Figures are scarce for security breaches at e-commerce sites, in part because companies are reluctant to publicize such incidents, and because consumers tend to report credit card problems directly to even tighter-lipped card issuers.
The prospects of the two measures being enacted and nudging the federal bureaucracy that has long regulated the railroads and interstate commerce cannot be gauged, in part because there is no precedent.
It is expected to face legal challenges, in particular on the grounds that it hinders interstate commerce, but the state attorney general has testified that he believes the bill can withstand them, in part because the commerce clause in the United States Constitution allows an exception for states protecting the basic health and safety of their citizens.
Europeans have been somewhat slow to embrace online commerce, in large part because of cross-border issues, including differences in taxation and in the quality of shipping.
The event covered the areas of education, health, entertainment, communication and – in part because I insisted – commerce (which ended up being a major theme).
E-commerce is a space with a lot of potential, in part because it's such a data-rich industry, and, there's some momentum around AI gathering already.
Though President Richard M. Nixon once sought to have Maurice Stans, his commerce secretary, take the lead on trade, the effort failed in part because Congress had designated the trade representative's office as the responsible body for negotiating trade agreements.
Subscription commerce has been a popular business model over the last five years, in part because it creates predictable revenue.
The rapid growth of the Internet and electronic commerce (e-commerce) represented some of the most challenging new issues in the international trade arena, in part because many countries were slow to adopt bilateral free-trade agreements that included provisions covering e-commerce.
The old hierarchical schemes didn't work very well on this stuff, in part because it ignored the distinction between art and commerce that had grounded the high-low system.
