E-Commerce Minute

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E-Commerce Minute: Tuesday -- October 6, 2015

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Headline Scan
Federal Cybersecurity Performance Gets Mixed Reviews
Can Jack Dorsey Save Twitter?
Amazon Banishes Apple and Google Streamers
3 Ways CRM Can Help Sales in the IoT Era
The Sluggish Crawl to Chip-Secured Shopping

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Today's Story Highlights

Federal Cybersecurity Performance Gets Mixed Reviews
The spectacular database breach that affected nearly 21 million people
highlighted the continuing vulnerability of U.S. government information
technology systems, despite the expenditure of billions each year on
cybersecurity. The breach resulted in the departure of the head of the
agency and triggered widespread questioning about the adequacy of
federal IT security by members of Congress.
http://www.ecommercetimes.com/story/82571.html

Can Jack Dorsey Save Twitter?
Twitter cofounder Jack Dorsey, who has been running the company as
interim CEO for the past three months, has taken the reins for good, the
company revealed in a document filed with the SEC. Former CEO Dick
Costolo has left Twitter's board of directors, and Adam Bain has stepped
into the chief operating officer role. Dorsey will continue to lead
Square, the mobile POS company he founded, as well.
http://www.ecommercetimes.com/story/82569.html

Amazon Banishes Apple and Google Streamers
Amazon last week said it planned to stop selling streaming devices from
rivals Apple and Google. A pillar of its Prime ecosystem, Prime Video,
was incompatible with Apple TV and Google's Chromecast, the company
suggested. It made the decision to "avoid customer confusion," according
to a company statement. Other devices with streaming capabilities would
continue to be available, the company said.
http://www.ecommercetimes.com/story/82565.html

3 Ways CRM Can Help Sales in the IoT Era
It's becoming increasingly clear that the nature of the sales profession
is changing. Salespeople are no longer the ones who introduce products
to their customers -- in most cases, especially in business-to-business
settings, customers have done a lot of research on their own and are
close to a decision before they talk to a salesperson. This trend has
some people in sales panicked.
http://www.ecommercetimes.com/story/82567.html

The Sluggish Crawl to Chip-Secured Shopping
For retailers that do not yet accept EMV cards -- credit and debit cards
with chips embedded in them -- a spine-tingling deadline arrived last
week. Liability for any payment fraud that results from acceptance of
old-school plastic shifted to them. The magnetic chips in EMV cards will
reduce in-store payment fraud, which affected 62 percent of companies,
according to a recent survey.
http://www.ecommercetimes.com/story/82564.html

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