1.   As aggregators, they bring a group of dispersed trading partners together into a virtual marketplace.

2.   In the deal with SAP, Deutsche Bank plans to set up virtual marketplaces for corporations to trade products like chemicals and steel.

3.   Instead, Ventro is helping other companies build and maintain these incredibly complex virtual marketplaces.

4.   The virtual marketplace can turn a hankering for collectibles and cash into a thriving business, as more and more people are discovering.

5.   They figured if they could trade energy, they could trade anything, anywhere, in the new virtual marketplace.

6.   This time, Plautz used a virtual marketplace called eLance.com.

7.   What has made eBay so popular and so successful is that it has created the Holy Grail of Internet commerce, a true virtual marketplace.

8.   Essentially, it allows trade to be carried out in a virtual marketplace that connects traders and buyers from all over the world via computer technology.

9.   With the advent of information technology and the virtual marketplace, e-commerce is expected to bring dramatic changes to the way goods and services are traded.