Thursday, October 13, 2016

Ecommerce and M commerce

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If you have ever purchased anything on the internet you are already familiar with ecommerce. Ecommerce can be conducted in a few different way you can have businesses selling to customers. An example of this is if you buy something from Walmart's website. You also have business to business sales. Finally we also have consumer to consumer sales and that is when people use the internet to sell things to one another via websites like Craigslist, EBay, or apps like Offer Up. M commerce is ecommerce that is performed via wireless devices.  Currently there are over 2.6 billion smartphone users and that amount is expected to grow by more than two times by the year 2020 making m commerce increasingly important.


References: https://techcrunch.com/2015/06/02/6-1b-smartphone-users-globally-by-2020-overtaking-basic-fixed-phone-subscriptions/







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