--- meta: date: false reading_time: false title: "E-commerce" date: 2023-10-05 description: "The practice of advertising and selling goods and services over the internet." tags: ["E-commerce", "Digital Economy", "Internet Business"] --- ## Background E-commerce stands for electronic commerce. It signifies the practice of advertising and selling goods and services over the internet. The ever-increasing capability of the internet to reach global audiences means that e-commerce has rapidly become established as a norm in both B2C (Business to Consumer) and B2B (Business to Business) sectors.