Electronic commerce, or e-commerce has developed exponentially in the last few years and has left some in the cold. The majority of people think e-commerce is just about buying and selling things over the Internet like through auctioning sites such as E-Bay and U-Bid. However, E-commerce is a broad term describing the electronic exchange of business data between two or more organizations' computers. Some examples might be the electronic job applications, on-line services like America …showed first 75 words of 260 total…

…showed last 75 words of 260 total…of credit cards as a payment system began the revolution of the automated process of commerce that we are so familiar to today. The introduction of the ATM card in the mid 80’s was one of the most recent improvements to electronic commerce and its capabilities. As the Internet grows in popularity every day, so does electronic commerce. E-business can be anything from purchasing clothes from a department store online to checking your bank statement.