electronic commerce

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electronic commerce - Free On-line Dictionary of Computing (26 May 2007) :

  electronic commerce
  e-commerce
  
     <application, communications> (EC) The conducting of business
     communication and transactions over networks and through
     computers.  As most restrictively defined, electronic commerce
     is the buying and selling of goods and services, and the
     transfer of funds, through digital communications.  However EC
     also includes all inter-company and intra-company functions
     (such as marketing, finance, manufacturing, selling, and
     negotiation) that enable commerce and use electronic mail,
     EDI, file transfer, fax, video conferencing, workflow,
     or interaction with a remote computer.
  
     Electronic commerce also includes buying and selling over the
     World-Wide Web and the Internet, electronic funds transfer
     , smart cards, digital cash (e.g. Mondex), and all
     other ways of doing business over digital networks.
  
     [Electronic Commerce Dictionary].
  
     (1995-10-08)