E-Commerce Minute

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E-Commerce Minute: Thursday -- January 21, 2016

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Microsoft Cloud Rains Free Services on Nonprofits
The Year of Connected and Self-Driving Cars
Digital Ad Fraud Could Top $7 Billion in 2016
FTC Issues Regulatory Warning on Big Data Use
Cloud Research
Cook Slams Door on Backdoor Discussions
Demandware Teams With eBay on Omnichannel E-Commerce Solution
Netflix Cracks Down on Overseas Proxy Access

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Microsoft Cloud Rains Free Services on Nonprofits
CEO Satya Nadella on Tuesday took the occasion of the World Economic
Forum in Davos, Switzerland, to announce that Microsoft plans to donate
US$1 billion worth of cloud services to serve nonprofits and university
researchers over the next three years. The company's recently formed
Microsoft Philanthropies unit will manage the contribution as part of a
three-part effort.
http://www.ecommercetimes.com/story/83013.html

The Year of Connected and Self-Driving Cars
Connected cars and self-driving cars are two of the hottest and fastest-
growing segments in the marketplace today. However, they are often
confused. Connected cars are here today. Self-driving cars are not yet,
but they are coming. They both mean advancements in automotive. They
both use wireless networks, wireless technology, satellite technology,
ground-based sensors and more.
http://www.ecommercetimes.com/story/83011.html

Digital Ad Fraud Could Top $7 Billion in 2016
Bot fraud will cost digital advertisers $7.2 billion worldwide this
year, according to a report released Tuesday by the Association of
National Advertisers. For the "2015 Bot Baseline" report, 49 ANA members
deployed detection tags from White Ops on their digital ads to measure
bot fraud over 61 days. Bot fraud impacted up to 37 percent of ads,
compared to up to 22 percent in a study in 2014.
http://www.ecommercetimes.com/story/83008.html

FTC Issues Regulatory Warning on Big Data Use
The Federal Trade Commission is extending its regulatory reach to the e-
commerce impact of big data. For years, the FTC has asserted vigorously
its authority to apply existing consumer protection laws to emerging
developments in the IT realm. Now it is signaling that it will apply
that same vigor to big data under the regulatory authority it possesses
through the FTC Act and other laws.
http://www.ecommercetimes.com/story/83004.html

Cloud Research
Last year, uber-analyst Esteban Kolsky and I did a research project to
better understand cloud computing's uptake and related issues, and last
week Financial Force, our sponsor, made the results public. The findings
are interesting to me because they reveal a more or less typical
adoption cycle for cloud, by which I mean that some of the downstream
effects are only gradually becoming apparent.
http://www.ecommercetimes.com/story/83006.html

Cook Slams Door on Backdoor Discussions
Privacy advocates from around the globe have taken heart from reports
that Apple CEO Tim Cook pushed hard against the Obama administration's
efforts to reach a compromise on encryption during a recent Silicon
Valley meeting. Cook reportedly lashed out at administration officials
who were calling for a way to grant law enforcement officials limited,
backdoor access to computer systems.
http://www.ecommercetimes.com/story/83000.html

Demandware Teams With eBay on Omnichannel E-Commerce Solution
Demandware and eBay Enterprise on Monday announced an alliance to
develop a fully enabled omnichannel commerce solution that will provide
integrated access to Demandware's Commerce Cloud platform and eBay
Enterprise's suite of back-end and fulfillment technologies and
services. The solution will let clients significantly reduce the
complexity of managing their front- and back-end systems.
http://www.ecommercetimes.com/story/83002.html

Netflix Cracks Down on Overseas Proxy Access
Netflix last week announced it will crack down on members using proxies
or unblockers to access titles from overseas. That follows the company's
announcement at CES 2016 earlier this month of a global rollout that has
it offering streaming content in 190 countries. The problem is that not
all of Netflix's content is available globally, said Netflix's David
Fullagar.
http://www.ecommercetimes.com/story/82985.html

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