E-Commerce Minute

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E-Commerce Minute: Tuesday -- May 12, 2015

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Headline Scan
The US Government vs. E-Commerce
Smartphone Makers Play Musical Chairs as China's Mobile Market Matures
Customer-In, Not Seller-Out: 5 Realities of the Customer Journey
FAA's Next-Generation Air Transportation System Falters

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Today's Story Highlights

The US Government vs. E-Commerce
"The chief business of the American people is business," President
Calvin Coolidge said. Although that has become the country's rubric,
lawmakers in the United States aren't inclined to give business free
rein. The Justice Department last month trumpeted its first online
marketing prosecution: the leveling of felony charges against David
Topkins, a former executive of Art.com, for alleged price-fixing.
http://www.ecommercetimes.com/story/82044.html

Smartphone Makers Play Musical Chairs as China's Mobile Market Matures
For the first time in six years, China's massive mobile market saw
contraction in its smartphone sector, IDC reported Monday. There were
98.8 million smartphones shipped in China by the end of the first
quarter of 2015, down about 4 percent year over year, according to IDC's
Trackers. Quarter over quarter, the market's Q1 2015 shipments were down
by about 8 percent.
http://www.ecommercetimes.com/story/82040.html

Customer-In, Not Seller-Out: 5 Realities of the Customer Journey
I was doing a little reading about the concept of the customer journey.
I have distinct opinions about it, and I was looking for things that
might challenge or validate those ideas when I stumbled across a blog
post from a major CRM vendor that got my goat. The post proclaimed that
2015 was "the Year of the Customer Journey!" Really? This year? What
about the many years before this?
http://www.ecommercetimes.com/story/82042.html

FAA's Next-Generation Air Transportation System Falters
The United States Federal Aviation Administration last week came under
fire once again for problems with the implementation of its troubled
Next Generation Air Transportation System. The NextGen program to
overhaul the U.S. national air traffic control system, estimated to cost
$29 billion between 2013 and 2030, long has been the target of
congressional wrath.
http://www.ecommercetimes.com/story/82038.html

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