E-Commerce

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E-Commerce
The process of buying and
selling goods and services
electronically involving
transactions using the Internet,
networks, and other digital
technologies.
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Types of Electronic Commerce

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Three major electronic commerce

categories are:
1.Business-to-consumer (B2C)
electronic commerce
2.Business-to-business (B2B)
electronic commerce
3.Consumer-to-consumer (C2C)
electronic commerce

Business-to-consumer (B2C)
Business-to-consumer (B2C)
electronic commerce involves
retailing products and services to
individual shoppers.
Amazon.com, which sells books,
software, and music to individual
consumers.
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Business-to-Business (B2B)
Business-to-Business (B2B)
electronic commerce involves
sells of goods and services
among businesses.
www.alibaba.com
www.made-in-china.com
www.globalsources.com
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Consumer-to-Consumer (C2C)
Consumer -to-Consumer (C2C)
electronic commerce involves
consumers selleing directly to
consumers.

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eBay.com, the giant web auction site,

enables people to sell their goods to
other consumers by auctioning the
merchandise off to the highest
bidders.

Intranets and Extranets

An Intranet is a corporate
network that uses the existing
company network
infrastructure along with
Internet connectivity standards
and software developed for
the World Wide Web.
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An extranet is an intranet that can

be accessed by authorised
outside users over the internet. To
gain entrance to the extranets
resources, an external user
typically must log on to the
network by providing a user name
and a password.
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E-Commerce in Bangladesh
www.clickbd.com
www.boromela.com
www.upoharbd.com
www.pcratio.com

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Online Banking

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Online banking refers to the

using a banks website to
handle banking related tasks
Create an account
Transfer funds
View transactions
Pay bills