American business: internet.

Since its advent during the mid-1990’s, online marketing has become a vital part of the overall marketing strategies of most major American companies.

As the Internet has expanded, it has fostered an explosive and self-generating wealth of textual, audio, visual, and multimedia resources that have made possible an exceptional rise in U.S. labor productivity.

Google, the leading Internet information organization and search company in the world, is one of the fastest growing companies in the world.

E-mail has replaced voice and physical mail as the primary means of communication in many businesses.

The eBay auction site started with 41,000 registered users in 1996 and a merchandise volume of $7.2 million.

During the 1990’s, Internet-related businesses were viewed as a way for investors to make quick profits, and millions of dollars were pumped into nascent businesses.

Digital recording has made possible much higher quality sound reproduction on much smaller and less expensive media but, at the same time, has made it easier for users to make high-quality copies of copyrighted materials, thereby cutting into sales of these materials.