E-Commerce Minute

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E-Commerce Minute: Friday -- March 24, 2017

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Headline Scan
Medium Is Looking for a Few Good Founding Members
Advertisers Flee YouTube Over Offensive Ad Placements
LinkedIn Burnishes Sales Navigator for the Enterprise
Trending Storylines Hone LinkedIn's Relevance
Blockchain: CRM's Next Frontier
Walmart Launches 'Store No. 8' E-Commerce Venture
Intelligence-Driven Supply Chain Resilience
ProsperWorks Adds In-App Comms to its Google CRM Solution
Dun & Bradstreet Marketing Database Exposed
Verizon Wakes Up to Join Mobile TV Race

Today's Story Highlights

Medium Is Looking for a Few Good Founding Members
Medium, the online publishing platform launched by Twitter cofounder
Evan Williams, has announced a $5 monthly subscription membership
upgrade that promises a better reading experience and better content.
Medium on Thursday opened the subscription offer to a limited number of
people who meet certain criteria, according to Williams, who is Medium's
CEO.
http://www.ecommercetimes.com/story/84404.html

Advertisers Flee YouTube Over Offensive Ad Placements
Several top U.S. advertisers -- including AT&T, Verizon and Johnson &
Johnson -- this week pulled out of their agreements with YouTube due to
their ads appearing with videos advocating extremism, or with other
offensive content. Such placements represent violations of their
agreements with Google. "We are deeply concerned that our ads may have
appeared alongside YouTube content promoting terrorism and hate," AT&T
said.
http://www.ecommercetimes.com/story/84403.html

LinkedIn Burnishes Sales Navigator for the Enterprise
LinkedIn on Tuesday launched an enterprise edition of its Sales
Navigator product, with strengthened links to CRM. LinkedIn Enterprise
Edition lets users send 50 emails on LinkedIn a month; adds Single Sign-
On and other management features; and introduces TeamLink Extend, a tool
that pools the networks of all the Sales Navigator users in an
enterprise.
http://www.ecommercetimes.com/story/84400.html

Trending Storylines Hone LinkedIn's Relevance
LinkedIn has begun rolling out Trending Storylines, offering curated
feeds of the most interesting developing stories in a member's industry.
Storylines are personalized for members through a combination of
algorithms and the choices of LinkedIn's editorial team. The feeds may
include perspectives from relevant influencers and news sources, as well
as individuals in the member's network.
http://www.ecommercetimes.com/story/84397.html

Blockchain: CRM's Next Frontier
We've seen a parade of technologies coming into the front office since
2000, including browser-based cloud computing, social media, mobile
technology, workflow, journey mapping, and big data and analytics. It's
typical that at first there's only a tenuous relationship between the
technology and CRM's original mission, but over a short time innovators
adopt and commercialize the innovation.
http://www.ecommercetimes.com/story/84398.html

Walmart Launches 'Store No. 8' E-Commerce Venture
Marc Lore, CEO of Walmart eCommerce U.S., on Tuesday discussed the
company's plans to launch a new venture, called "Store No. 8," which
will operate as a Silicon Valley incubator for new online stores. The
move reflects Walmart's ambition to catch up to Amazon in the e-commerce
retail space. Lore unveiled the plans at the annual Shoptalk conference
in Las Vegas.
http://www.ecommercetimes.com/story/84394.html

Intelligence-Driven Supply Chain Resilience
Information security practices are undergoing a transformation. For at
least a decade, environments have been becoming less perimeter-centric:
Gone are the good old days when in-line controls protected the trusted,
safe interior from the "wild west" of the outside. As environments
become more complex and externalized, the traditional "perimeter" loses
meaning.
http://www.ecommercetimes.com/story/84389.html

ProsperWorks Adds In-App Comms to its Google CRM Solution
ProsperWorks, which provides CRM for Google's G Suite business tools,
last week announced the addition of in-app cloud communications
functionality. The new features are available through a custom
integration with RingCentral, which provides enterprise cloud
communications and collaboration solutions. The integration lets users
make, receive and log calls without leaving the CRM solution.
http://www.ecommercetimes.com/story/84383.html

Dun & Bradstreet Marketing Database Exposed
A Dun & Bradstreet database, 52 GB in size and containing more than 33.6
million records with very specific details, has been exposed.
Cybersecurity researcher Troy Hunt, who received it for study, on
Wednesday confirmed that the records already were organized and
developed as if intended for distribution to a potential client. The
database apparently was compiled for the use of marketers.
http://www.ecommercetimes.com/story/84387.html

Verizon Wakes Up to Join Mobile TV Race
Following decades of slow movement due to cable companies facing no
competition, the television world is changing rapidly. Lots of
challengers have arisen in the pay-TV space in recent years. One of the
latest comes from Verizon, which has improved its FiOS mobile app to
offer data-free streaming. AT&T's DirecTV started this ball rolling with
its wireless TV, or mobile TV, offering.
http://www.ecommercetimes.com/story/84385.html

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