E-Commerce Minute

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E-Commerce Minute: Tuesday -- March 13, 2018

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Data Storage, Privacy and Metaphysics: SC Weighs Arguments in MS Case
The VR Experience: Challenges for a Growing Market
The Painfully Persistent B2B Sales and Marketing Divide
Amazon Courts Medicaid Recipients With Deep Prime Discount
Pega Enlists AI to Coach Sales Teams
Where Blockchain Tech Offers the Most Promise
Facebook's Vulnerabilities Surface

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Today's Story Highlights

Data Storage, Privacy and Metaphysics: SC Weighs Arguments in MS Case
How far does the long arm of U.S. law enforcement extend when government
agencies seek electronically processed information? The U.S. Supreme
Court recently addressed that issue in an intriguing session covering
global electronic connectivity, the law, and the significance of
national borders. The discussion came during last month's oral arguments
in U.S. v. Microsoft .
http://www.ecommercetimes.com/story/85194.html

The VR Experience: Challenges for a Growing Market
Virtual reality devices, including headsets and peripherals, offer
consumers and businesses new ways to experience and share immersive
content for entertainment, educational, social and other purposes. VR's
unique capability to promote user interaction through highly immersive
content provides untapped potential in terms of storytelling,
advertising, healthcare, business, travel and much more.
http://www.ecommercetimes.com/story/85192.html

The Painfully Persistent B2B Sales and Marketing Divide
The historical sales and marketing team divide has been getting worse,
suggests a B2B report InsideView released this week. A disconnect
between sales and marketing can have a direct impact on companies' top
and bottom lines. The 995 United States-based sales and marketing
professionals who responded to the InsideView survey came from a cross-
section of industries throughout the country.
http://www.ecommercetimes.com/story/85193.html

Amazon Courts Medicaid Recipients With Deep Prime Discount
Amazon this week expanded its discounted Prime membership program,
already available to EBT card holders, to include Medicaid recipients.
Eligible customers can become Prime members for $5.99 a month, less than
half the regular $12.99 monthly fee. The move -- another step in
Amazon's efforts to reach underserved economic communities -- ratchets
up its competition with Walmart.
http://www.ecommercetimes.com/story/85189.html

Pega Enlists AI to Coach Sales Teams
Pegasystems has launched Pega Sales Coach, an AI-powered addition to
Pega Sales Automation. Pega Sales Automation targets business-to-
business and business-to-consumer companies. It can benefit firms with
100 employees as well as Fortune 500 enterprises with revenues of US$500
million and up, according to Chris Benedetto, Pega's director of product
marketing for sales automation.
http://www.ecommercetimes.com/story/85181.html

Where Blockchain Tech Offers the Most Promise
"Blockchain" is on everyone's lips in the tech industry, with vendors
pushing it for everything from banking and finance to retail and
apparel. "We're going to continue to see tech vendors trying to push
blockchain as the solution to problems that may exist," said Rebecca
Wettemann, VP of research at Nucleus Research. However, it may not be "a
privacy-effective or cost-effective solution."
http://www.ecommercetimes.com/story/85182.html

Facebook's Vulnerabilities Surface
Adam Smith famously referred to "the invisible hand" of the free market
in his landmark book The Wealth of Nations , and with that made himself
one of the very first political economists. Smith's observation was so
on point that most of us assume markets run through the agency of
individuals pursuing their enlightened self-interests, which helped
drive the evolution of CRM as a tracking tool.
http://www.ecommercetimes.com/story/85185.html

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