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Jul 07, 2004, 11:30 (0 Talkback[s])
(Other stories by Jason Gilmore, Jon Shoberg)
"'Money makes the world go around' is a well-known adage, and a
similar aphorism could be made about the Internet. Indeed, in the
last ten years, a mammoth industry has grown out of and because of
the Internet. These days it's quite common to conduct a
considerable part of one's personal business online, using the Web
to manage utilities, bank and securities accounts, and to purchase
everything from cruises to cars to compact discs and even
candy.
"Yes, even in the Internet age, money still makes the world go
around--except now the money exchanges hands via cashless
transactions performed through a series of web forms and automated
interactions between banks and credit card companies..."
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