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13 September 2012
The relentless trend for portals, or online trading communities, is hard to ignore. But with the clear benefits of economic, sector-specific one-stop shopping come concerns about marketplace domination. Marcia MacLeod reports
Astute onlookers have long predicted that business-to-business e-commerce will generate far more revenue than business-to-consumer transactions. The latest figures from e-procurement specialist Commerce One, revealed by its chief executive Mark Hoffman at the company’s eLink conference in London last month, forecast that £35 billion worth of business-to-business goods...