E-Commerce Minute

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E-Commerce Minute: Friday -- July 29, 2016

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Headline Scan
The Wonderful, Worrisome World of Self-Driving Cars
Public-Private Team Leads Assault on Ransomware
Oracle Hauls In NetSuite
Apple Earnings Sag on Lower iPhone Price Points
Nintendo's Q1 Reflects Struggles Unrelated to Pokemon Go Success
Xactly CEO Christopher Cabrera: Understanding CRM's Boundaries
KickassTorrents Owner Faces 20-Plus Years in Stir
Gamification's Serious Role in Sales Success
Amazon Sidles Into Student Loans
Yahoo Deal Could Put Verizon in Google and Facebook's League

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Today's Story Highlights

The Wonderful, Worrisome World of Self-Driving Cars
There seem to be warning stickers for everything. There may soon be a
new sticker for the autonomous car era: "Warning: Self-Driving Cars Get
Hacked." Despite all the positive news about self-driving cars, there is
a darker side to this story that's very important. It's one that can be
particularly frightening if you happen to be riding in an autonomous car
when it gets hacked.
http://www.ecommercetimes.com/story/83751.html

Public-Private Team Leads Assault on Ransomware
Ransomware has become a scourge on the Internet -- but two information
security companies, along with a pair of law enforcement agencies, this
week launched an initiative to do something about it. No More Ransom is
the centerpiece of a collaborative effort involving Kapersky Lab, Intel
Security, the Dutch National Police and Europol. The new portal aims to
educate the public about ransomware.
http://www.ecommercetimes.com/story/83748.html

Oracle Hauls In NetSuite
Oracle has inked an agreement to acquire NetSuite -- the company its
former chief marketing officer, Zach Nelson, cofounded in 1998 -- for
$9.3 billion. NetSuite offers various software packages as cloud-based
services, including ERP, accounting, CRM and sales force automation.
What's surprising about the deal is "why it took so long and why Oracle
paid so much," said analyst Trip Chowdhry.
http://www.ecommercetimes.com/story/83749.html

Apple Earnings Sag on Lower iPhone Price Points
Apple on Tuesday reported lower earnings in the third-quarter as the
global saturation of smartphones continued to put pressure on its core
iPhone business. However, officials remained upbeat. The company
reported stronger-than-expected metrics and has been able to grow its
software and services business while expanding into key overseas
markets. Apple reported net income of $7.8 billion.
http://www.ecommercetimes.com/story/83746.html

Nintendo's Q1 Reflects Struggles Unrelated to Pokemon Go Success
Nintendo shares fell sharply in Tokyo on Wednesday, following its
release of a first-quarter earnings report that disappointed analyst
expectations. The company reported a drop of 31 percent in net sales and
an operating loss of about $48 million, which it attributed to growing
strength in the Japanese yen but which likely had more to do with dismal
sales of the Wii U, which it is phasing out.
http://www.ecommercetimes.com/story/83742.html

Xactly CEO Christopher Cabrera: Understanding CRM's Boundaries
It's important to recognize that "CRM is growing up," said Xactly CEO
Christopher Cabrera. "It's becoming more useful to the CRM user, who is
predominantly the sales rep or whoever is managing the customer
relationship. The sales performance management, or SPM, space is on a
collision course with CRM, because what CRM doesn't do is allow the reps
that are using it to make sense of it all ... ."
http://www.ecommercetimes.com/story/83740.html

KickassTorrents Owner Faces 20-Plus Years in Stir
Polish authorities last week arrested the alleged owner of pirate
website KickassTorrents, or KAT, 30-year-old Artem Vauln of Kharkiv,
Ukraine. Vaulin faces charges in the United States of conspiracy to
commit criminal copyright infringement, criminal copyright infringement
and conspiracy to commit money laundering. Conspiracy to commit money
laundering is punishable by up to 20 years in prison.
http://www.ecommercetimes.com/story/83734.html

Gamification's Serious Role in Sales Success
When gamification was just starting to catch on several years ago, I
recall sitting next to the CMO of my then-company at a Gartner
conference session. The presenter walked the audience through the
concept of using ideas borrowed from gaming as a motivational tool, and
about two-thirds of the way through, the CMO turned to me and whispered,
"This is the most ridiculous thing I've ever seen."
http://www.ecommercetimes.com/story/83737.html

Amazon Sidles Into Student Loans
Amazon has teamed up with Wells Fargo Educational Financial Services to
offer Amazon Prime Students a 0.5 percent discount on private student
loan interest rates, Wells Fargo announced last week. Wells Fargo is the
largest private student lender in the United States among commercial
banks. The Amazon discount can be added to the 0.25 percent discount
rate Wells Fargo already offers for enrolling in an automatic monthly
loan repayment plan.
http://www.ecommercetimes.com/story/83736.html

Yahoo Deal Could Put Verizon in Google and Facebook's League
Verizon has entered into a definitive agreement to acquire Yahoo's
operating business for approximately $4.83 billion in cash. The deal,
which comes on the heels of Verizon's $4.4 billion AOL purchase last
year, will allow it to expand its digital advertising business. The
purchase will provide Verizon with Yahoo's ad tech tools, search, email
and messenger assets.
http://www.ecommercetimes.com/story/83733.html

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