E-Commerce Minute

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E-Commerce Minute: Saturday -- December 3, 2016

The E-Commerce Times -- E-Business Means Business
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Headline Scan
AWS Announces AI, Hybrid Cloud Innovations
Netflix Offers Offline Option at Long Last
Qualitative Data - the Other Stuff
Zenefits Pays the Piper

Today's Story Highlights

AWS Announces AI, Hybrid Cloud Innovations
Amazon Web Services has introduced a new set of technologies designed to
pull the artificial intelligence expertise developed for its core retail
business into the cloud, while expanding its hybrid cloud technologies
into the field, where data services can use the IoT to access connected
devices. AWS CEO Andy Jassy unveiled the new lineup of services at the
company's annual re:Invent conference.
http://www.ecommercetimes.com/story/84134.html

Netflix Offers Offline Option at Long Last
Giving in to years of customer pressure, Netflix has announced that a
limited number of television shows and movies will be available for
viewing offline without a live connection to the Internet. Customers
have been asking for a way to view content on airplanes or other
locations where Internet service might be unavailable or expensive,
noted Eddy Wu, director of product innovation at Netflix.
http://www.ecommercetimes.com/story/84127.html

Qualitative Data - the Other Stuff
We've become obsessed with big data and analyzing it, though sometimes I
think we get in our own way. The issue is that we preferentially collect
quantitative data as if it were the only thing worth the time. In fact,
quantitative data is but one kind of data, and the information it
provides gives a one-dimensional view of the world. It's not wrong
information -- just incomplete.
http://www.ecommercetimes.com/story/84130.html

Zenefits Pays the Piper
The California Department of Insurance this week announced fines
totaling $7 million against startup Zenefits, a provider of cloud-based
human resources services. The company's former leadership "created an
anything goes culture at the Internet startup, resulting in numerous
violations of licensing requirements to protect consumers," said
Insurance Commissioner Dave Jones.
http://www.ecommercetimes.com/story/84125.html

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