Security, Privacy & Other Non-monetary
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E-COMMERCE GOVERNANCE & GOING
GLOBAL NEWS ToC - E-tailers Fail To Cash In On European
Market
- Will Euro, Internet Change How Europeans Shop?
- Will TVs Jumpstart UK E-Commerce?
- Finland
pushes for EU e-commerce law
- Collecting Sales Tax Online
- E-Commerce Patent Wars Break Out
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E-tailers Fail To Cash In On European Market
According
to a new study by Jupiter Communications, Inc., neither U.S. nor European e-tailers
have moved aggressively to establish consumer relationships in the continent's
most sophisticated Web markets. Will
Euro, Internet Change How Europeans Shop?
Will Europeans from Finland
to Greece end up with similar tastes and shopping patterns once they pay in euros
and purchase products on the Internet? Will
TVs Jumpstart UK E-Commerce?
Earlier this week, an interactive TV
service began offering its UK customers e-commerce services ranging from shopping
to banking via their TVs. The service, which is known as Open, will instantly
allow 1 million viewers to pay their bills, buy groceries or even order dinner
by simply typing their orders on the portable keyboards hooked to their sets. Finland
pushes for EU e-commerce law
Finland, which currently holds the
European Union's rotating six-month presidency, is pushing for a new European
Union law setting the legal basis for electronic signatures and security for Internet
commerce. Collecting
Sales Tax Online
Two partners have devised a method for easier collection
of taxes on Internet sales. They say their method routes taxes directly from the
consumer to the government tax collectors. E-Commerce
Patent Wars Break Out
This week Priceline attacks the 800-pound
Microsoft gorilla for using the "name-your-own-price" business model,
and Amazon tries to clobber arch-enemy barnesandnoble.com for using the "1-click"
easy-to-buy technology. "These are the first shots in the e-commerce patent
wars," claims David Kline, co-author of the upcoming Rembrandts in the Attic:
Unlocking the Hidden Value of Patents. "The patent war is going to be bloody
and it's going to decide who the winners are in the Internet economy."
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