL and NFL).
Rise of e-commerce and e-reading.
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As I have written, this gift-giving service is a move by Facebook into the e-commerce market, and likely a sign of more e-commerce moves to come.
Will e-commerce in China overtake U.S. e-commerce in five years, as PwC has predicted, and will China become the largest IPO market this year?
Alibaba Group is the dominant e-commerce player in China today and the entire e-commerce sector there is going to go up 5x in the next 4 years.
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Taobao is the biggest e-commerce website in China, handling 75% of e-commerce transactions as of the second quarter, according to Analysys International.
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It is the Goliath of the Web, with search, e-mail, e-commerce, instant messaging, classified ads, and even its own virtual planet with Google Earth -- all adding up to one mega-market cap.
With the Kindle Fire, Amazon would be expected to show significant upsides to its e-content and e-commerce offerings, especially the Amazon Prime and Instant Video service which were heavily promoted along with the tablet launch.
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Not only does boosting its security technology increase its integrity among users as an e-commerce hub, e-signature technology could help Google (NASDAQ:GOOG) develop its mobile payment capabilities to compete.
Amazon competes in the e-commerce and e-content space with companies such as eBay and Apple.
This week, the group said it will bundle its disparate e-commerce activities into a single entity, to be called Bertelsmann E-Commerce Group.
For now Facebook will likely focus on e-commerce for gifts, not wanting to take on the entire e-commerce challenge and all the logistics that go along with it.
Despite the smaller displays of mobile telephones and devices such as the PalmPilot, users will be able to send and receive e-mails, perform e-commerce transactions and get real-time updates on such things as share prices, travel, weather, news and sporting events.
Coupled with access to our team of experts in Japan and over 15 years of e-commerce leadership and expertise, we are ideally placed to offer the best of e-commerce to both our merchants and consumers.
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While recently waiting to have his hair cut, Timothy Lytle, 26, received an e-mail from a client--an e-commerce Web site whose downloading function had crashed.
Teen apparel retailer Aeropostale is looking to revamp its m-commerce (e-commerce through mobile) channel to strengthen its direct-to-consumer business.
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M-commerce, which is e-commerce conducted from a mobile phone or tablet.
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While bricks-and-mortar retailers only have to decide whether to accept checks and major credit cards, e-commerce is open to all sorts of other payment possibilities--including e-checks, PayPal and transactions in currencies other than the dollar.
All four firms are adapting to diminished traffic in letters and important documents because of e-mail, and the growing demand for parcel delivery to end-consumers generated by e-commerce sites such as Amazon.
"We determined that running a world-class e-commerce site was unaffordable, " says a Levi spokesman.
BT, first in its mobile-telecoms division, then as a pioneer of the group's business-to-business e-commerce efforts.
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