Mobile banking requires transparent and clear policy and regulations in order to provide privacy and safety on personal data and about the precision of the transmitted data and its potential misuse while carrying out mobile electronic financial transactions. The contracting parties, therefore,...

Online consumption communities evolve over time and go through different stages in their life cycle (Iriberri & Leroy, 2009). The key factor of the sustainability of the community is members' ongoing contribution. This study examines the factors affecting the ongoing contribution of online...

This article examines one of the functions of "intelligent agents" used by service providers on the Internet (e.g., retailers and information search engines) that compare a user's profile to data on other users to determine which users in the database are similar to the focal user, and which...

Recommender systems are effectively used to provide users with suggestions based on their preferences, and first showed their value in e-commerce sites like Amazon and eBay that algorithmically provided recommendations. A key drawback with these systems is that some items need “personal...