Internet News Internet Investing Internet Technology Windows Internet Tech. Analysis on Tuesday, updates on Friday. The other third is made up of portals and infrastructure, such as ISPs, ASPs, and designers.
Markets are increasingly global.
A similar two in five also rely on the Net for business management support to knit together far-flung operations and collaborative partnerships. The additional organizational capacity derived from instantaneous global communication flattens organizational structures and speeds up real-time decision making and information flow. The results show up in profitability across the organization rather than profitability due to Internet presence, a measure not picked up in many studies. While nearly half the Web sites in North America and the Asia-Pacific region cater to consumers, only 25 percent of European sites and one in three in other regions do. The likelihood that a Web business will become profitable, however, increases dramatically with experience.