Friday 24 March 2017

Editor's Pick: Trust: Why Financial Services Should Embrace DoL's Fiduciary Rule

Trust: Why Financial Services Should Embrace DoL's Fiduciary Rule

Chris Bucholtz Mar 24, 2017 10:36 AM PT
	When the Department of Labor issued its fiduciary rule last year, it set financial advisers, insurers and agents into a mad scramble to meet an implementation deadline. The rule elevates all financial professionals who work with retirement plans or provide retirement planning advice to the level of a fiduciary, or someone bound legally and ethically to meet the standards of that status. [More...]

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Medium Is Looking for a Few Good Founding Members
Medium, the online publishing platform launched by Twitter cofounder Evan Williams, has announced a $5 monthly subscription membership upgrade that promises a better reading experience and better content. Medium on Thursday opened the subscription offer to a limited number of people who meet certain criteria, according to Williams, who is Medium's CEO. [More...]

LinkedIn Burnishes Sales Navigator for the Enterprise
LinkedIn on Tuesday launched an enterprise edition of its Sales Navigator product, with strengthened links to CRM. LinkedIn Enterprise Edition lets users send 50 emails on LinkedIn a month; adds Single Sign-On and other management features; and introduces TeamLink Extend, a tool that pools the networks of all the Sales Navigator users in an enterprise. [More...]

WikiLeaks Exposes CIA's Device Surveillance Tricks
WikiLeaks has released more Vault 7 documentation online, including details about several CIA projects to infect Apple's Mac computer firmware and operating system. The site unloaded its first batch of stolen Vault 7 data earlier this month. The CIA's Embedded Development Branch developed malware that could persist even if the targeted computer were reformatted and its OS were reinstalled. [More...]

OpenSuse Leap Reinforces Linux Faith
OpenSuse Leap 42.2 goes a long way toward maintaining Suse's reputation for reliability and stability. That said, new users might need a push to take the leap from their familiar distros to this latest OpenSuse release. Business users can remain confident that upgrading to the latest edition, released last fall, won't put them too close to the bleeding edge of innovation. [More...]

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E-Commerce Minute: Friday -- March 24, 2017

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Headline Scan
Medium Is Looking for a Few Good Founding Members
Advertisers Flee YouTube Over Offensive Ad Placements
LinkedIn Burnishes Sales Navigator for the Enterprise
Trending Storylines Hone LinkedIn's Relevance
Blockchain: CRM's Next Frontier
Walmart Launches 'Store No. 8' E-Commerce Venture
Intelligence-Driven Supply Chain Resilience
ProsperWorks Adds In-App Comms to its Google CRM Solution
Dun & Bradstreet Marketing Database Exposed
Verizon Wakes Up to Join Mobile TV Race

Today's Story Highlights

Medium Is Looking for a Few Good Founding Members

Medium, the online publishing platform launched by Twitter cofounder
Evan Williams, has announced a $5 monthly subscription membership
upgrade that promises a better reading experience and better content.
Medium on Thursday opened the subscription offer to a limited number of
people who meet certain criteria, according to Williams, who is Medium's
CEO.
http://www.ecommercetimes.com/story/84404.html

Advertisers Flee YouTube Over Offensive Ad Placements

Several top U.S. advertisers -- including AT&T, Verizon and Johnson &
Johnson -- this week pulled out of their agreements with YouTube due to
their ads appearing with videos advocating extremism, or with other
offensive content. Such placements represent violations of their
agreements with Google. "We are deeply concerned that our ads may have
appeared alongside YouTube content promoting terrorism and hate," AT&T
said.
http://www.ecommercetimes.com/story/84403.html

LinkedIn Burnishes Sales Navigator for the Enterprise

LinkedIn on Tuesday launched an enterprise edition of its Sales
Navigator product, with strengthened links to CRM. LinkedIn Enterprise
Edition lets users send 50 emails on LinkedIn a month; adds Single Sign-
On and other management features; and introduces TeamLink Extend, a tool
that pools the networks of all the Sales Navigator users in an
enterprise.
http://www.ecommercetimes.com/story/84400.html

Trending Storylines Hone LinkedIn's Relevance

LinkedIn has begun rolling out Trending Storylines, offering curated
feeds of the most interesting developing stories in a member's industry.
Storylines are personalized for members through a combination of
algorithms and the choices of LinkedIn's editorial team. The feeds may
include perspectives from relevant influencers and news sources, as well
as individuals in the member's network.
http://www.ecommercetimes.com/story/84397.html

Blockchain: CRM's Next Frontier

We've seen a parade of technologies coming into the front office since
2000, including browser-based cloud computing, social media, mobile
technology, workflow, journey mapping, and big data and analytics. It's
typical that at first there's only a tenuous relationship between the
technology and CRM's original mission, but over a short time innovators
adopt and commercialize the innovation.
http://www.ecommercetimes.com/story/84398.html

Walmart Launches 'Store No. 8' E-Commerce Venture

Marc Lore, CEO of Walmart eCommerce U.S., on Tuesday discussed the
company's plans to launch a new venture, called "Store No. 8," which
will operate as a Silicon Valley incubator for new online stores. The
move reflects Walmart's ambition to catch up to Amazon in the e-commerce
retail space. Lore unveiled the plans at the annual Shoptalk conference
in Las Vegas.
http://www.ecommercetimes.com/story/84394.html

Intelligence-Driven Supply Chain Resilience

Information security practices are undergoing a transformation. For at
least a decade, environments have been becoming less perimeter-centric:
Gone are the good old days when in-line controls protected the trusted,
safe interior from the "wild west" of the outside. As environments
become more complex and externalized, the traditional "perimeter" loses
meaning.
http://www.ecommercetimes.com/story/84389.html

