E-Commerce Minute

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E-Commerce Minute: Friday -- November 30, 2018

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Headline Scan
AWS Thinks Inside the Box With Outposts Data Center Revival
DoJ Takes Down Online Ad Fraud Ring, Indicts 8
Amazon's Shift
Salesforce's Earnings Mystery
The Unsustainability of Black Friday and Cyber Monday for E-Commerce

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AWS Thinks Inside the Box With Outposts Data Center Revival
Amazon introduced AWS Outposts at its AWS re:Invent conference in Las
Vegas. The new system, which provides AWS-branded boxes for use in
traditional data centers, will allow the company to make advances into
the world of on-premises storage, taking on legacy hardware vendors
including Cisco, Dell, and Hewlett Packard Enterprise. Outposts
technology can run on rival vendors' data center equipment.
http://www.ecommercetimes.com/story/85711.html

DoJ Takes Down Online Ad Fraud Ring, Indicts 8
The DoJ has revealed an unsealed indictment of eight defendants for
crimes related to their involvement in widespread digital advertising
fraud. The DoJ alleges the eight individuals were behind two global
schemes, 3ve and Methbot, which stole tens of millions of dollars
through a scam that used fake Web traffic and fake websites to reap ad
view revenue from unwitting advertisers.
http://www.ecommercetimes.com/story/85707.html

Amazon's Shift
Andy Jassy, CEO of Amazon Web Services, announced that AWS customers
would be off all Oracle databases by the end of 2019 and running on one
of Amazon's database products. This is not the first time the market has
heard something like this, but this time could be different. The
statement comes on the heels of Amazon spending significant coin on
Oracle licenses a few months ago.
http://www.ecommercetimes.com/story/85710.html

Salesforce's Earnings Mystery
My only question about Salesforce's recent revenue announcement is why
the company described the vast majority of its nonprofessional services
revenues as "subscription and support." Proserv revenues were
appropriately small, at $224 million, while subscription and support was
$3.17 billion, or 26 percent more than the same quarter a year earlier.
Nice going, by the way.
http://www.ecommercetimes.com/story/85708.html

The Unsustainability of Black Friday and Cyber Monday for E-Commerce
Black Friday made its debut sometime in the 1960s as the day to help
retailers move from the red to the black in profits. The day-after-
Thanksgiving shopping extravaganza has grown well beyond its roots since
then. Last year, at the peak of Black Friday, shoppers were spending
nearly $1 million per minute. However, the origins of Black Friday were
pre-Internet.
http://www.ecommercetimes.com/story/85704.html

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