e-Commerce / e-Business
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Terms It used to be in 1998 / 1999 that e-commerce was the general term used to explain the aspects of setting up a web site to actually conduct transactions over the WWW and e-business was a catch-all phrase for everything else.

However by early 2000, 

  • e-commerce is becoming more closely associated with B2C , that is business-to-consumer circumstances 
    • having a web page that allows you to buy a product with a credit card
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  • e-business is more closely associated with B2B business-to-business circumstances
    • e-business (in an older context) is also used to describe having a webpage that is simply an electronic brochure that shows your product online, but doesn't have a payment mechanism to allow you to buy the product or service online
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