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News Cart for June 19th

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Facebook dominates e-commerce headlines with its new cryptocurrency, Libra, which aims to address much of the criticism faced by Bitcoin and other digital currencies. Similarly, upstart e-commerce platform Verishop takes on Amazon by trying to ease seller frustrations such as counterfeiting.

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

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From mobile shopping to online payment encryption and beyond, ecommerce encompasses a wide variety of data, systems, and tools for both online buyers and sellers. Keep in mind that ecommerce has a few different spelling variations. Ecommerce Timeline: Year Major Ecommerce Event. 1995 Amazon and eBay launch. is founded.

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