E-Commerce Minute

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E-Commerce Minute: Thursday -- February 25, 2016

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Headline Scan
Operation Blockbuster Brings the Fight to Sony Hackers
Gates Sees Both Sides in Apple vs. FBI Ruckus
Mining the Customer Base
The Right Sales Technology Buys Time to Turn B Players Into A Players
Facebook Uses AI to Map Population Density
MasterCard Will Put Selfies to Work for Authentication
IBM Meets VMware and Apple Swift in the Cloud

Today's Story Highlights

Operation Blockbuster Brings the Fight to Sony Hackers
Operation Blockbuster, a coalition of security companies led by Novetta,
on Wednesday published a report detailing the activities of the Lazarus
Group, the organization responsible for the 2014 cyberattack against
Sony Pictures Entertainment. Researchers last week published detection
signatures to the companies' respective software in the hope of
disrupting the group's activities.
http://www.ecommercetimes.com/story/83161.html

Gates Sees Both Sides in Apple vs. FBI Ruckus
Microsoft founder Bill Gates on Tuesday attempted to clarify his
position regarding Apple's conflict with the FBI, telling Bloomberg he
was disappointed that his earlier comments had been construed as taking
the government's side. Apple has sparked a public debate through its
resistance to a court order to unscramble the data on the iPhone used by
one of the San Bernardino terrorists.
http://www.ecommercetimes.com/story/83153.html

Mining the Customer Base
One of the biases inherent in CRM is its orientation toward new
business. This might sound strange to most people, but really, I think
of it as the startup echo chamber. It's a bias in part because CRM was
invented by new companies for new companies. However, the "C" part,
customer, involves more than simply acquiring new ones, especially for
established companies.
http://www.ecommercetimes.com/story/83155.html

The Right Sales Technology Buys Time to Turn B Players Into A Players
In sales, A-B-C does not simply refer to the Alec Baldwin scene in
"Glengarry Glen Ross." It's the system that sales managers (and
salespeople themselves) use to categorize performance. A players smash
their quotas on a regular basis; B players battle to deliver results,
and usually do; C players have a history of missed objectives and should
consider work in another field.
http://www.ecommercetimes.com/story/83152.html

Facebook Uses AI to Map Population Density
Facebook has been using artificial intelligence to sharpen its focus on
the roughly 10 percent of the world that has been overlooked by the
Internet revolution, the company announced Sunday at the Mobile World
Congress. The work has been led by the Connectivity Lab, Facebook's
research and development wing, which is tasked with making the
breakthroughs needed to connect the world to the Internet.
http://www.ecommercetimes.com/story/83150.html

MasterCard Will Put Selfies to Work for Authentication
MasterCard on Monday announced facial recognition and fingerprint
technology that essentially would allow customers to take selfies to
help authenticate their identity when engaged in mobile shopping. The
rollout, which is planned for this summer in the U.S., Canada and part
of Europe, follows a pilot of biometrics by MasterCard and International
Card Services with Dutch participants.
http://www.ecommercetimes.com/story/83148.html

IBM Meets VMware and Apple Swift in the Cloud
IBM on Monday announced cloud-focused deals with VMware and Apple at its
InterConnect conference. The strategic partnership with VMware would
facilitate IBM's positioning in the hybrid cloud services territory and
help the company grow its cloud service offerings, according to IBM.
Enterprises that use VMware technologies will be able to run services on
45 IBM Cloud data centers around the world.
http://www.ecommercetimes.com/story/83147.html

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