Also on Wednesday, the e-commerce development group, bizzbuild.com, announced the sale of its subsidiary Value Direct to Home Electrical Direct.

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Crime may yet prove the biggest threat to the development of e-commerce.

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And, in spite of Dr. Mahathir's grand Muli-Media Corridor idea, the country is also lagging behind much of developed Asia in technology, Internet development, e-commerce etc.

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The paper outlines a policy to combat computer crime and describes the mechanisms necessary to achieve this without hindering rapid development of e-commerce in the EU or affecting citizens' fundamental right to privacy.

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It plans to hire specifically for e-commerce, business analytics, application development, engineering and project management areas.

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Others think that auctions will force up mobile-telephony prices, because telecoms firms will pass on the costs, so slowing the development of mobile e-commerce.

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If it seems hard for anyone to make himself heard amid this cacophony, that is largely because e-commerce is at such an early stage of development.

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In markets like India, e-commerce, a key online advertising driver, is at an earlier stage of development.

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At a December 1997 meeting, Steve asked Miles Gilburne (AOL's senior vice president, corporate development) and me to see about working together and we eventually focused on e-commerce.

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Their way may be made easier by novel drug-development technologies, such as pharmacogenomics, and new marketing methods, such as e-commerce, which will allow them to sell tailored drugs without the trappings of size.

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