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E-commerce involves the buying or selling of products and services over the Internet. The success of the World Wide Web led to modern electronic commerce, and the required technologies (e.g., electronic funds transfer, secure socket layer, electronic data interchange, online transaction processing) were later developed.

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O’Regan, G. (2018). E-Commerce. In: The Innovation in Computing Companion. Springer, Cham. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-030-02619-6_26

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