Four technology-related additions are 'tweet', 'social media', 'crowdsourcing' and 'm-commerce', words that should have been familiar to readers of this blog for years now.
The simple truth is that there is more commerce of words eastward across the Atlantic than westward because American power, wealth and culture loom larger in the world than British.
In America Groupon already tailors some offers depending on the sex, location and buying history of a subscriber.The next step is for Groupon to become a broader "platform for local commerce", in the words of Mr Solomon a bundle of services that make that market more efficient.
This spring, the Supreme Court — now housed in a building so ostentatious that Justice Louis Brandeis, who, before he was appointed to the bench, in 1916, was known as "the people's attorney," refused to move into his office — is debating whether the Affordable Care Act violates the Constitution, especially with regard to the word "commerce".
Two magic words: electronic commerce.
In other words, e-commerce companies will be able to build secure private networks with fine-grained access control that allow customers to see exactly the information that they are supposed to.
Payments giant PayPal posted strong Q1 earnings today, counter balancing some of the weaker showings from other tech stocks yesterday and outstripping the overall growth rate of e-commerce, in its own words.
Dubin added that he actually dislikes calling his company a subscription service — obviously, it's offering a subscription, but he prefers to think of it as "membership commerce": "Membership, as a word, suggests that you're on the inside looking out.
Enter SaaSy, a company launching this week that wants to take the process of building, managing, and improving an e-commerce system (in other words, the hassle) out of your hands to allow you to focus exclusively on the development and marketing of your subscription-based service.
BEFORE 1977, the words "cricket" and "commerce" had never been put together.
Normally, you use Guide du Routard as your travel guide, but today there is still a gulf between travel guides and online travel-booking sites in other words, content and commerce are fragmented.
