E-Commerce Minute

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E-Commerce Minute: Thursday -- January 26, 2017

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Headline Scan
Google Gets Rid of 1.7 Billion Bad Ads
New FCC Chair Ajit Pai Vows to Kill Net Neutrality Rules
Top CRM Blogs of 2016: Countdown, Part 2
Barra Leaves Post as Xiaomi's International Point Man
The Old Man and the Tsunami: A Security Story
Oracle's Important Little Acquisition
Samsung's Note7 Post Mortem Turns Up 2 Problems

Today's Story Highlights

Google Gets Rid of 1.7 Billion Bad Ads
Google removed 1.7 billion bad advertisements from its various sites in
2016, more than double the prior year's totals. Google took several
steps to crack down on the deceptive advertising, including updating its
policies to protect users from "misleading and predatory offers." It
also beefed up its technology to help identify misleading ads and remove
them.
http://www.ecommercetimes.com/story/84258.html

New FCC Chair Ajit Pai Vows to Kill Net Neutrality Rules
President Donald Trump on Monday named Ajit Pai chairman of the FCC.
Pai, who has been a Republican commissioner for the agency since 2012,
replaced Tom Wheeler, whom President Obama appointed to the top post in
late 2013. With the new administration, Republicans gain the expected
majority of the commission. Pai has been known to be a foe of former
President Barack Obama's Net neutrality rules.
http://www.ecommercetimes.com/story/84253.html

Top CRM Blogs of 2016: Countdown, Part 2
There's something to be said for consistency. Baseball Hall-of-Famer
Tony Gwynn hit over .300 19 years in a row. The swallows have returned
to Mission San Juan Capistrano every year since 1812. Richard Belzer
played Detective John Munch in nine different television series over 23
years. Doing things well for a long time should earn you some attention
for your efforts.
http://www.ecommercetimes.com/story/84254.html

Barra Leaves Post as Xiaomi's International Point Man
Almost four years after being poached from a critical post at Google to
join Chinese upstart Xiaomi, Hugo Barra on Monday announced he will
return to Silicon Valley in February. Barra, who led the Xiaomi's
overseas expansion as vice president, international, explained the move
largely as a desire to reconnect with his family and restore a sense of
normalcy to his life.
http://www.ecommercetimes.com/story/84252.html

The Old Man and the Tsunami: A Security Story
There's a folk-story that all Japanese schoolchildren learn about an old
man who lives in a village by the sea. One day, an earthquake hits. He's
the only person in the village to realize that a tsunami will soon
follow. He hurries to the nearby mountainside where the rice for the
village is grown and sets the entire harvest aflame. All of the
villagers race to the mountainside to deal with the conflagration --
their rice is their most precious resource.
http://www.ecommercetimes.com/story/84250.html

Oracle's Important Little Acquisition
Oracle last week announced the acquisition of Apiary, a small company
that tucks into its product line and will not make much of a splash in
the financial pages or possibly even in tech circles. Nonetheless, it's
important strategic news. The value of the deal wasn't publicized -- but
given the parameters, the dollars will get lost in the rounding of
Oracle's overall revenue and profit numbers.
http://www.ecommercetimes.com/story/84251.html

Samsung's Note7 Post Mortem Turns Up 2 Problems
Samsung is set to release the results of its Galaxy Note7 investigation
on Monday, explaining the underlying causes of the problems that led to
the phone's demise. The three independent quality control and supply
chain analysis firms Samsung engaged to conduct the investigation
concluded that the Note7 was affected by two separate issues. One was a
battery issue; the other was the rush to market.
http://www.ecommercetimes.com/story/84248.html

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