1. Accenture estimates that public cloud computing reached US$70 billion in 2015 alone. See Mark Purdy and Paul Daugherty, Why AI is the future of growth;Accenture,2016
2. Other new sectors, such as subscription e-commerce are also on the rise. See the discussion in Jay I. Sinha, Thomas Forscht and Thomas T. Fung, How Analytics and AI are Driving the Subscription E-Commerce Phenomenon;MIT Sloan Management Review,2016
3. According to the OECD, e-commerce -as the production, advertising, sale and distribution of products via telecommunications networks -is both dependent upon trade and transforming the way in which trade is;Services in the International Economy,1998
4. Commerce des marchandises et commerce des services commerciaux