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instapreneur

(INSTAnt entrePRENEUR) An individual who uses eBay, Amazon and other online retail outlets to promote products that would otherwise be too costly to advertise. For example, Amazon.com lets anyone create an online store, and the products placed in the store are promoted automatically by Amazon whenever someone searches for similar merchandise. See online store.

online store

A website that offers items for sale and accepts credit cards. An online store for downloading apps to a smartphone or computer is an "app store" (see online app store). Contrast with e-commerce. See shopping cart, virtual bank, bricks and clicks, cybermall and e-commerce.

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instant messaging	Insteon
instant messaging vs. text messaging	Institute for Certification
Instant Messenger	instruction
instant-on	instruction blend
instant-on operating system	instruction cycle
instant-on OS	instruction-level parallelism
instant print	instruction mix
instant replay	instruction pointer
instant video	instruction register
instantiate	instruction repertoire

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