The Top 10 Moments of the eCommerce Decade

By News Dude,  Newser Staff
Posted Jul 15, 2007 7:26 AM CDT
The Top 10 Moments of the eCommerce Decade
A Google sign is posted at Google headquarters in Mountain View, Calif. in this April 19, 2007 file photo. Google Inc. is seeking help from the U.S. government to fight the rise of Web censorship worldwide. (AP Photo/Paul Sakuma, file)   (Associated Press)

The Software & Information Industry Association has rolled out its list of the top 10 e-commerce developments of the past decade:

  1. Google (Sept. 1998)
  2. Broadband Penetration of U.S. Internet Users Reaches 50% (June 2004)
  3. eBay Auctions (launched Sept. 1997)
  4. Amazon.com (IPO May 1997):
  5. Google Ad Words (2000)

  1. Open Standards (HTML 4.0 released 1997)
  2. Wi-Fi (802.11 launched 1997)
  3. User-Generated Content (YouTube 2005)
  4. iTunes (2001)
  5. BlackBerry (1999)

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