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.
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.
"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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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.
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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Easier, cheaper online-payment services will boost e-commerce in the Middle East.
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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"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.
His Shin Group of companies, (see table), is involved in paging, mobile-phone services, Internet connections and e-commerce.
Now in 49 markets, it plans to add 11 more by year-end, offering a full suite of e-commerce, Web hosting and high-speed data services.
Subsequently, Amazon developed a broader infrastructure for any type of digital properties, not just e-commerce, called Amazon Web Services.
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Now in 49 markets, it plans to add 11 more by year-end, offering a full suite of e-commerce, web-hosting and high-speed data services.
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.
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.
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.
Services, E-Commerce, Energy, Banking, Retail are some examples.
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Although fast-growing, the regional e-commerce market is hampered by low credit-card use and poor postal services.
In addition to its traditional services of letter and parcel delivery, the Post Office now provides services such as e-commerce fulfilment, billing and customer management, logistics and warehousing.
Another important building block of e-commerce infrastructure involves activities described by Web Services Description Language, or WSDL. Oriental Motor, a Japanese distributor of industrial motors, relies on one of these programs to update the inventories and prices of the many parts it offers online.
The hub brings employees from across the company together, including e-commerce, customer care, in-flight services, IT and marketing.
The company provides products that help companies with their suite of applications, including accounting, customer relationship management, professional services automation, and e-commerce.
TellMe has opted for an advertising-supported business model, but also intends to charge e-commerce sites for building and maintaining their voice services and it wants to take a cut on every purchase that is made through its system.
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