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E-Commerce Minute: Wednesday -- March 9, 2016

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Headline Scan
Mainstream Industries Form IoT Vanguard
Reviled People-Rating App Slithers Into Action
Ransomware Plague Spreads to Macs
Google's Loons to Glide Over India
Supreme Court Denial Closes Apple's E-Book Case
The Technological Evolution of US Healthcare
Generation Customer: Defined by Attitude, Not Age

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Today's Story Highlights

Mainstream Industries Form IoT Vanguard
Although the consumer implications of the IoT have generated plenty of
public attention, the real growth in the embryonic market is coming from
less visible industrial environments and business applications. The
early IoT advancements may come as a surprise to some, but in these
industries, organizations moving quickly to deploy more connected
products and services makes sense.
http://www.ecommercetimes.com/story/83210.html

Reviled People-Rating App Slithers Into Action
With its reputation preceding it, Peeple on Monday launched on the
iTunes App Store. The goal of the app is to help people better
understand each other, according to the company. It was designed for
people who need to display their reputation to others, including
freelancers, business owners, employees, teachers and coaches. Users can
leverage social media platforms to share their recommendations.
http://www.ecommercetimes.com/story/83208.html

Ransomware Plague Spreads to Macs
Researchers at Palo Alto Networks last week announced that they had
found the first ransomware in the wild aimed at Macintosh computers, but
Apple and one of its developers quickly neutered it. The ransomware -- a
malware program that scrambles data on a computer and won't unscramble
it unless a ransom is paid -- was embedded in software for installing an
OS X app for sharing files on BitTorrent.
http://www.ecommercetimes.com/story/83206.html

Google's Loons to Glide Over India
Google has been in talks with telecom service providers in India to
bring its Project Loon to the subcontinent, Rajan Anandan, Google's
managing director for Southeast Asia and India, said in an interview
published Monday. The project would deliver Internet access via balloons
floating thousands of feet in the air. It is Google's latest effort to
bring Internet access to remote parts of Asia.
http://www.ecommercetimes.com/story/83202.html

Supreme Court Denial Closes Apple's E-Book Case
The U.S. Supreme Court on Monday denied without comment Apple's petition
for a review of a lower court ruling that it engaged in price-fixing of
e-books. The company must comply with a $450 million settlement it
reached with 33 states and territories and a private class of e-book
purchasers that, together with the U.S. Department of Justice, sued it
over the issue.
http://www.ecommercetimes.com/story/83201.html

The Technological Evolution of US Healthcare
The disease management industry, which focuses on reducing or delaying
the use of expensive treatments or costly procedures, has passed its
prime as a unique approach to controlling escalating costs attributed to
chronic conditions. It worked on the sickest of the sick, but as patient
conditions progressed and engagement levels decreased, it gradually lost
its effectiveness.
http://www.ecommercetimes.com/story/83198.html

Generation Customer: Defined by Attitude, Not Age
I hate the idea of chopping our population into generations: the
Greatest Generation, the baby boomers, Generation X, Generation Y,
millennials and so on. The assumption is that everyone born during an
arbitrarily selected time period shares certain traits. It also results
in people projecting ideas -- often romantic ones -- onto huge groups of
people.
http://www.ecommercetimes.com/story/83200.html

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