E-Commerce Minute

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E-Commerce Minute: Thursday -- December 10, 2015

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Feinstein Revives Terrorist Activity Reporting Bill
Microsoft and Apple Share a Peaceful Moment
Mozilla Launches Free Ad Blocker for iOS 9
Yahoo Spins in Reverse
Federal IT Opportunities: Steady Funding, Constant Challenges
2015: The Year of Intelligence

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Today's Story Highlights

Feinstein Revives Terrorist Activity Reporting Bill
Sen. Dianne Feinstein has reintroduced a bill that would require
technology companies to alert law enforcement of certain activities that
might be related to terrorist threats. It would mandate that technology
companies notify authorities of communications regarding attack
planning, recruitment, or distribution of information relating to
explosives if they should become aware of that activity.
http://www.ecommercetimes.com/story/82857.html

Microsoft and Apple Share a Peaceful Moment
Can you imagine Microsoft and Apple actually liking each other? Who'da
thunk such a thing was even possible? However, the holiday spirit is
alive and well at Microsoft. The company flew a bunch of workers from
around the country into New York City for something very special. They
met with a local NYC children's youth choir at Microsoft's new Fifth
Avenue store to spread some special holiday cheer.
http://www.ecommercetimes.com/story/82858.html

Mozilla Launches Free Ad Blocker for iOS 9
Mozilla on Monday launched Focus by Firefox, a free ad blocker for
Safari users on iOS 9. It lets users block the same trackers blocked by
Private Browsing with Tracking Protection in Firefox for the Windows,
Mac, Linux and Android platforms. The protection is based on
Disconnect's open source block list. Focus by Firefox doesn't work with
Firefox.
http://www.ecommercetimes.com/story/82856.html

Yahoo Spins in Reverse
Yahoo on Wednesday announced that its board of directors decided to
suspend plans to spin off its Alibaba holdings and instead will
undertake a reverse spinoff, transferring its other assets and
liabilities to a newly formed company. The stock of the newly formed
company will be distributed pro rata to Yahoo shareholders, resulting in
two separate publicly traded companies.
http://www.ecommercetimes.com/story/82854.html

Federal IT Opportunities: Steady Funding, Constant Challenges
The good news for federal information technology managers -- and the
vendor community -- is that government IT budgets will remain stable for
the next few years in terms of projected spending. An additional
potential benefit is that a recent budget agreement will support
agencies for two years. The spending stability doesn't mean federal IT
procurement will remain boringly routine, however.
http://www.ecommercetimes.com/story/82848.html

2015: The Year of Intelligence
This year we traded in terminologies going from big data and analytics
to digital disruption as the market-moving meme. I am not sure either
one hits the spot, but they give me something to write about. Other
things happened in 2015 too, but I'm just going to focus here. It seems
to me we focus on the symptoms and not the root causes too often in this
business.
http://www.ecommercetimes.com/story/82850.html

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