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Evan Henschel
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Eric Swibel
Service providers need incentives to continue providing top-notch service.That is what most customers believe. Whether a customer engages a vendor for cloud computing, software offered as a service ("SaaS"), outsourcing, or simply the maintenance aspect of a traditional software licensing agreement, if an element of the deal is for the vendor to provide ongoing services, the customer will always seek a financial lever to provide the vendor with an incentive to perform.
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Marjorie J. Peerce
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Carolyn Barth Renzin
Possessing child pornography is such a potentially serious crime that institutions take pains to keep it off their premises. e-Commerce firms, whether they have significant physical premises or not, are no different.
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Joel Stashenko
An appeals court ruled last month that a state law requiring most online retailers to collect sales taxes on purchases by New Yorkers is constitutional on its face, though the panel ordered the reinstatement of claims that the tax law may violate the Commerce and Due Process clauses as applied to Amazon.com and Overstock.com.
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Jonathan Bick
Customarily, franchise agreements delineate an owner's exclusive right to sell to a particular locality. But, as is the case when the Internet is involved, the ubiquitous tool's communications capabilities have blurred franchise-location boundaries through novel low-cost marketing opportunities for commercial enterprises. While Internet-based franchise encroachment is rampant, courts are reluctant to interfere with the contracts that gave rise to the franchise relationship.
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Stanley P Jaskiewicz
Entrepreneurs once able to cash out on their own terms, to eager buyers unwilling to risk negotiating lest a competitor get the deal, now must accept markedly less favorable terms.
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Nicholas Gaffney
Read on for the 21 Web tools that are not only useful and cutting-edge, but easy to use.
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Kevin Carr
One of most quickly evolving areas of eDiscovery is centered around the relationship of in-house counsel and law firms. The best way to understand where things are going is to first look at where we've been.
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Michael Lear-Olimpi
e-Commerce spending in the second quarter was up an estimated full $1 billion from the first quarter, or $39.7 billion, the Census Bureau notes in preliminary figures ' a 2.6% rise for April through June, a gain of 1.5% from the first quarter and a healthy increase of 14% from the second quarter of last year.
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Stanley P. Jaskiewicz
One of the virtues of e-commerce has always been its low barrier to entry. For little investment of time or money, anyone can set up shop online, whether selling advice or widgets. But can something so easily accomplished really be a business? Will an entrepreneur run something out of her spare bedroom the same way as if she had venture capitalists peering over her shoulders, demanding a business plan, financial statements, budgets, marketing plans and everything that a bricks-and-mortar retailer has (except the expense of leasing space)? If not, she may treat it as just another hobby, something to handle in her free time.
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Mark S. Sidoti, Philip J. Duffy
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Paul E. Asfendis
Despite huge technological advancements in the 25 years since passage of the SCA, and the ever-increasing prominence of electronic communication in our society, Congress has not amended the SCA to keep pace with changing technology. Rather, courts have had to lead the charge in applying the decades-old statute to modern Internet technology and electronic communication disclosure issues.
