E-commerce is best described as the art of doing business online…people can buy things, sell things, pay dues, pay bills, make reservations, take donations and handle virtually any kind of financial transaction that once required either a face or face, a telephone or snail mail interaction with the ease of a few clicks of a mouse.
E-Commerce is one of the fastest growing segments of the Internet despite the fact that there have already been many fortunes made selling merchandise online and the big players have long since established strong online e-commerce positions.
TIME Digital’s Bill Syken, offers the following rankings of the “major players” in e-commerce.
BEST OVERALL:
