E-commerce, referred to as e-commerce, refers to trading activities and related service activities in the form of electronic transactions on the Internet, intranet and value-added network (VAN), which makes all aspects of traditional business activities electronic and networked.
E-commerce includes electronic currency exchange, supply chain management, electronic trading market, online marketing, online transaction processing, electronic data interchange (EDI), inventory management and automatic data collection system. In this process, the information technologies used include: Internet, extranet, e-mail, database, electronic directory and mobile phone.
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E-commerce covers a wide range and can generally be divided into business-to-business (B2B? /business to business), business to consumer (B2C) and consumer to consumer (C2C).
In addition, there are C2B (consumer to business), B2M (business to marketing), M2C, B2A or B2G (business to administration), C2A or C2G, O2O and other e-commerce modes.