The Value-added Activity
Begins after the Customer hits 'Submit Order'
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that "Customer service will become the point of differentiation"
E-COMMERCE GOVERNANCE & GOING GLOBAL NEWS ToC
- China may alter Net investment laws
- Bill would prohibit Net
taxes
- Sales Tax Would Harm E-Commerce
- White House proposes looser
crypto exports
- Comparison shopping sites in copycat lawsuit
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China may alter Net investment laws
China's laws do
not permit foreign investors to provide Internet content or servers, but the legal
framework could be changed by the end of the year, Minister of Information Industry
Wu Jichuan said today. He said issues related to Internet investment by foreigners
are now under discussion, but he offered no clue as to what the resolution might
be. Bill
would prohibit Net taxes
While a congressional commission studies
Net taxation, McCain (R-Arizona), who is chairman of the Senate Commerce Committee,
has introduced legislation to make a moratorium on "discriminatory"
Net taxes permanent. Sales
Tax Would Harm E-Commerce
Seventy-five percent of online buyers will
buy less on the Internet if sales taxes are instituted on the World Wide Web,
according to a survey by BizRate.com. White
House proposes looser crypto exports
The federal government took
a substantial step today toward loosening controversial restrictions on the export
of data-encryption software. Comparison
shopping sites in copycat lawsuit
Priceman, a relative newcomer
to the comparison shopping business, lifted verbatim passages and services from
a competing Web site, a federal lawsuit filed this week alleges.
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