E-Commerce Minute

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E-Commerce Minute: Tuesday -- October 11, 2016

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Headline Scan
DoL Suit Highlights Asian Glass Ceiling in Tech
Samsung's Galaxy Note7 Assembly Lines Grind to Halt
Bring Back the CIO
Backpage CEO Arrested for Pimping, Child Prostitution
AI's Moment
Newsweek Joins Growing Club of Possible Russian Cyberattack Targets
Who's Riding the New TV Wave?

Today's Story Highlights

DoL Suit Highlights Asian Glass Ceiling in Tech
Longstanding concerns about hiring and diversity issues in Silicon
Valley recently returned to the fore. The Labor Department last month
filed suit against big data firm Palantir, alleging that it had engaged
in a pattern of denying jobs to Asian applicants. Race is a greater
impediment than gender when it comes to breaking through corporate glass
ceilings, suggests research conducted by Ascend.
http://www.ecommercetimes.com/story/83982.html

Samsung's Galaxy Note7 Assembly Lines Grind to Halt
Samsung has stopped production of its problematic Galaxy Note7
smartphones, according to multiple press reports Monday. The company had
been offering replacements of the phone after issuing a recall due to
defective batteries, but all four major carriers have stopped doing so,
presumably because several of the replacements exhibited similar
problems, including smoking and catching fire.
http://www.ecommercetimes.com/story/83978.html

Bring Back the CIO
The cloud revolution has made an enormous contribution to the evolution
of sales and marketing software, as well as to business software of all
types. There's a long list of benefits it's conferred on users -- from
the ability to outsource security and maintenance tasks to the avoidance
of manual upgrade processes, to the switch in payment modes, to a model
more affordable for more businesses.
http://www.ecommercetimes.com/story/83980.html

Backpage CEO Arrested for Pimping, Child Prostitution
Backpage CEO Carl Ferrer is facing extradition to California on charges
his company earned millions of dollars by promoting adult and child
prostitution through escort advertisements run on the site. Ferrer's
arrest took place in Houston upon his return from the Netherlands to the
headquarters of his Dallas-based company, perhaps the largest advertiser
of adult escort services in the U.S.
http://www.ecommercetimes.com/story/83973.html

AI's Moment
There recently has been an increase in the talk -- pro and con -- about
bots, AI and intelligent assistants. A lot of this talk has been
percolating around the industry for decades. Silicon Collar , a book by
Vinnie Mirchandani, a friend and truly gifted analyst, accepts that
automation might be eliminating jobs, but it optimistically holds out
for the silver lining.
http://www.ecommercetimes.com/story/83976.html

Newsweek Joins Growing Club of Possible Russian Cyberattack Targets
Newsweek is the latest media institution to get caught up in a series of
cyberattacks that have targeted major government, political and media
organizations, raising suspicions of links to Russia. The news magazine
sustained a massive DDoS attack the day after it published a cover story
about Republican presidential candidate Donald Trump's business
activities in the late 1990s.
http://www.ecommercetimes.com/story/83968.html

Who's Riding the New TV Wave?
There is a generational shift occurring in the television industry.
Traditional cable TV, which dominated the last several decades, is going
away. Companies like Comcast, Charter and Cox are facing something new:
new technological innovation and competition. Which companies will
survive, and which will not? Traditional cable TV is on the verge of an
extinction event.
http://www.ecommercetimes.com/story/83970.html

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