Did you read through the CBC Patents,
Message 7362492
Also, got on the Vantage E-Mail list somehow. This is the latest, some of it is interesting
B2B eNews Internet Business Journal
24 February, 1999
eCommerce Gold on Your Horizon...
Analysts at Ziff-Davis are projecting Internet sales figures
for eCommerce for the fourth-quarter 1999 holiday season.
Results of a company survey of adults indicate 24 million
people are likely to buy gifts online this year, more than
three times the 7.8 million who made purchases last year.
"Consumer confidence in the Web as an established and
trustworthy buying channel is growing at an astonishing
pace," said ZDNet's Barry Riggs. He said the Net's position
is attributable to the convenience of online shopping and
customers' satisfaction. He said 99 percent of customers
reported they were "extremely satisfied" with their experience
last year. ZDNet's survey indicated the value of online shopping
during the October-December holiday season was $4.1 billion,
and is expected to more than triple to $13.7 billion this season.
zd.com
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Intel Corp.executive Paul Otellini told a developers conference
in Palm Springs, California his vision for the future is "a billion
Internet-connected PCs and millions of servers generating one
trillion dollars of e-commerce revenues" by 2002. "The Internet is
as important to Intel's future as silicon was to our past," he said.
intel.com
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The most important and most under-reported Internet story
is business-to-business eCommerce. Forrester Research
estimates online purchases for business will be a $1.5 trillion
market in 2003, dwarfing the size of the business-to-consumer
market that is getting all the headlines.
forrester.com
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Another big eCommerce story no one is talking about concerns
Internet merchants outside the US who cannot get an eCommerce
merchant account for Visa or Mastercard because they do not have
the required, physical US presence. It prevents many of them from
participating in online sales.
"Years ago, Visa and Mastercard could be fooled with paper
corporations in Delaware or Nevada. But not anymore," said
Phil Doyle, eCommerce consultant and President of Brainware
Corporate University, the largest Internet distributor of affordable
business training videos, audios and CDs.
brainwaremedia.com
A low profile, California company is offering an international
eCommerce solution for non-US merchants which stands
up to legal scrutiny from Visa and Mastercard. Some have
approached this market only to be quickly shut down for
factoring, an illegal activity in which one merchant processes
another merchant's credit card sales, usually for a fee. Other
recent failures miscalculated the risks, which are considerable.
Vantage provides International Internet Credit Card
Merchant Services for merchants worldwide. Its secure,
automated, real time, Internet credit card capability is
designed specifically for non-US companies and for
US merchants who cannot get or do not want their
own merchant account for any reason. VanCart
carries a 100% satisfaction, money-back guarantee.
Vantage also arranges traditional merchant accounts
for US Internet merchants starting at 2.57%.
Vantage Services Inc. has grown quickly and quietly through
its Internet affiliate program. VPAY pays referrals and residuals
on international merchants' Visa and Mastercard sales volume.
The fast-growing, Internet affiliate program now has thousands
of merchants and affiliates participating worldwide in the
Vantage global retail network.
Vantage has developed unique relationships with ECHOnline,
Visa and Mastercard since 1992 in international, mail order,
credit card merchant services. Vantage Services Inc. is a
member of BBBonline and is now 100% Internet.
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