Now they are increasing their focus on technology consumers can use to make purchases by simply entering a password or other easy-to-remember information on an e-commerce website, or by tapping a smartphone against a merchant payment terminal instead of swiping a physical card.
Modeled after the information and e-commerce transactions available on the Web, the latest in information technology starts with a telephone number that you'll be able to dial to reach a computer that hears and guides your requests and answers them using voice-recognition technology.
What remained, he concluded, was a viable information and e-commerce business that needed better execution and a few key acquisitions to succeed.
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.
It is not uncommon for a retailer to have a set of systems for retail point-of-sale, another for e-commerce and yet another for the call center, with information entered and stored differently and in different formats in each case.
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To make a purchase on a website, a MasterPass user would enter a password on the checkout page of a merchant who has installed the service as a payment option instead of typing in their card number, security code and other information that experts say slows down e-commerce transactions.
It contains all the usual credit information that you otherwise must type into e-commerce sites over and over.
But as long as the internet continues to deliver price and product information quickly, cheaply and securely, e-commerce will continue to grow.
For example, if you are an e-commerce company doing online transactions and storing data such as credit card information, you are considered high risk for data breach and thus subject to higher premiums.
Programmers, developers, bloggers, hackers, information architects, web advertising execs, social media consultants, e-commerce fulfillment experts, web videographers, etc.
Another still-unresolved tension among e-commerce architects is the choice between choreography and orchestration, both of which address how information moves around among, say, different companies.
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