BNET Business Dictionary
Business Definition for: E-business
- the conduct of business on the Internet, including the electronic purchasing and selling of goods and services, servicing customers, and communications with business partners.
- a company that conducts business on the Internet
- Also known as Electronic Business
Wiktionary Definition for: E-business
- uncountable : The practice of servicing businesses or employees over the Internet.
- uncountable : The practice of running a business over the Internet; e-commerce.
- uncountable : Short form of ''e-business department'', ''e-business team'', ''e-business group'', etc.
- A business that operates partially or primarily over the Internet, usually providing services to other businesses.
- Related to or built around e-business.
Additional Resources
- What Do E-book Readers Need to Catch Fire?
- What Do E-book Readers Need to Catch Fire?RE: What Do E-book Readers Need to Catch Fire?I love books, shop at amazon among other places and download e-books. The issue with Kindle is that it is yet another expensive gadget which is only good at one retailer. If they lower...
- Discussion threads 2008-10-28
- Factories gear up in race for e-readers
- Global demand for e-reader devices is booming from San Francisco to Shanghai as bibliophiles around the world turn to digital books. As many as 5m e-readers are being produced this year internationally, and analysts say that could double in 2010.A rush in orders is prompting suppliers to ramp up...
- External links 2009-10-21
- 2009 SEMA: GM's E-Rob brings Green to Hot Rod Engines
- Hot rod addicts should be aware that General Motors is exhibiting a new line of crate motors at this year's Specialty Equipment Manufacturers Association SEMA Show in Las Vegas, Nevada. Called "E-Rod", they passed California's stringent smog tests. Yet they deliver a lot of performance.Consider this! The first E-Rod, dubbed...
- News items 2009-11-05
- Using E-mail to Negotiate
- It's not unusual to conduct negotiations via e-mail. It's fast, convenient, reliable—and global, so we can conduct almost all preliminary discussions without spending time and money on travel. We're no longer captive to time zone differences or long waiting periods before connecting with the right person.We do, however, face new...
- Articles 2007-10-30
- Leave E-Mail Messages On Your E-Mail Server
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- White papers
- Barnes & Noble e-reader to debut Tuesday
- NEW YORK - Barnes & Noble Inc. is expected to unveil an electronic-book reader Tuesday to compete with Amazon.com's Kindle in the still-small arena where some see bookselling's future heading. The New York Times reported that the wireless reader will be called the "Nook" and sell for $259 — the...
- News items 2009-10-20
- B&N's Nook e-reader: Weirdly unrevolutionary
- It would be nice to say, as Matt Miller has, that the e-book and e-reader market was revolutionized today. It simply got more interesting. A careful reading of the $259 Nook's features, and the comparison offered by B&N to the $259 Amazon Kindle 2, reveals that, while it packs a...
- News items 2009-10-20
- Apple's iPhone Could Become Next Hot E-Reader, Says Report
- Apple's iPhone could become a major competitor to Amazon.com?s Kindle and Barnes & Noble's Nook e-readers, says one analytics firm, if the number of e-book apps continues to grow. Despite their heavy focus on proprietary e-reader devices, both Amazon.com and Barnes & Noble have developed iPhone apps for downloading and...
- News items 2009-11-02
- Apple iPhone Could Become Next Hot E-Reader, Says Report
- Apple's iPhone could become a major competitor to Amazon.com's Kindle and Barnes & Noble's Nook e-readers, says one analytics company, if the number of e-book apps continues to grow. Despite their heavy focus on proprietary e-reader devices, both Amazon.com and Barnes & Noble have developed iPhone apps for downloading and...
- News items 2009-11-03
- Google's Colonization of e-Book Devices Continues Apace
- The UK's Interead on Tuesday announced an agreement with Google to make more than a million titles from the search giant's vast library of digitized public domain books available for free on its Cool-er e-book readers via the Coolerbooks.com web site. It was Google's first e-book partnership with a company...
- News items 2009-09-02
- Barnes and Noble E-Reader Info and Images Leaked Online, Say Reports
- Barnes & Noble's much-rumored e-reader device will feature a 6-inch e-ink display and a second multi-touch display, according to photos and information leaked online via tech-blog Gizmodo. Expected to be officially announced on Oct. 20, the Barnes & Noble device will compete against Amazon.com?s Kindle line as well as devices...
- News items 2009-10-14
- E-paper sales expected to hit $9.6 billion in apos18
- Electronic paper is stacking up to be a high-growth market, according to a new report.Sales of e-paper displays are projected to soar from $431 million this year to $9.6 billion in 2018, market researcher DisplaySearch said Wednesday.The number of units sold is forecast to grow 22 million this year to...
- News items 2009-08-26
- A N E W E - C O M M E R C E O P P O R T U N I T Y F O R R E F E R E N C E C O R P O R A P U B L I S H E R S
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- White papers 2001-01-01
- Global Enabled Supply Chain Series: Strategic E-Sourcing
- The ability to evaluate suppliers based on multiple non-price decision factors is indeed one of the hallmarks of strategic e-sourcing. However, there are a host of other benefits that these tools facilitate, depending on the definition of strategic e-sourcing to which a technology enabler adheres. In today's market, it appears...
- White papers 2001-10-01
- Answer Your E-Mail, For Cryin' Out Loud!
- Did you get that e-mail I sent you? The one that asked you to make me a spreadsheet by Friday? Or did it vanish into the ether? I don't know, because I'm not psychic and my inbox is empty. Here's the problem with managing via e-mail. Unlike...
- Blog posts 2008-07-08
- Answer Your E-Mail, For Cryin' Out Loud!
- Answer Your E-Mail, For Cryin' Out Loud!Lead by exampleI would add that if you expect your staff to do this, you'd better do it too lead by example type of thing. I have been very annoyed in the past when I'm expected to do something that will make my...
- Discussion threads 2008-07-08
- e-Security's e-S.A.F.E.(TM) Audit and Compliance Framework Enables Policy Monitoring Across Regulations
- e-Security, the leading supplier of security management and compliance monitoring solutions, today announced the availability of e-S.A.F.E., e-Security's Audit Framework for the Enterprise. e-S.A.F.E. enables organizations to leverage existing IT investments and implement one structure for policy monitoring and reporting across regulations and platforms throughout the extended enterprise. With e-S.A.F.E.,...
- Research articles 2004-11-08
- E*Trade Asked to Raise New Capital Without Access to TARP
- E*Trade is the latest company to have been dragged into the stress tests run by U.S. federal bank regulators and has been asked to raise new capital as a result. But unlike the "too-big-to-fail" 19 major financial institutions also undergoing stress tests, the online broker -- which doubles as a...
- Blog posts 2009-04-30
- Condé Nast's Style.com Matches Advertising To E-Commerce
- Right in time for this month’s Fashion Week—and the usual companion traffic spike, Condé Nast’s is unveiling its latest e-commerce play: Shop The Look at Style.com, aka the web home of Vogue. Rachel Wintner, Style.com’s associate publisher, told paidContent the e-commerce service is a direct way to prove its...
- External links 2009-09-02
- Barnes & Noble's e-reader triplets and the e-commerce distribution game
- Barnes & Noble reportedly is planning to sell its own branded e-reader in a move that would give it three devices hooking up to its book store. The Wall Street Journal reports that Barnes & Noble is planning a device with a six-inch screen and a touch screen Techmeme. The...
- News items 2009-10-08
