Year 2000 E-Commerce Predictions
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ECnow.com 2000 trends: Year 2000 E-Commerce Predictions
GOVERNANCE
& GOING GLOBAL NEWS
ToC
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Is 2000 The Year of International
E-Commerce?
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Europe Closing E-Commerce Gap With
U.S.
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Net Retailers Face A Taxing Question
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Making E-Contracts Count
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E-Commerce Now A Top Presidential
Campaign Issue
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Survey: UK Online Retailers Disappoint
Customers
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International Group Plans Rules for
Consumers Online
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Online Pizza in the U.K.
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International body adopts e-commerce
protections
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'Locusts' Infesting E-Commerce
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E-Commerce Tax Plan Summaries
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Europe Offers Special Challenges
for Net Retailers
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WTO agreed on short-term Net tax
ban, U.S. official says
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Is
2000 The Year of International E-Commerce?
When the World Trade Organization WTOgave e-commerce it's
blessing by extending the moratorium on Internet taxes, it may have signaled the
next big step in online consumer spending.
Europe Closing E-Commerce Gap
With U.S.
According to a report released today by Forrester Research,
Europe's Internet commerce will grow by more than 100 percent per year for the
next five years and will reach annual online trade of 1.6 trillion Euros by 2004.
Net
Retailers Face A Taxing Question
Are online stores obligated to charge sales tax on purchases?
It depends on who you ask.
Making
E-Contracts Count
In the first legislation of its kind in Canada, and probably
North America, a legal framework for e-commerce is proposed that would give online
transactions and contracts the same legal protections as those on paper.
E-Commerce
Now A Top Presidential Campaign Issue
As the five front-running candidates for the U.S. presidency
shift their campaigns into high gear, electronic commerce is joining education
and campaign finance reform among the more popular topics of debate.
Survey: UK Online Retailers Disappoint
Customers
Online Christmas shoppers may be shocked to find that some
of the biggest Internet retailers are failing their customers in the festive period,
according to research from marketing consultants Dial Internet on Wednesday.
International
Group Plans Rules for Consumers Online
An international council on Thursday is expected to adopt
a set of guidelines that tries to put in place the first global framework of consumer
protections for the Internet.
Online Pizza in the U.K.
Domino's Pizza U.K., an independent
franchise of the No. 2 American pizza chain, is set to launch a British online
delivery service next week, for the "significant number of PC users who are
also pizza eaters."
International
body adopts e-commerce protections
In the midst of the holiday shopping season, a forum of
29 nations today adopted guidelines they hope will provide broader protections
for online consumers, from settling complaints over faulty products to curbing
e-commerce fraud.
'Locusts'
Infesting E-Commerce
International online law enforcers warned Tuesday they
were seriously behind in tackling Internet crime, and said cybercrime might prove
a major threat to countries as well as businesses.
E-Commerce
Tax Plan Summaries
About thirty plans for changing the country's systems of
state and local tax have been submitted to the Advisory Commission on Electronic
Commerce. This document contains brief summaries of most of the plans.
Europe
Offers Special Challenges for Net Retailers
Across Europe, retailers are hoping that this will be a
breakthrough period for electronic commerce. But merchants in Europe have already
found that varied laws, languages and customs are posing challenges that their
American counterparts have largely not had to face.
WTO
agreed on short-term Net tax ban, U.S. official says
World Trade Organization ministers are in agreement that
the current tax moratorium on sales over the Internet should be extended for as
long as two years, U.S. Commerce Secretary William Daley said.