The auction giant can hardly be considered representative of the electronic-commerce sector, since eBay acts only as a service matching buyers and sellers, rather than stocking and selling its own inventory.
The decision in Granholm v. Heald suggests a Supreme Court that is prepared to use the dormant commerce clause to protect electronic commerce, a growing sector of the economy threatened by a patchwork of state regulations and the failure of the federal government to take sufficient action on the global front.
Since the mid-1990s one of the most rapidly growing retail sectors, known as electronic commerce, or e-commerce, involves the use of the Internet and proprietary networks to facilitate business-to-business, consumer, and auction sales of everything imaginable from computers and electronics to books, recordings, automobiles, and real estate.
Since the mid-1990s one of the most rapidly growing retail sectors has been electronic commerce, involving use of the Internet and proprietary networks to facilitate business-to-business, consumer, and auction sales of everything imaginable from computers and electronics to books, recordings, automobiles, and real estate.
New sectors, such as electronic commerce, have developed in the last couple of decades, and they raise new questions.
Electronic commerce software company Sterling Commerce se jumped 18% after posting better-than-expected earnings.
In the 1990s, new Web-based technologies were enabling electronic commerce in the manufacturing and financial services sectors.
From the start, the hurdles facing electronic commerce have been how to move electrons.
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So too with electronic commerce.
Electronic commerce / Scott F. Landis.
