E-Commerce Minute

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E-Commerce Minute: Monday -- November 18, 2019

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Headline Scan
The Rise of D2C
Google to Offer 'Smart' Checking Accounts
Salesforce and Microsoft in Another Deal
The Information Utility, Continued
Google to Shame Slow-Loading Websites

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Today's Story Highlights

The Rise of D2C
Direct-to-consumer commerce, or D2C, is on the rise. Increasingly,
consumers are expecting to interact directly with the companies that
market and manufacture products. "Direct-to-consumer commerce has been
enhanced by the explosion of the Internet. E-commerce provides a more
convenient and frictionless buying experience," said Peter Edlund, chief
solutions evangelist at DiCentral.
http://www.ecommercetimes.com/story/86365.html

Google to Offer 'Smart' Checking Accounts
Google plans to launch checking accounts next year. "We're exploring how
we can partner with banks and credit unions in the United States to
offer smart checking accounts through Google Pay, helping their
customers benefit from useful insights and budgeting tools," a
spokesperson said. "Our lead partners today are Citibank and the
Stanford Federal Credit Union."
http://www.ecommercetimes.com/story/86356.html

Salesforce and Microsoft in Another Deal
With Dreamforce approaching, it's no surprise that Salesforce is making
a flurry of announcements. What is surprising are two big ones involving
partnering with other vendors, mostly on infrastructure -- announcements
that I believe make the idea of an information utility more real with
each passing day. I see evidence of an information utility forming.
http://www.ecommercetimes.com/story/86359.html

The Information Utility, Continued
I've been sharing my theory on the formation of an information utility
for some time now. Various big vendors have announced alliances with
that kind of aim. For instance, Oracle and Microsoft announced an effort
to make their cloud databases interoperate, and Microsoft and others
have announced common data model projects. Now Salesforce, AWS and
Genesys have teamed up with The Linux Foundation.
http://www.ecommercetimes.com/story/86357.html

Google to Shame Slow-Loading Websites
Google plans to use performance badges to warn users of slow-loading
websites ahead. It will consider historical load latencies first, and
later may expand to signal the likelihood that a page will load slowly
based on the user's device and network conditions. The criteria will
become increasingly stringent over time. The long-term goal is to use
badging to rate qualities beyond speed.
http://www.ecommercetimes.com/story/86354.html

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