The trade association for e-cigarettes, the Electronic Cigarette Industry Trade Association, says they make no medicinal claims for their product.
Last September, the New York brokerage Cantor Fitzgerald teamed up with the New York Cotton Exchange to develop an electronic exchange to trade American government-bond futures, striking at the core of the Board of Trade's franchise.
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Even as free trade and electronic communications bring the world closer together, kinship still counts.
The joke is that with so much of the trade now electronic and at other marketplaces, the trading floor on Wall Street is primarily a backdrop for CNBC.
Recently the owner was on the phone trying to get a wireless connection to enable electronic traders to ply their trade by juggling laptops alongside their beers.
Two years ago, the Chicago Board of Trade introduced an electronic gold futures contract and has parlayed it into a 19% share of the trading in gold futures.
Electronic Buyers News, a trade publication, estimates that Xilinx has 29% of the market for programmable logic chips, and Altera, also based in San Jose, has about 25%.
"In the past few years, we've been getting calls from people interested in opening their own stores, " says Carrie Dieterich, vice president of marketing and industry relations at the Electronic Merchants Association, the trade association for the home entertainment industry.
Trish Wexler, a spokeswoman for the Electronic Payments Coalition, a trade group that lobbied against the Durbin amendment on behalf of Visa, MasterCard and numerous banks, said Thursday she couldn't confirm the specifics of the McCrohan report, but said changes to merchant fees should be expected as a result of the new rules.
Most of the online firms are now rapidly transforming themselves from low-cost trade-executors into electronic financial-service companies offering a full range of retail products, from share-trading to insurance.
When an electronic order has a match, the trade takes two-tenths of a second or less to complete.
Mrs Cantor is now working with the Chicago Board of Trade to set up an electronic rival to Cantor's bond exchange.
So far, eBay has successfully maintained that, as an electronic platform over which individuals come to trade, it cannot be held responsible for verifying the items being sold.
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The app allows medical providers to trade their clipboards for (electronic) tablets, which present them a clean dashboard that lets them drill down into data such as medical history, medications (and allergies), X-rays and vital signs.
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"We believe the markets will be better when all securities trade most often in all-electronic markets, " he says.
In the past year nine ECNs (electronic communications networks) have sprung up to trade shares online. (E-Trade, Ameritrade and the like are more akin to brokerage firms.) Island ECN, backed merely by a phalanx of Dell PCs and a broker license, now clears 12% of Nasdaq's transactions.
In the past year nine ECNs (electronic communications networks) have sprung up to trade shares online. (E-Trade, Ameritrade and the like are more akin to brokerage firms.) Island ECN, backed merely by a phalanx of Dell PCs and a broker license, now clears one-quarter of Nasdaq's trades and 12% of the transactions.
The Electronic Entertainment Expo, or E3, is the trade show for the video and computer games industry.
Mergers between stalwarts NYSE and Nasdaq Stock Market and electronic exchanges Archipelago and Inet last year threatened extinction for the nation's regional stock exchanges, which have struggled to attract trade order flow with the boom in electronic trading.
Electronic trading and the proliferation of computer-based trade execution programs has given birth to these companies and so-called dark pools, which help brokers or asset management firms move huge blocks of shares at once without tipping off the markets.
Mergers between stalwarts NYSE and Nasdaq Stock Market (nasdaq: NDAQ - news - people ) and electronic exchanges Archipelago and Inet last year threatened extinction for the nation's regional stock exchanges, which have struggled to attract trade order flow with the boom in electronic trading.
The U.S. Fish and Wildlife Service and Justice Department have launched "Operation Crash" using undercover agents and electronic surveillance in an effort to stop the black market trade in rhino horns, which has led to poaching and has reduced the world's rhino population by more than 90 percent since 1970.
The CAN-SPAM Act, which is enforced by the Federal Trade Commission, established our first national standards for sending electronic mail.
So the rules that will be devised for electronic commerce may affect the choice between physical and digital methods of trade.
This presents both Thomson Reuters and Bloomberg with an opportunity to gather and sell data on these markets and perhaps to capture a share of the trade by linking banks and their clients through their own electronic trading platforms.
Many law and security firms have created electronic specialities to deal with the potential loss of everything from highly protected trade secrets, to credit card theft.
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The Federal Reserve Bank of New York, just three blocks from the World Trade Center, remained open throughout the day, though it shifted its electronic funds transfer and security transfer system to backup computers at the Federal Reserve Regional Bank in Richmond, Virginia.
The Home Office's policy document, for example, makes no reference to the fact that the Department of Trade and Industry has just published its own draft bill on the interception of electronic communications.
The electronic bond market also has rival bids from Deutsche Boerse as well as the Chicago Board of Trade, data group Thomson and private equity group Carlyle.
And in the United States, the Electronic Privacy Information Centre, a non-profit group, has asked America's Federal Trade Commission to see if Facebook's approach to privacy violates consumer-protection laws.
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