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).
He says it is more interesting to take consumer e-mail and other services to the enterprise.
Then there is consumer e-waste - people here love gadgets, and love to change them regularly.
But there may be some maneuvering room left for newcomers in business to consumer e-commerce, he adds.
It has expanded in consumer e-commerce with its Taobao and Tmall platforms, which are among the world's busiest online outlets.
It runs the consumer e-mail service for dozens of carriers worldwide and recently bought a Web photo- and video-sharing site called Twango.
The technology magazine Red Herring sponsors a workshop on attracting investment, there are keynote speeches from senior management figures at Intel, Digital, Citicorp and Cisco Systems and Intel unveils "e-business solutions and consumer applications" on its stand, its first-ever appearance in the five-year history of the show.
Chinese internet research consultancy, iResearch, estimates that consumer-to-consumer represented more than 87% of the Chinese e-commerce market last year.
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The excitement now is in wireless e-commerce, in embedded consumer products and in network processors.
An e-mail could alert a consumer who didn't apply for a new card that Sears Roebuck (nyse: S - news - people ) or Citigroup (nyse: C - news - people ) checked his credit in connection with a new card application, a possible sign of identity theft.
"We've used our expertise to create a high-quality e-book with today's on-the-go consumer in mind, " said Young Bae, director of display marketing, Samsung Information Technology Division.
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Likewise, our first consumer data on e-cigarettes shows that 44% of smokers who used one of these devices were also Millennials.
Chinese police last month detained four people suspected of trying to obtain consumer data from e-commerce site 360buy.com, which is operated by Beijing Jingdong Century Trading Co.
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We then started to incorporate the online outreach and response experience in our day to day operations to offer more complete marketing solutions (from consumer responses to e-mail signatures).
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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"We felt that working with Taobao Mall offered the best approach to reaching out to more consumers because it is so clearly the most influential online business-to-consumer sales channel, " said Christophe Bezu, chief e-commerce officer for Adidas, in an email.
They said they would share some consumer data about buying e-books.
This more recent data--courtesy of Spending Pulse, the economic research arm of MasterCard (nyse: MA - news - people ) WorldWide--divides U.S. consumer discretionary spending into eight buckets: air travel, e-commerce, electronics, furniture, lodging (as in hotels, not primary residences), apparel, luxury (excluding jewelry) and restaurants.
E-cigarettes are currently classed as a general consumer product and regulated by trading standards.
Sales of e-readers doubled last year, and the Consumer Electronics Association, which stages CES, predicts they will double again in 2010.
PricewaterhouseCoopers, a consultancy, reckons e-books will represent about 6% of consumer book sales in North America by 2013, up from 1.5% last year (see chart).
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Data collected on the sales of physical books records around 90-95% of all consumer sales in the UK, but is less robust for the e-book market.
Our rules allow for e-hail now, and the only question is, do we embrace these new services and ensure that consumer protections are in place, or listen to obstructionists and watch e-hail apps proliferate without any regulatory input.
U.S. economic data due for release Friday includes the Empire State manufacturing survey, Treasury international capital data, industrial production and capacity utilization, the University of Michigan consumer sentiment survey, and quarterly e-commerce retail sales.
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But issues such as privacy or consumer protection that could undermine support for e-commerce need a different answer, albeit one that draws on laws and policies developed in the offline world.
It will also update the law to introduce new protection for consumer who buy digital content, such as e-books, digital music, games and software.
Glimpses of the third generation are on display this week at the International Consumer Electronics Show, where manufacturers are previewing e-readers with color screens, interactive graphics and magazine-style layouts.
"Together, we've developed the most technologically advanced recliner to date and have created a way for every consumer to be comfortable with interactive television, e-mail, and the Internet, " bragged Kevin R.
Vendors of all sizes are here in Las Vegas introducing products they hope will capitalize on piqued consumer interest and the predicted growth in the e-book market in the year ahead.
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