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Digital Commerce and the Threat of Card-not-present Fraud

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Take digital commerce, for example. Some estimates project that global ecommerce sales will reach $4 trillion by the year 2020. Mobile payments are also making an increasing impact. This shift to mobile is pushed along with the ever expanding list of payments-enabled devices. ecommerce market by 2020.

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The History of Ecommerce: What The Past Says About Tomorrow’s Retail Challenges

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Ecommerce Timeline: Year Major Ecommerce Event. 1969 The first major ecommerce company, CompuServe, is founded. 1982 Boston Computer Exchange launches as one of the first ecommerce platforms. 1998 PayPal launches as an online payment system. 2011 Google Wallet launches as an online payment system.

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