Last year, the company began operating its Trading Process Network, a Web-based service linking corporate buyers and sellers.

The real benefits are in linking buyers and sellers so that both sides can react more nimbly.

ComicSeller is a clearinghouse that links buyers and sellers.

The market also contains around 10-12 foreign exchange brokers who link buyers and sellers of foreign currency.

Social purchasing networks are able to link buyers and sellers together who share values of faith, politics, charitable causes, and institutional affinities.

Nets Inc., which specializes in linking buyers and sellers of industrial goods on the Internet, filed for bankruptcy protection last month.

These dot-com marketplaces can link more buyers and suppliers, spur competition and speed negotiations.

Industry.Net is an on-line service intended to link corporate buyers and sellers on the World Wide Web.

It said it had no responsibility for the fakes because it was nothing more than a marketplace that links buyers and sellers.

An on-line shopping mall for manufacturers, using the power of the Internet as a low-cost medium of communications to link industrial buyers and sellers.