E-Commerce

Seminar paper from the year 2002 in the subject Engineering - Industrial Engineering and Management, grade: 2,3 (B+), Pforzheim University (Industrial Engineering Faculty), course: Foreign Language Seminar, 8 entries in the bibliography, language: English, comment: Development, E-Marketing and Trends in E-Commerce with some examples , abstract: In the early 90s, the development of the Internet grew rapidly with an enormous speed. Electronic Commerce (E-Commerce) must be seen as a part of the economical process of the Internet-area. It s the first step of direct communication between users through the Internet. Before this, web sides were only created for presentations of companies or other publishing activities.§Today, the two parts Business-to-Business (B2B) and Business-to-Consumer (B2C) are the leading-markets of E-Commerce. B2B is the trading between companies on a direct way or through developed E-platforms. This E-market will be future s fastest growing sector.§The author Steffen Wittenauer gives a very good overview in this part of the early internet-history and takes the reader step by step to future themes of a communication-medium which is used by billions of people.