In recent years, Vantiv's role in card data security for the retail industry has become increasingly important with the influx of online businesses and shopping portals.

Rediff.com is a news, information, entertainment, and shopping portal.

The service will provide standard features like e-mail, tailored financial data, news sources, library access and shopping portals - all tailored to be as unintimidating as possible.

In the late 1990s, as more people gained access to the internet, a range of shopping portals were built that listed retailers for specific product genres.

On Yahoo's shopping portal, "gas mask" was the 12th-most heavily searched term for the week ended Feb. 15, up sharply from a week earlier.

There are about 50 shopping portals all competing with each other, and some of them had to raise over $80 million just to get to profitability.

"alonovo" is an online shopping portal that provides similar weightable ethical ratings termed the "Corporate Social Behavior Index".

A standardized online shopping portal is registered to each UFO's account.

Among other things, the site will be the online hub of the company's rewards program, both as a shopping portal and an online redemption catalog.

Custom-made gifts for children are for sale at Freetailer, a division of Excite's shopping portal that is geared to small businesses.