E-Commerce Minute

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E-Commerce Minute: Tuesday -- June 30, 2015

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Headline Scan
Microsoft Is Looking More Like the House Nadella Built
Yelp Study Blasts Google for Screwing With Search
Cisco Erects 6 Pillars for the IoT
The Encryption Software Scuffle
CFPB: Mortgage Servicers Still Rooking Consumers

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Today's Story Highlights

Microsoft Is Looking More Like the House Nadella Built
Some aspects of CEO Satya Nadella's vision for Microsoft are becoming
more clear. For one thing, the company's interest in advertising is
seriously on the wane. Microsoft reportedly has handed off most of its
digital advertising sales business to AOL. Microsoft will retain control
of its search advertising sales, however, and Bing will replace Google
as the engine powering AOL's consumer searches.
http://www.ecommercetimes.com/story/82230.html

Yelp Study Blasts Google for Screwing With Search
Google has been tampering with the responses its search engine gives to
queries and, as a result, has been hurting social welfare, alleges a
survey conducted by Michael Luca, a Harvard Business School economist,
and Tim Wu, a professor at Columbia Law School and former FTC advisor.
Yelp sponsored the research. The team last week sent a paper reporting
the results to the European Commission.
http://www.ecommercetimes.com/story/82229.html

Cisco Erects 6 Pillars for the IoT
Cisco on Monday launched Cisco IoT System -- a new Internet of Things
initiative comprised of 15 products geared toward improving device
interoperability. As many as 50 billion devices and objects could be
connected to the Internet by 2020, the company forecast, yet today more
than 99 percent of things in the physical world currently are
unconnected.
http://www.ecommercetimes.com/story/82227.html

The Encryption Software Scuffle
In the face of encryption that could block brute force attempts for
years, law enforcement agencies at every level have been calling for
keys that allow investigators to crack open smartphones and court cases
alike. Some of the world's leading tech companies and privacy advocates
have called for the White House to stand against any proposal to weaken
the security software on consumer products.
http://www.ecommercetimes.com/story/82225.html

CFPB: Mortgage Servicers Still Rooking Consumers
Mortgage servicers got a bad name during the subprime mortgage crisis,
but despite that reputation damage, and despite new laws designed to get
them on the straight and narrow, they're still up to their tricks, the
CFPB has found. Between January and April, many servicers violated
Regulation X, which spells out requirements for soliciting, completing
and evaluating loss mitigation applications.
http://www.ecommercetimes.com/story/82224.html

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