E-Commerce Minute

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E-Commerce Minute: Thursday -- October 12, 2017

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Headline Scan
FTC Tightens Screws on Social Media Influencers
Walmart Throws Down Gauntlet to Amazon
Container Runtime Brings Greater Flexibility to Kubernetes and BOSH
Salesforce Gets Granular

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Today's Story Highlights

FTC Tightens Screws on Social Media Influencers
Social media influencer advertising has become a major factor in e-
commerce. Marketers of both big and small brands long have committed
large chunks of their advertising budgets to endorsements by well-known
personalities. Social media influencer campaigns are based on that
tried-and-true formula, but the implication is that the endorsements are
voluntary.
http://www.ecommercetimes.com/story/84876.html

Walmart Throws Down Gauntlet to Amazon
Walmart on Tuesday outlined plans to grow its critically important e-
commerce business in the U.S. by 40 percent over the next fiscal year.
The company intends to leverage a series of key acquisitions and its
more than 4,600 brick-and-mortar locations to mount a direct challenge
to Amazon for millennial customers. Walmart is the largest retail
operation in the world and the leading U.S. challenger to Amazon.
http://www.ecommercetimes.com/story/84872.html

Container Runtime Brings Greater Flexibility to Kubernetes and BOSH
The Cloud Foundry Foundation has launched Container Runtime as the
default deployment and management platform for containers using
Kubernetes and BOSH. The foundation announced Container Runtime at its
annual European user conference. Cloud Foundry is an open source
Platform as a Service offering used for building and managing
applications in the cloud or in data centers.
http://www.ecommercetimes.com/story/84874.html

Salesforce Gets Granular
If you need an example of digital disruption, you can't do better than
the retail banking industry. A byzantine collection of rules and
regulations plus the overhang of many legacy systems have conspired to
prevent banks from becoming more involved with their customers. Even
innovations like the ATM, which entered the scene several decades ago,
only serve to distance banks from their customers.
http://www.ecommercetimes.com/story/84873.html

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