Greater emphasis will be placed on on-site content control, content access, product usage, and transparency in publisher-consumer exchanges.
To some extent, Mr. Baer and other experts said, the experience with the slightly older business-to-consumer exchanges is instructive of antitrust issues confronting the business-to-business marketplace.
With the dawn of radio, the authors say, this advertiser-consumer exchange evolved into a "great unwritten contract".
To this end, the management system has been frequently proposed in form of an electronic market in which producers and consumers exchange energy blocks so that the consumption and production are continuously balanced.
A little birdie wearing the red of Circuit City whispered into Giz's ear, saying that the electronics retailer will let consumers exchange their recently purchased HD DVD player for a shiny new Blu-ray one.
Consumer level exchanges charge between 50 to 100 basis points on each trade.
Travelex, which is majority owned by the private equity firm Apax Partners, has been streamlining under its new chief executive, Peter Jackson, in order to focus on its consumer foreign-exchange business and to pay down debt.
Chris Brooks, technical director of industry group the UK Cartridge Remanufacturers Association, is more forthright: "The big printer companies do all they can to squeeze ever-increasing amounts of cash out of the poor consumer in exchange for less ink".
Privately held Taobao, Alibaba's online consumer retail exchange, earnedan estimated $36 million on $640 million in sales in 2010, says Goldman Sachs.
The TCI deal addresses the consumer local exchange market by locking up all TCI customers' last miles, i.e., cable lines into 33 million subscribers' homes.
Consumer Staples Select Sector SPDR (XLP): Additional bullishness was seen on the consumer staples exchange-traded fund Friday in a miniature repeat performance of the rash of call buying observed Thursday.
