US e-commerce grows by more than 400 percent during last decade

Here's an interesting look at the growth of e-commerce sites in the U.S. over the past decade. As we noted earlier this morning, today marks the 25th anniversary of the "dot-com" domain name that kicked off the explosion of Internet-based commerce. It's a fitting time to take stock of the Internet's impact on our society, as the Federal Communications Commission is scheduled to unveil its much-awaited National Broadband Plan tomorrow with recommendations of how to expand the reach of broadband to enable even more e-commerce growth.