E-Commerce Minute

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E-Commerce Minute: Tuesday -- January 26, 2016

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Headline Scan
The Gears of E-Commerce
Execs Exit as Dorsey Works to Reshape Twitter
The Top 20 CRM Blogs of 2015, Part 2: The Top 10
California Bill Would Ban Encrypted Smartphone Sales
Android Is Download King, but iOS Reigns Over Revenues
Foxconn Makes $5.3B Bid for Sharp
Consumer Advocates Push FCC on Broadband Privacy Rules
Apple Stats Reflect Slow Slog Toward Diversification
ESPN Boss Sees Significant Role for Sling TV

Today's Story Highlights

The Gears of E-Commerce
As the U.S. retail industry puts another long holiday shopping season
behind it, a few changes appear to be taking place. For one thing, it
appears there's a new recipe for success. Growing a business requires
more than setting up a fancy website, placing inventory into a
warehouse, and engaging a service to make speedy deliveries. That's in
part because customer expectations have changed.
http://www.ecommercetimes.com/story/83028.html

Execs Exit as Dorsey Works to Reshape Twitter
Twitter CEO Jack Dorsey on Sunday announced that four executives have
exited the company. Alex Roetter and Kevin Weil, who managed the
engineering teams responsible for generating ads; Katie Stanton, who
helped guide the international offices; and Skip Schipper, who oversaw
HR and recruiting, all have departed. Roetter, Weil and Stanton each had
been with Twitter for more than five years.
http://www.ecommercetimes.com/story/83025.html

The Top 20 CRM Blogs of 2015, Part 2: The Top 10
Almost a decade ago, the first edition of this list was tough to
compile. There simply weren't that many CRM blogs that were consistent
(we set the annual minimum number of posts at eight), vendor-agnostic
and -- most important of all -- high quality. That number has increased
over the years, but one interesting phenomenon has been that the people
at the top have held onto their spots.
http://www.ecommercetimes.com/story/83027.html

California Bill Would Ban Encrypted Smartphone Sales
California State Assemblyman Jim Cooper last week introduced a bill
seeking to ban the sale of smartphones that include unbreakable
encryption. It would require smartphones made on or after Jan. 1, 2017,
and sold in California to be capable of being decrypted and unlocked by
manufacturers or OS providers. Knowingly failing to comply would subject
a seller or lessor to a fine of $2,500 per device.
http://www.ecommercetimes.com/story/83023.html

Android Is Download King, but iOS Reigns Over Revenues
Worldwide downloads of Android apps in 2015 were double those for iOS,
but revenues from iOS apps were nearly twice those of Android, according
to an App Annie report released this week. First-time device owners in
emerging markets drove the huge increase in Android downloads,
researchers found. "This growth opens up avenues for publishers to
create new markets," the report says.
http://www.ecommercetimes.com/story/83021.html

Foxconn Makes $5.3B Bid for Sharp
Foxconn Technology Group has offered as much as $5.3 billion to purchase
Sharp, according to media reports this week. Foxconn, formally known as
"Hon Hai Precision Industry Co.," is said to have offered between $5.1
billion, or 600 billion yen, and $5.3 billion, or 625 million yen. A
response to the offer is not expected before the end of January, as the
discussions are private.
http://www.ecommercetimes.com/story/83022.html

Consumer Advocates Push FCC on Broadband Privacy Rules
A coalition of 59 organizations on Wednesday sent a letter to U.S.
Federal Communications Commission Chairman Tom Wheeler calling on him to
get cracking on privacy protection rules for consumers. The groups
include consumer advocates such as Consumer Watchdog and the Chicago
Consumer Coalition as well as the Center for Democracy and Technology
and the American Association of Law Libraries.
http://www.ecommercetimes.com/story/83018.html

Apple Stats Reflect Slow Slog Toward Diversification
Apple this week released a diversity report showing that initiatives to
broaden the makeup of its U.S. workforce haven't been as successful as
CEO Tim Cook suggested last year. The EEO-1 report filed with the
federal government covers Apple's 2015 hires in the United States. Its
numbers vary widely from the diversity numbers the company revealed in
August.
http://www.ecommercetimes.com/story/83017.html

ESPN Boss Sees Significant Role for Sling TV
Streaming media services, including Dish Network-owned Sling TV, could
help make up for losses in traditional pay TV subscribers, ESPN
President John Skipper said an interview with The Wall Street Journal
published Tuesday. Sports remains a growth business, he said. It would
be foolish to predict that sports rights -- and therefore prices --
would decline in the near future.
http://www.ecommercetimes.com/story/83014.html

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