E-Commerce Minute

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E-Commerce Minute: Friday -- July 28, 2017

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Headline Scan
Russian Head of $4B Bitcoin Exchange Charged in Massive Money Laundering Scheme
How Amazon Is Transforming Retail
Changing B2B Marketplace Calls for New Sales Skills
Facebook to Launch Paywall in Response to Publisher Pushback
Sage Buys Intacct
FTC to Take a Gander at Amazon's Discount Pricing Practices
Zoho Launches All-in-One Business Suite for SMBs
New Cybersecurity Policy Will Impact Federal IT Market
Elon Musk: Luddite?
V2V's Place in an Increasingly Connected World
SEO, SEM Rule Retailers' Marketing Budgets

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Today's Story Highlights

Russian Head of $4B Bitcoin Exchange Charged in Massive Money Laundering Scheme
A grand jury in the Northern District of California indicted a Russian
man for running a massive money laundering operation through the BTC-e
bitcoin exchange, a group of federal officials announced Wednesday. The
exchange allegedly received up to $4 billion in proceeds from various
criminal activities, including the 2014 hack of the Mt. Gox bitcoin
exchange.
http://www.ecommercetimes.com/story/84708.html

How Amazon Is Transforming Retail
Amazon's plan to buy Whole Foods Market has raised many new questions.
If the company is successful in making the acquisition, and then
successful in operating the business, it could transform the entire
grocery industry. If we pull the camera back, we can see how success on
the grocery side could foreshadow Amazon's success in many other parts
of the retail environment.
http://www.ecommercetimes.com/story/84703.html

Changing B2B Marketplace Calls for New Sales Skills
There are three key moments when salespeople can maximize the value in a
customer relationship instead of allowing it to leak out, according to
Corporate Visions, which announced a new sales skills program on
Thursday. Those three turning points occur during deal negotiations,
when securing customer renewals, and introducing strategic price
increases, the company said.
http://www.ecommercetimes.com/story/84707.html

Facebook to Launch Paywall in Response to Publisher Pushback
Facebook last week confirmed its plan to launch a paywall for content
providers, a move that could ease longstanding tensions with traditional
publishers who objected to giving away their print stories for free.
Campbell Brown, former CNN and NBC News journalist and current head of
Facebook's news partnerships unit, announced the plan at a New York
digital media forum.
http://www.ecommercetimes.com/story/84699.html

Sage Buys Intacct
Sage's Tuesday announcement of its agreement to buy Intacct prompts a
multilayered look at the evolution of the cloud ERP space. Both
companies are partners with Salesforce and have products based on the
Salesforce platform. Each is a member of the AppExchange, and both are
situated in the broad cloud ERP space, which has been receiving a lot of
attention lately as the market seems to be moving en masse, albeit
glacially, to the cloud.
http://www.ecommercetimes.com/story/84700.html

FTC to Take a Gander at Amazon's Discount Pricing Practices
The FTC reportedly is looking into Amazon's discount pricing practices
in response to a complaint filed by Consumer Watchdog over the company's
pending $14 billion purchase of the Whole Foods grocery chain. "Asking
informal questions about issues potentially related to a corporate
acquisition is a natural part of the FTC review process," observed
Charles King, principal analyst at Pund-IT.
http://www.ecommercetimes.com/story/84696.html

Zoho Launches All-in-One Business Suite for SMBs
Zoho has launched Zoho One, an all-in-one business suite comprised of
more than 35 integrated Web applications and an equal number of mobile
apps. The suite offers single sign-on with centralized administration
and provisioning. Each user has one secure account and access to the
entire suite. An admin panel enables and controls access, which
simplifies provisioning, access and audit.
http://www.ecommercetimes.com/story/84698.html

New Cybersecurity Policy Will Impact Federal IT Market
Federal agencies already under the gun to modernize their information
technology capabilities have a new set of standards to meet as a result
of an executive order President Donald Trump issued this spring. The
directive not only will affect agency managers in their IT operations
and acquisition activities, but also will have a significant effect on
IT vendors.
http://www.ecommercetimes.com/story/84693.html

Elon Musk: Luddite?
It's hard to believe that the founder of Tesla Motors and SpaceX could
have such reactionary views about AI. Elon Musk last weekend had some
very un-Musk-like things to say about AI when he addressed the U.S.
National Governors Association meeting in Providence, Rhode Island. "AI
is a fundamental existential risk for human civilization, and I don't
think people fully appreciate that," Musk said.
http://www.ecommercetimes.com/story/84694.html

V2V's Place in an Increasingly Connected World
You're probably tired of reading that the Internet of Things is the
hottest thing going, and that IoT is a boon to technology and,
simultaneously, a potential disaster for security and privacy. However,
over the past few years, another IoT-related technology has been
growing: vehicle to vehicle. V2V is a way for automobiles to communicate
directly with other vehicles on the road.
http://www.ecommercetimes.com/story/84690.html

SEO, SEM Rule Retailers' Marketing Budgets
Retailers have been focusing on technologies to measure and assess
customer response, and have been using the data they produce to drive e-
commerce decisions, suggests a study of 136 enterprise retailers.
Enterprise retailers with at least $500 million in annual revenues
participated in the study, which was a joint effort of Adam Software, an
Aprimo company; WBR Digital; and ChannelAdvisor.
http://www.ecommercetimes.com/story/84691.html

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