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E-Commerce Minute: Thursday -- March 24, 2016

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White House Puts Clamps on Data Center Development
GoDaddy Offers Small Businesses a Place in the Cloud
Amazon Power User Excommunicated
IBM Gloves Up for Public Sector CRM Arena
Supreme Court to End Samsung, Apple Patent Brawl

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Today's Story Highlights

White House Puts Clamps on Data Center Development
The federal program for improving the operation of thousands of
government data centers has entered a new phase that will impact
significantly how electronic information is stored and managed. Proposed
updates to data center operations will affect providers of data
management products and could spur the use of cloud technology. Vendors
have been invited to comment on the proposals by April 1.
http://www.ecommercetimes.com/story/83278.html

GoDaddy Offers Small Businesses a Place in the Cloud
GoDaddy on Monday launched a pay-as-you-go cloud platform along with
applications powered by Bitnami. The tools, Cloud Servers and Cloud
Applications, are designed to help small businesses -- individual devs,
tech entrepreneurs and IT professionals -- quickly build, test and scale
cloud solutions. Provisioning takes 54 seconds or less, GoDaddy said.
http://www.ecommercetimes.com/story/83275.html

Amazon Power User Excommunicated
Amazon has carved another notch in its belt, adding one more customer to
what it has called a "tiny fraction of cases" of people who make too
many returns. The company banned Greg Nelson, a computer programmer,
from shopping at the site because he returned 37 of 343 items purchased,
according to a report last week. The returned products were damaged,
faulty or not as described, Nelson asserted.
http://www.ecommercetimes.com/story/83272.html

IBM Gloves Up for Public Sector CRM Arena
IBM last week announced its acquisition of Optevia, a Software as a
Service systems integrator specializing in Microsoft Dynamics CRM
solutions. It will become part of IBM Global Business Services. Optevia
specializes in the public sector market in the UK, where it is based.
Its focus is on emergency services, central and local government, health
authorities, and housing and social enterprises.
http://www.ecommercetimes.com/story/83273.html

Supreme Court to End Samsung, Apple Patent Brawl
The U.S. Supreme Court on Monday agreed to hear an appeal from Samsung
regarding its patent dispute with Apple. The case stems from a 2011
lawsuit by Apple that alleged Samsung copied certain design elements and
features from the iPhone and iPad and used them in Samsung Galaxy phones
and tablet computers. A jury in 2012 awarded $1 billion to Apple.
http://www.ecommercetimes.com/story/83271.html

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