The index was founded at the University of Michigan and gets support from ForeSee for its e-commerce and e-business rankings.
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).
Business-to-business e-commerce, or e-business, is a different story.
BT, first in its mobile-telecoms division, then as a pioneer of the group's business-to-business e-commerce efforts.
There will be better automatic translation, but in a lot of business-to-business e-commerce, language won't be very important.
So audience ought to work in business-to-business e-commerce as well, right?
Hard numbers are hard to come by because the company doesn't break out its e-commerce business, but the site is in the top ten in terms of visitors to e-tail sites, and its catalog is always expanding.
The company operates about 249 retail stores, an on-line e-commerce business, and a wholesale business selling t-shirts and casual wear to distributors and screen printers.
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And also the digital book business is very important for an e-commerce business.
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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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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.
If Mr Blair wants new female faces in his cabinet, an obvious choice is Patricia Hewitt , the energetic 52-year-old minister responsible for small business and e-commerce at the Department of Trade and Industry.
He quit his job as director of the business-to-business segment at e-commerce software maker Open Market to launch PurchasingCenter, warning his wife to expect lean months with no salary.
In other words, despite everything the dot-coms did to screw up the business, the e-commerce market is continuing to cook along, meeting all of the most optimistic predictions for explosive growth.
That deal may furnish Lawson with the right contacts to develop its own e-commerce business.
It plans to hire specifically for e-commerce, business analytics, application development, engineering and project management areas.
Sales declined by 16% to 2.2 billion yuan, amid a weak performance by its franchise stores and e-commerce business.
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The radical new software and e-commerce business models that will follow in their wake can only be guessed at.
Brookstone also operates an e-commerce business that includes the Brookstone catalog and Brookstone.com.
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What remained, he concluded, was a viable information and e-commerce business that needed better execution and a few key acquisitions to succeed.
My nomination is Jeff Bezos, founder of the first e-commerce business to make a real splash, and still running Amazon 18 years on.
The company is also expanding its e-commerce business abroad and began serving online customers in Italy Greece, Spain and Portugal in the third quarter.
In recent quarters, we have also been deemphasizing our retail stores in order to focus on our e-commerce business and enhance our operational strength and customer service capabilities.
Revenue growth for Marketplaces, its core -e-commerce business was around 11%. eBay competes primarily with Google, Square, Intuit GoPayment and other competitors in the payments space, and Amazon in e-commerce.
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There is no doubt that Leeds is once again confident about itself, but for a city that has already seen two major industries disappear, the hope must be that the e-commerce business is here to stay.
It is interesting to note, however, that Neiman Marcus has leveraged its brand into an e-commerce business that is now a significant portion of total sales, and is growing nearly four times as fast as the store-based business.
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According to a PricewaterhouseCoopers survey, 70% of Asian CEOs expect e-commerce to recast their business.
Put another way, when the e-commerce standard is Amazon.com, small-business owners better bring some serious game.
And China's internet start-ups, such as Tencent (a social-networking service) and Alibaba (an e-commerce company), have had a genius for copying Western business models and adapting them to the Chinese market.
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