E-Commerce Minute

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E-Commerce Minute: Friday -- April 15, 2016

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Headline Scan
Senate Committee Hears Litany of IRS Cybersecurity Failings
FBI Paid Hackers to Defeat Security of Shooter's iPhone
Publishers vs. Brave Software: Battle for the Ad Viewer
ESPN Adds Drone Racing to Its Summer Schedule
Crafting an Online Strategy, Part 2: Where to Sell What You Make
Amazon's Kindle Oasis: Lightness of Being at an Unbearable Price?
Male Snubbing Ride-Sharing Service Postpones Launch
Fake Loyalty
Officials Named in Panama Papers Cower Behind China's Great Firewall

Today's Story Highlights

Senate Committee Hears Litany of IRS Cybersecurity Failings
The U.S. Internal Revenue Service's cybersecurity measures are woefully
inadequate, according to testimony presented this week to the Senate
Finance Committee. The hearing was convened to look into how the IRS is
safeguarding taxpayer information this filing season and to determine
improvements, said Sen. Orrin Hatch. Agencies, tax preparers and
Congress have failed taxpayers, Sen. Ron Wyden said.
http://www.ecommercetimes.com/story/83371.html

FBI Paid Hackers to Defeat Security of Shooter's iPhone
The FBI paid hackers to break onto the iPhone of the San Bernardino,
California, shooter, according to a news report published Tuesday. The
bureau obtained the services of gray hats, insiders said, and apparently
did not get help from Cellebrite, as earlier reports had suggested. Gray
hats are hackers who sell flaws to governments or companies that make
surveillance tools.
http://www.ecommercetimes.com/story/83368.html

Publishers vs. Brave Software: Battle for the Ad Viewer
Brave Software is a startup that has ratcheted the ad-blocking game to a
new level, and it is raising a lot of stink in the online community. For
many people, Web-based ads have become an intolerable, costly
distraction. That has led to a variety of ad-blocking approaches. The
use of ad-blocking software is growing, because users feel they are
being attacked by distracting Web-based ads.
http://www.ecommercetimes.com/story/83366.html

ESPN Adds Drone Racing to Its Summer Schedule
The International Drone Racing Association and ESPN on Wednesday
announced a multiyear international media distribution deal. Under the
partnership, the network will showcase the 2016 U.S. National Drone
Racing Championships, which will be held on Governors Island in New York
City this summer. The national championships and the 2016 World Drone
Racing Championships will be streamed live on ESPN3.
http://www.ecommercetimes.com/story/83365.html

Crafting an Online Strategy, Part 2: Where to Sell What You Make
You're making soap or jewelry or handcrafted leather bags, and you want
to sell them online. Where do you go? What spaces work best? How do you
decide where to sell your wares? It's important to choose the right
selling spaces for your products and business strategy. Selling on your
own site lets you control how your products are represented, while
third-party sites offer a network of customers.
http://www.ecommercetimes.com/story/83358.html

Amazon's Kindle Oasis: Lightness of Being at an Unbearable Price?
Amazon on Wednesday launched the Kindle Oasis -- the latest upgrade to
its popular line of e-readers. Along with features that are arguably
revolutionary, it comes with a price point that may shock more than a
few customers. The Oasis is the thinnest and lightest e-reader it has
ever produced, Amazon said. Without the cover, it weighs in at just 4.6
ounces and is only 3.4 mm at its thinnest point.
http://www.ecommercetimes.com/story/83353.html

Male Snubbing Ride-Sharing Service Postpones Launch
Chariot for Women, a ride-sharing service that excludes males 13 and
older, reportedly has postponed its launch to sometime this summer due
to heavier-than-anticipated demand. The company originally had planned
to debut the service in Boston next week. Chariot for Women is open to
all women, including transgender women. Children, including boys under
the age of 13, also may ride.
http://www.ecommercetimes.com/story/83362.html

Fake Loyalty
There's an interesting connection between customer relationships in
subscription businesses and loyalty, Zuora CEO Tien Tzuo wrote recently.
His article had particular resonance for me, since I just wrote a book
about customer loyalty myself. My research is full of old-style
approaches to customer loyalty that aren't really about loyalty so much
as they are about, shall we say, customer coercion.
http://www.ecommercetimes.com/story/83363.html

Officials Named in Panama Papers Cower Behind China's Great Firewall
Chinese authorities have issued censorship instructions to the media
following the release of the Panama Papers, according to news reports
published last week. The leaked documents reportedly listed several top
Chinese officials who used Panamanian law firm Mossack Fonseca to set up
offshore companies. The names include President Xi Jinping's brother-in-
law Deng Jiagui.
http://www.ecommercetimes.com/story/83359.html

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