E-Commerce Minute

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E-Commerce Minute: Tuesday -- November 29, 2016

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Headline Scan
CNN Taps Beme Talent to Cultivate Millennials
Feds Need to Bolster Cyberprotection Speed and Range
Service in the IoT Era
Cyber Monday Is Bigger Than One Day
Black Friday's $9B Weekend Haul Shatters Records
Black Friday Shoppers Hungry for New Experiences, New Tech

Today's Story Highlights

CNN Taps Beme Talent to Cultivate Millennials
CNN has acquired Beme, the startup cofounded by YouTube sensation Casey
Neistat, the companies announced Monday. CNN plans to launch a new
branded subsidiary featuring timely and topical video content by the
summer of 2017. It will be led by a team including the Beme cofounders,
under a name as yet undecided, with CNN providing funding. Financial
terms of the acquisition were not disclosed.
http://www.ecommercetimes.com/story/84116.html

Feds Need to Bolster Cyberprotection Speed and Range
Providing cybersecurity adequate to meet increasing threats is a
perpetual catch-up process. Public sector agencies are particularly
sensitive targets, with high visibility not only to the citizens they
serve, but also to cyberattackers. A recent survey uncovered both a lack
of speed in detecting and responding to attacks, and weak defenses of
the full range of possible attack channels.
http://www.ecommercetimes.com/story/84114.html

Service in the IoT Era
Oracle recently announced a new connection between its Service and IoT
clouds. That makes total sense to me. I bet a lot of folks think of the
Internet of Things as those machines that do things directed by
algorithms -- and if so, they might wonder why they need to be connected
to customer service, such an obviously human channel. It's not off base,
however.
http://www.ecommercetimes.com/story/84113.html

Cyber Monday Is Bigger Than One Day
Although online retailers on Monday offered deals to jumpstart the
online holiday shopping season, Cyber Monday as a one-day event could be
losing some of its attraction. Many retailers jumped the gun, and have
been offering special online deals for days. Cyber Monday in recent
years has ranked as the third largest holiday shopping day, following
Super Saturday and Black Friday.
http://www.ecommercetimes.com/story/84111.html

Black Friday's $9B Weekend Haul Shatters Records
Shoppers came out in droves over the Black Friday weekend, spending a
record $9.36 billion, a 16.4 percent increase from a year ago, according
to Adobe Digital Insights. Black Friday sales hit a new record of $3.34
billion, a 21 percent jump from a year ago. This was the first-ever
Black Friday with sales exceeding $3 billion. Thanksgiving Day sales
were up 11.5 percent from a year ago.
http://www.ecommercetimes.com/story/84110.html

Black Friday Shoppers Hungry for New Experiences, New Tech
Many consumers will rush to shopping malls and give their mobile devices
a workout later this week. Fifty-nine percent of the U.S. population, or
137.4 million shoppers, is expected to hunt for bargains over Black
Friday weekend, according to new survey from the National Retail
Federation. The figures are up slightly from 58.7 percent, or 135.8
million shoppers, a year ago.
http://www.ecommercetimes.com/story/84106.html

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