E-Commerce Minute

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E-Commerce Minute: Friday -- January 15, 2016

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Headline Scan
Cisco Aims to Pin Down Shadow IT
The Top 20 CRM Blogs of 2015: Part 1
Samsung Snaps Up Snapdragon 820 Chip Manufacturing Deal
Time Warner Possibilities Put Glint in Apple's Eye
Google Sharpens Its Virtual Reality Focus
Apple Loses Track of News App Traffic
Periscope's Live Streams Now Pop Up in Tweets

Today's Story Highlights

Cisco Aims to Pin Down Shadow IT
Cisco has unveiled Cloud Consumption as a Service to help enterprises
discover and continually monitor public cloud use -- aka "shadow IT" --
across their systems. Shadow IT systems in an enterprise or organization
expose it to security risks and hidden costs, and may give rise to
compliance issues. Organizations are using up to 20 times more cloud
services than IT is aware of, according to Cisco.
http://www.ecommercetimes.com/story/82983.html

The Top 20 CRM Blogs of 2015: Part 1
What makes a great CRM blog? Generally, the same things that make a
great CRM implementation: good planning, thoughtful responses to a
changing market, consistent posting (the "adoption" part of blogging),
the right technology, and people with the right personality. It's the
classic "people, processes and technology" trilogy, really. The blogs
that made our annual list of the best blogs and bloggers are one in a
million.
http://www.ecommercetimes.com/story/82984.html

Samsung Snaps Up Snapdragon 820 Chip Manufacturing Deal
Samsung Electronics on Thursday announced that it had struck a deal that
will make it the sole manufacturer of Qualcomm's flagship mobile
processor. Samsung last spring began mass production of a logic chip
utilizing its 14-nanometer LPP (Low-Power Plus) process in its own
Exynos 8 Octa processor. That process will be used for the Qualcomm
Snapdragon 820 chip.
http://www.ecommercetimes.com/story/82980.html

Time Warner Possibilities Put Glint in Apple's Eye
Time Warner CEO Jeffrey Bewkes this week hinted at a meeting with
investors that he might consider a sale of the company, according to a
news report. Apple, which reportedly is interested in purchasing Time
Warner or its media assets, is keeping a close eye on the discussions.
Buying Time Warner's assets would give the flailing Apple TV streaming
service much-needed programming.
http://www.ecommercetimes.com/story/82979.html

Google Sharpens Its Virtual Reality Focus
Google has confirmed the appointment of Clay Bavor as vice president of
virtual reality, one of several indications that the company intends to
get serious about competing in the emerging field. Diane Greene will
take over Bavor's former role as vice president of product management.
The news comes as Facebook's $599 Oculus Rift and HTC's yet-to-be priced
Vive are being prepped for shipment.
http://www.ecommercetimes.com/story/82977.html

Apple Loses Track of News App Traffic
Apple this week revealed that technical difficulties with its News app
have led the company to underestimate usage figures for the more than
100 publications offering content through the software. The company
discovered an error in the app that's resulted in underestimating the
number of readers using the software, according to Apple's Eddy Cue, who
said the company is fixing the problem.
http://www.ecommercetimes.com/story/82976.html

Periscope's Live Streams Now Pop Up in Tweets
Periscope on Tuesday announced integration with Twitter, allowing users
to view its live-stream broadcasts directly in the Twitter iOS app.
Previously, Periscope broadcasters could share only links to their
videocasts in tweets. Now they can embed video directly into tweets, and
the content can be set to autoplay. Periscope has more than 20 million
user accounts, according to CEO Kayvon Beykpour.
http://www.ecommercetimes.com/story/82975.html

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