Is the de-facto trustmark Amazon or eBay? Is this fair?

Submitted by griff on Tue, 2012-06-12 20:19

In another discussion on this site, Osimod raises an interesting point about European e-commerce platforms being dominated by Amazon and eBay already (http://daa.ec.europa.eu/content/how-can-investment-e-commerce-help-creat...).

How can investment in E-commerce help creating jobs and fight unemployment?

Submitted by griff on Tue, 2012-06-12 09:15

"The Internet economy generates 2.6 new jobs for every job lost and helps reduce the effects of isolation for a number of rural areas"

(source - creating trust in the digital single market http://ec.europa.eu/internal_market/e-commerce/docs/communication2012/CO... )

Do you have e-commerce specific examples you can share? Do you agree with this statement?

Mobile payments and wallets

Submitted by griff on Tue, 2012-05-01 12:58

Thanks to mearsj, kasia, tonyfish, and miguel.gonzales-sancho for their mobile-payment comments to our opening posting – lets drill down into mobile payments in this discussion. For background I've put together a primer on mobile payments and European activity here: http://oakhallventures.com/mobile-money/

Are Google and PayPal right to complain to the EU that telecom operator mobile wallet JVs are anti-competitive?

Is NFC (near field communication radio) the right mobile wallet enabling technology?

E-commerce in the EU - so what's the issue?

Submitted by griff on Mon, 2012-04-16 19:49

Welcome to the E-commerce discussion group of DigitalAgenda12.

The workshops at DA12 for Ecommerce are focused on Trust and Payments, including the hot topic of mobile payments.

I have fleshed out some of the discussion points below, but let me know in answer to this introductory Ecommerce blog post what is important to you, what I have missed, your proposed solutions, and we can focus subsequent discussions going forward on these topics.