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electronic commerce
Last modified: Tuesday, January 29, 2008 

Often referred to as simply e-commerce, business that is conducted over the Internet using any of the applications that rely on the Internet, such as e-mail, instant messaging, shopping carts, Web services, UDDI, FTP, and EDI, among others. Electronic commerce can be between two businesses transmitting funds, goods, services and/or data or between a business and a customer.

See Understanding "Web Services" in the "Did You Know...?" section of Webopedia.
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