Building the Chemdex e-marketplace has required more than simply a website.

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Groupon is an e-commerce marketplace that connects merchants to consumers by supplying good and services at deep discounts.

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The service makes sense because it provides Facebook with a way to connect its users with the fast-growing e-commerce marketplace.

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E-commerce marketplace Taobao has worked with rights holders to ban some counterfeit goods from sale and has promised to further simplify its complaint procedures.

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Because a new tablet hardwired with 20, 000 instantly streaming shows, on-demand television, music and movies, a massive e-book marketplace and a history of buyer confidence looks like a very formidable machine.

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We are dealing with the unknown, i.e. what is going to happen in the global marketplace, so there are no guarantees.

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Means of distribution (i.e. games loaded through an installer, through the Zune desktop app, or through Zune Marketplace?) has not yet been decided.

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What a global online marketplace operator needs more is reputation management APIs and bitcoin payment modules for a broad range of e-commerce shopping cart platforms.

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