Also, business can be conducted over the internet. Businesses can buy and sell merchandise, and stocks can be traded over the stock market electronically. Both smaller developing countries and industrialized nations stand to benefit from increased participation in the growing electronic marketplace. The internet provides a cheap way of linking millions of businesses and consumers together all around the world. Connectivity helps consumers find and sometimes locate item they would otherwise not be able to find.
Many different sites provide ways to purchase goods from many different companies.
For example Ebay , which is an online auction, provides ways for sellers and potential buyers to post items that may either be in high demand, or hard to find. These items are then set up in auction format and the item then goes to the highest bidder over a certain period of time. Also many sites, such as yahoo , lycos , and Msn , have their own online shopping areas. With the rise of connectivity and the internet, many jobs hove been created in the media world. Jobs have been created to design, maintain, and to created better and more productive web products.