====== Electronic Commerce (e-Commerce) ======
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**e-Commerce** (**Electronic Commerce**) is the buying and selling of goods and services, or the transmitting of funds or data, over an electronic network, primarily the internet. These business transactions occur either as business-to-business (B2B), business-to-consumer (B2C), consumer-to-consumer or consumer-to-business. The terms e-commerce and e-business are often used interchangeably. The term e-tail is also sometimes used in reference to the transactional processes that make up online retail shopping.

Source: [[https://www.techtarget.com/searchcio/definition/e-commerce ]]


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