E-Commerce Minute

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E-Commerce Minute: Saturday -- August 1, 2015

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Headline Scan
US House Opens Up to Open Source
As Wireless Changes, So Must Marketing
Monitoring the Sales Metrics That Matter Most
Facebook Pumps Up Internet.org
Salesforce's Lightning Announcement

Today's Story Highlights

US House Opens Up to Open Source
Providers of open source software recently found another market: the 435
members of the U.S. House of Representatives. That market easily will
grow to many thousands of potential open source users when the staffs of
representatives and House committees are added to the total. Certain
procurement restrictions that had constrained the use of open source
technology in the House have been clarified.
http://www.ecommercetimes.com/story/82330.html

As Wireless Changes, So Must Marketing
We have just seen quarterly earnings reports from AT&T and Verizon, and
they continue to grow at a healthy pace. Sprint and T-Mobile also have
started to grow once again. However, the larger wireless marketplace is
splitting into smaller segments. Understanding this is one of many keys
to success for any wireless carrier going forward. The larger wireless
marketplace is changing.
http://www.ecommercetimes.com/story/82323.html

Monitoring the Sales Metrics That Matter Most
I recently conducted a simple, one-question survey, using sales pros as
my target audience. The question was idiotically simple: What is the
most important metric for people in sales? In this era of big data, deep
analysis and predictive analytics, you might have thought that some new,
performance-based metric would have surfaced as the new secret weapon.
http://www.ecommercetimes.com/story/82326.html

Facebook Pumps Up Internet.org
Facebook on Monday announced it was scaling up Internet.org, creating a
partner portal that makes it easier for mobile operators to offer its
free basic services in new countries. Those basic services are bringing
new users onto mobile networks more than 50 percent faster, and more
than half of them pay for data and Internet access within 30 days of
signing up, Facebook said.
http://www.ecommercetimes.com/story/82319.html

Salesforce's Lightning Announcement
Spreadsheets suffered a body blow on Tuesday, when Salesforce announced
new platform functionality. Soon all spreadsheets will be good for is
financial analysis. This sounds funny, because the spreadsheet for
several decades has been the unofficial IT prototyping tool. Actually,
it was the end-users' prototyping tool -- the default thing they used to
capture data.
http://www.ecommercetimes.com/story/82318.html

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