ProsperWorks Adds In-App Comms to its Google CRM Solution

ProsperWorks, which provides CRM for Google's G Suite business tools,
last week announced the addition of in-app cloud communications
functionality. The new features are available through a custom
integration with RingCentral, which provides enterprise cloud
communications and collaboration solutions. The integration lets users
make, receive and log calls without leaving the CRM solution.
http://www.ecommercetimes.com/story/84383.html

Dun & Bradstreet Marketing Database Exposed

A Dun & Bradstreet database, 52 GB in size and containing more than 33.6
million records with very specific details, has been exposed.
Cybersecurity researcher Troy Hunt, who received it for study, on
Wednesday confirmed that the records already were organized and
developed as if intended for distribution to a potential client. The
database apparently was compiled for the use of marketers.
http://www.ecommercetimes.com/story/84387.html

Verizon Wakes Up to Join Mobile TV Race

Following decades of slow movement due to cable companies facing no
competition, the television world is changing rapidly. Lots of
challengers have arisen in the pay-TV space in recent years. One of the
latest comes from Verizon, which has improved its FiOS mobile app to
offer data-free streaming. AT&T's DirecTV started this ball rolling with
its wireless TV, or mobile TV, offering.
http://www.ecommercetimes.com/story/84385.html

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The Morning After: Would you pay for Twitter?

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It's Friday, March 24, 2017.

Hey, good morning! It's Friday!

We made it. This Friday, hackers are threatening Apple, read about experiences of online dating when as a woman in her 40s, the good and the bad in Mass Effect: Andromeda. Oh and how to dress like an adult -- with some liberating online help.

Roll ‘em back.

Senate votes 50 - 48 in favor of letting ISPs sell your private data

Yesterday, the US Senate voted for “congressional disapproval” of an FCC rule that prevented ISPs from selling their customer’s personal data without getting permission first. Sen. Jeff Flake (R-AZ) wrote the resolution, claiming the rule made for an unfair burden on ISPs compared to companies like Google and Facebook. He is apparently unbothered by the idea that consumers have less choice in what ISP they can use than whether or not they maintain an account on those sites. In response, the ACLU argues that “The House must now stop this resolution from moving forward and stand up for our privacy rights.”

The convertible dream will never die.

Apple explores using an iPhone or iPad to power a laptop

Apple has filed a patent filing this morning detailing how an iPhone, or an iPad, could be used to power an ultraportable laptop. One diagram features a slot near the trackpad area where you can drop in an iPhone, which provides all of the hardware necessary to run the Macbook-looking ultraportable. And, in a truly unique spin, the iPhone would also serve as the actual trackpad.

This is not a drill.

Hackers are threatening to erase iPhones if Apple doesn’t pay up

A hacker group claims it has accumulated credentials for hundreds of millions of iCloud and Apple ID accounts (likely due to leaks on other services where people used the same passwords). While Apple maintains that its systems have not been breached, ZDNet has been able to authenticate a few credentials provided by the group. Now the group claims it will use the Find My iPhone tool to wipe devices unless it’s paid a ransom. What does this mean for you? If you have an Apple account (or Google, or anywhere else, really) make sure you’re using strong, unique passwords, and enable two-factor authentication -- right now.

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Would you pay for Twitter?

Twitter floats the idea of a $20 subscription version of Tweetdeck

As a service, Twitter is indispensable for information addicts but still struggles to make money. One thing that could bring cash in is finding new ways to profit from heavy users like businesses and news outlets, and it looks like Twitter has an idea: subscription Tweetdeck. It’s currently surveying users to find out how they feel about the plan, which could run $20 per month for things like personalized news summaries and alerts, priority customer support, an ad-free experience and more.

The right clothes for you are out there, but you might not find them in stores.

What the internet taught me about dressing like an adult

Nicole Lee bought a pair of jeans from Uniqlo -- and that was the only time she’d purchased clothing from a brick-and-mortar store in all of 2016. For the past few years, her clothes shopping has happened online. Not just because it's convenient, but because the internet provides her with fashion alternatives that she said she would have never have discovered otherwise. She explains how and why.

Brands are upset over their ads appearing on content related to terrorism and hate.

AT&T, Verizon join companies pulling ads from Google and YouTube

YouTube video creators are fighting against the video service's filter screening out LGBTQ+ voices, while on the other end, advertisers are worried about a different type of content. In a movement that started with several UK brands (McDonald's, BBC, Channel 4, Lloyd's and others), companies and regulators have become concerned that ads are being placed by Google on websites and videos promoting extremist and hateful views. Although Google has promised new tools will give partners more control over where ads appear, it may not be moving fast enough. Now, AT&T and Verizon (parent company of AOL, which owns Engadget), are pulling online ad campaigns.

A series veteran and a newcomer walk into a bar...

What we love and hate about 'Mass Effect: Andromeda'

How does Andromeda compare to previous Mass Effect games? Does it stand on its own as a worthy addition to the sci-fi genre? Are the animations always this messed up? In the following conversation, Tim and Jessica discuss Andromeda's highs and lows from two vastly different perspectives -- and somehow, they end up with similar conclusions. There might be a few narrative spoilers, but nothing too awful.

But wait, there's more...

1. Adult Week: The panic and pleasure of online dating as a woman in her 40s

2. Corsair makes a gaming desktop so you don't have to DIY

3. Alaska Airlines: Goodbye 'Virgin America,' hello comfier flights

4. Leaked poster suggests 'Destiny 2' will arrive this September

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