Digital+Commerce

Digital Commerce Voice Thread Collaborative Project

Group members: Stephanie, Matt, Ben and Christina (June 15, 2010)

**Digital Commerce or e-commerce,** commerce conducted over the [|Internet], most often via the [|World Wide Web]. E-commerce can apply to purchases made through the Web or to business-to-business activities such as inventory transfers. A customer can order items from a vendor's Web site, paying with a [|credit card] (the customer enters account information via the computer) or with a previously established "cybercash" account. The transaction information is transmitted (usually by [|modem] ) to a financial institution for payment clearance and to the vendor for order fulfillment. Personal and account information is kept confidential through the use of "secured transactions" that use encryption technology (see [|data encryption] ) []media type="custom" key="6403161"