Re: UKNM: UK is leader in e-commerce

[Mark Curtis]

As usual, the report did not blossom from the heart of academia without some

commercial purpose: in this case read to the bottom of the BBC online story

and you can see it is sponsored by Novell, clearly targeting established

corporates rather than internet start-ups/predominantly internet

 businesses - thats why it doesn't mention Amazon, Schwab, E-Bay etc....



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Date: 18 May 1999 14:59

Subject: Re: UKNM: UK is leader in e-commerce



read 'clueless academic sees crappy boosterish e-commerce research as a

route to funding'


absolute rubbish, as the person who wrote the article below now understands


http://news.bbc.co.uk/hi/english/business/the_company_file/newsid_345000/345

268.stm


>...or at least that's what the headline in yesterday's London Metro paper

>read. I tried to find a link online for this story, but there doesn't seem

>to be a news archive at the website. I thought the headline was surprising,

>but then I read on...

>

>"British Telecom and Tesco are helping the UK lead the way in global

>Internet shopping, according to a survey published yesterday. The London

>School of Economics study found that the retail and communication giants

>were amongst the multinationals with the best ecommerce services on the

>Internet.

>

>The '1999' Worldwide Web 100' survey saw German airline Lufthansa claim top

>spot.

>

>Tesco was second followed by BT while British Airways ranked fifth overall.

>The survey found European companies, which had been considered slow to

>develop e-commerce, were catching up with their US rivals, with six out of

>the top ten rankings claimed by European firms."

>

>Other European firms with honourable mentions: Deutsche Telekom, Deutsche

>Bank.

>

>They also claimed, "the e-commerce market has grown from practical

>non-existence in 1997 to a �100bn industry today".

>

>OK, after I'd read it a second time, I began to wonder if this information

>could actually be true. From my own personal experience, I couldn't quite

>believe the companies quoted were really that far ahead of the game,

>particularly of the huge US presence in ecommerce. If you're talking about

>multinationals, surely the likes of Amazon.com, BOL, CDNow, et al. are

>leading the way in ecommerce? Maybe I'm missing something (the scope of the

>report), but it seemed quite misleading.

>

>Do other list members share the reports conclusions? Is the UK/Europe

>really gaining groung on the established US players in e-commerce?


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