This way, customers could instantly buy outfits they've just seen sashaying down the catwalk.
Perhaps Mr. Chen is thinking of the thrum of stock markets and day traders, not always understanding the companies they instantly buy and sell.
Surveys suggested that auction participants were alienated by untrustworthy sellers and hidden shipping fees, and increasingly preferred the certainty of instantly buying items at a fixed price.
The market is getting more competitive with the advent of advertising exchanges, which allow advertisers to instantly buy advertising placement across a broad range of Web sites, which pushes down prices that online sites like Yahoo can charge.
But if tenants instantly buy those houses and walk off with a fat capital gain, what's the point Ministers' concerns centre on a number of practices, which, though not illegal, appear contrary to the spirit of the legislation.
What is different from the magazines is that the site soon will enable users to act upon those edicts by instantly buying the items they are told they must have.
And Paydiant, a company that develops mobile payment platforms for clients in the finance and retail industries, has created a technology for scanning a QR, or quick response, code off a television screen to redeem a coupon or instantly buy something a viewer fancies in a commercial or perhaps even during a television show.
On Tuesday MasterCard plans to announce a partnership with Condé Nast, the publisher of Vogue, Wired, Vanity Fair and other popular magazines, that will allow digital readers to instantly buy items described in an article or showcased in an advertisement by tapping a shopping cart icon on the page.
When appropriate, the doc can then prescribe medications customers can then instantly buy through Roman.
That could let you instantly buy and expense enterprise software add-ons, flights booked through Slack chat bots, and more.
