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E-Commerce Minute: Friday -- January 8, 2016

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Headline Scan
Uber Settles With New York AG After 'Playing God' With Data
Investor Calls for Leadership Changes at Yahoo
Analyst Briefings at CES: One Shot Is Not Enough
Apple Rings In 2016 With Record App Sales
Yahoo Rolls Up Screen
China Levels Antitrust Allegations Against Microsoft
The EPA, Social Media and Politics
Loyalty and Engagement
PCs May Not Be Ready for VR's Breakout Year

Today's Story Highlights

Uber Settles With New York AG After 'Playing God' With Data
New York Attorney General Eric Schneiderman on Thursday announced a deal
that would require Uber to encrypt geolocation information about its
riders, as well as enhance its data security practices. The AG opened an
investigation into Uber in 2014, in response to allegations that the
service had tracked riders and displayed their locations in an aerial
format, known internally as the "God View."
http://www.ecommercetimes.com/story/82950.html

Investor Calls for Leadership Changes at Yahoo
Activist investor Starboard Value, which has dogged Yahoo over the
years, on Wednesday sent a letter to the company demanding it make
changes or face a proxy fight. Yahoo "made the right decision" by
suspending the Alibaba spinoff, but "the continued downward spiral of
Yahoo's core Search and Display advertising businesses" has been
"frustrating for us, and likely for you," the letter states.
http://www.ecommercetimes.com/story/82949.html

Analyst Briefings at CES: One Shot Is Not Enough
Why do so many companies fail at industry analyst relations? Since the
best answer might come from an industry analyst, I'll share a few
thoughts with you. I'll also share some secrets for building a
successful long-term technology analyst program. Hint: It's about being
on the growth side of the wave. This is a good week to address this
issue, since CES 2016 is taking place in Las Vegas.
http://www.ecommercetimes.com/story/82944.html

Apple Rings In 2016 With Record App Sales
Apple on Wednesday announced that customers spent a record $1.1 billion
on apps and in-app purchases the during the holidays. Jan. 1 was the App
Store's best day ever, with consumers spending about $144 million, the
company said. Since 2008, the store has generated close to $40 billion
in revenue for developers. Consumers spent more than $20 billion in the
store last year.
http://www.ecommercetimes.com/story/82948.html

Yahoo Rolls Up Screen
Yahoo has shut down its Yahoo Screen on-demand streaming video hub,
according to news reports. The hub's offerings included a National
Football League game played in London, licensed clips of shows such as
"Saturday Night Live," and a number of original series. The company had
to write off $42 million in losses stemming from running original
series, Yahoo's third-quarter report states.
http://www.ecommercetimes.com/story/82943.html

China Levels Antitrust Allegations Against Microsoft
China's State Administration for Industry and Commerce on Tuesday
launched the latest in a series of investigations against Microsoft for
possible violations of the country's antimonopoly law. Back in July
2014, about 100 SAIC officials burst into four Microsoft offices in
various parts of China and copied contracts and records, downloaded data
from company servers, and questioned executives.
http://www.ecommercetimes.com/story/82941.html

The EPA, Social Media and Politics
Before the Internet, messages were spread by television and newspaper
ads and highway billboards. Today that is done through social media.
Virtually everyone knows about it, and many people use it. Does it make
any sense that a U.S. government agency could violate any laws for using
social media to carry out its mission? That doesn't make sense to me.
http://www.ecommercetimes.com/story/82939.html

Loyalty and Engagement
I've been trying to analyze modern rewards programs and customer loyalty
recently for a project. It's a complex issue and so it is tricky to
tease apart -- nothing like trying to defuse a bomb, but intellectually
challenging for sure. At the heart of the issue is a body of research
that says rewards, as currently configured, don't work in the ways we
want.
http://www.ecommercetimes.com/story/82940.html

PCs May Not Be Ready for VR's Breakout Year
Will 2016 be a breakaway year for virtual reality technology? Exhibitors
at CES 2016 this week seem to think so. More than three dozen of them
will be flogging their VR wares at the show, more than double the number
from last year. "2016 will be the year of VR," said Brian Blau, a
research director at Gartner. "That's pretty clear with all the hardware
that's going to be coming on the market."
http://www.ecommercetimes.com/story/82936.html

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