E-Commerce Minute

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E-Commerce Minute: Wednesday -- December 7, 2016

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Headline Scan
How Amazon Could Reshape More Industries in 2017
Amazon's Register-Free Grocery Shopping Could Disrupt Retail
Twitter Buys Yes for Product VP Talent
2016: The Year in Review
Fitbit May Pick Up Pebble
Aptean SVP Matt Keenan: CRM Needs to Be Intuitive

Today's Story Highlights

How Amazon Could Reshape More Industries in 2017
Anyone who attended the recent AWS re:Invent conference -- or watched
many sessions online, as I did -- probably is still trying to absorb the
full implications of all of the company's initiatives unveiled at the
event. Although AWS already has redefined the computing and software
development industries fundamentally, with its groundbreaking IaaS
offerings, it isn't resting on its laurels.
http://www.ecommercetimes.com/story/84145.html

Amazon's Register-Free Grocery Shopping Could Disrupt Retail
Amazon on Monday unveiled a prototype convenience store called "Amazon
Go," which uses mobile e-commerce, machine learning and computer vision
to allow customers to make purchases without a cashier. The 1,800 square
foot concept store in Seattle uses the company's Just Walk Out
technology, which incorporates many of the same concepts found in self-
driving cars, Amazon said.
http://www.ecommercetimes.com/story/84141.html

Twitter Buys Yes for Product VP Talent
Twitter has purchased Yes and named the mobile app startup's CEO, Keith
Coleman, as its new VP of product -- a challenging post. Coleman will be
Twitter's third VP of product this year and the fifth since 2014.
Twitter's main problems are monetization, which has plagued it since its
founding; slowing user growth; and stiff competition. Coleman's
supporters cite his previous experience at Google.
http://www.ecommercetimes.com/story/84139.html

2016: The Year in Review
This year will go down as an important turning point in CRM. For the
last decade and a half, we've been simultaneously building and
destroying CRM -- first by linking all of the disparate databases to get
that 360-degree view, and then by adding important accessories like
social and analytics. At the same time, we've been busy tearing down
conventional architectures and spinning up the cloud.
http://www.ecommercetimes.com/story/84142.html

Fitbit May Pick Up Pebble
Fitbit, the leader in the wearables category, is close to an agreement
to buy struggling smartwatch maker Pebble for up to $40 million, in a
move to gain the firm's intellectual property and software. The
negotiations follow several months of financial turmoil at Pebble, which
reportedly slashed its workforce by 25 percent in March and has rebuffed
several prior offers to be acquired.
http://www.ecommercetimes.com/story/84137.html

Aptean SVP Matt Keenan: CRM Needs to Be Intuitive
There are three significant trends in CRM right now, according to Matt
Keenan, SVP of Aptean's product group. "The first is the rapid evolution
of human-system interaction. Gone are the days of sitting in front of a
laptop and interacting with CRM. Customers are looking for multiple
channels. The way people are interacting with applications and data is
evolving radically."
http://www.ecommercetimes.com/story/84136.html

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