e-commerce

Type of business industry usually conducted over the Internet

Entitytype of business or company automationQ484847

Also known as eCommerce · electronic commerce · E-Commerce · online commerce · Internet commerce · e-business

Instance of: type of business or company
, automation
Subclass of: electronic business
, trade
, Internet Business
Part of: electronic business

Overview

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E-commerce refers to commercial activities including the electronic buying or selling products and services which are conducted on online platforms or over the Internet. E-commerce draws on technologies such as mobile commerce, electronic funds transfer, supply chain management, Internet marketing, online transaction processing, electronic data interchange (EDI), inventory management systems, and automated data collection systems. E-commerce is a part of retail. It is the largest segment of the electronics industry and is in turn driven by the technological advances of the semiconductor industry.

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Opposite of: brick and mortar trading
Different from: electronic trading
Social media followers: 312,183(May 23, 2023) subreddit: ecommerce
Class of object(s) of occurrence: business process

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AIDB. (2026). e-commerce (Q484847). Retrieved from https://aidb.si/e/e-commerce-Q484847