Wednesday 28 June 2017

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This Week's Top News Headlines From the E-Commerce Times

Petya Ransomware Sinks Global Businesses Into Chaos
(Posted 28-Jun-17)
http://www.ecommercetimes.com/story/84643.html

Can Amazon Reinvent the Shopping Experience?
(Posted 27-Jun-17)
http://www.ecommercetimes.com/story/84591.html

What's Next in the Volatile Pay-TV Services Market?
(Posted 26-Jun-17)
http://www.ecommercetimes.com/story/84614.html

Experts Identify 6 Emerging Influencer Marketing Trends
(Posted 23-Jun-17)
http://www.ecommercetimes.com/story/84637.html

Netflix Climbs the Growth Wave as Cable TV Slides
(Posted 22-Jun-17)
http://www.ecommercetimes.com/story/84631.html

This Week's Top News Headlines From TechNewsWorld

Cyberattackers Kick Down a Few Parliament Email Doors
(Posted 27-Jun-17)
http://www.technewsworld.com/story/84640.html

The United States of Amazon
(Posted 26-Jun-17)
http://www.technewsworld.com/story/84634.html

Rivals Rev Up as Uber Hits the Skids
(Posted 23-Jun-17)
http://www.technewsworld.com/story/84630.html

DHS to Congress: The Russians Are Coming Back
(Posted 22-Jun-17)
http://www.technewsworld.com/story/84632.html

This Week's Top News Headlines From CRM Buyer

SugarCRM Launches Hint, 1st in Relationship Intelligence Line
(Posted 28-Jun-17)
http://www.crmbuyer.com/story/84642.html

Where FinancialForce Fits
(Posted 26-Jun-17)
http://www.crmbuyer.com/story/84639.html

Digital River, Adobe Strengthen Cloud Commerce Alliance
(Posted 22-Jun-17)
http://www.crmbuyer.com/story/84633.html

This Week's Top News Headlines From LinuxInsider

Xinix Offers Linux Lovers a Path to Zen
(Posted 27-Jun-17)
http://www.linuxinsider.com/story/84641.html

Sudo or Sudo Not, There Is No (4th) Try
(Posted 24-Jun-17)
http://www.linuxinsider.com/story/84638.html

OTA Report: Consumer Services Sites More Trustworthy Than .Gov Sites
(Posted 22-Jun-17)
http://www.linuxinsider.com/story/84629.html

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It's Wednesday, June 28, 2017.

Hey, good morning!

Welcome to your humpday. Amazon is offering cheaper smartphones (with a caveat) and we explain how electric is going to kill the gas station. Oh, and Google got slammed with a $2.7 billion fine in Europe.

Makeover.

Google News has a new look

The first Google News redesign in years is subtle but effective. You’ll notice it has a modernized card-style layout instead of the old Google search-results setup. Related topics are grouped together, and tags help readers dive deep into stories. Since it’s 2017, there’s also a dedicated block for fact checking and filters to help you customize your personal bubble.

Vehicles of the future will charge almost everywhere.

The rise of electric cars will kill the gas station

Gas stations are a lifeline. They fuel our cars and us, too -- whether it's with lukewarm coffee on the morning commute or the salty-sweet buffet on a road trip. While it's going to be a long time before the handy service station disappears (everybody needs to pee, right?), its days are numbered -- because electric cars are going to change everything.

Lock-screen ads are standard.

Amazon’s Prime Exclusive lineup expands with new phones

If you’re looking for a cheap unlocked phone, Amazon has a few ideas. Nokia 6 and Moto E4 are new options joined by Alcatel’s IDOL 5S, A50 and A30 Plus in the Prime Exclusive lineup that cuts between $30 and $80 off of their already low prices for buyers willing to live with a few additional ads.

Token works with an impressive list of partners.

A biometric ring could replace your passwords, cards and keys

Smart rings aren't a novel idea -- there are plenty of fitness tracking, notification-sending, payment or even protective finger ornaments around. But none have the ability to identify you and authorize your transactions wherever you go. That is, until Token hits the market. It's a biometric ring that can be used to open house doors, start cars, make credit card transactions and sign in to your computer. Is it one size fits all, however?

Guilty of manipulating search results to promote its own products.

EU fines Google a record $2.7 billion for abusing product searches

The European Commission's long-running investigation into Google has finally come to an end, and it's not good news for the search giant. The company has been fined €2.42 billion ($2.72 billion) for unfairly directing users to its own products over those of its rivals -- and it's the biggest financial penalty the Commission has ever handed out.

A number of targets, including banks and power companies, have been hit.

Large-scale cyberattack is spreading through Russia and Ukraine (updated)

Cyberattacks have affected banking operations in Ukraine and will likely lead to some flight delays out of the country’s Boryspil airport, but the attacks don't seem to have impacted services on a grander scale. In Russia, Rosneft said on Twitter it had switched to a reserve control system, so oil production hadn’t stopped. There are also reports that a ransomware called "Petya" is ravaging a number of countries throughout Europe, but it's still unclear if the "unknown virus" reported to be affecting the Ukrainian and Russian companies is the same one. The origins of yesterday's attacks, which have hit both Ukrainian and Russian infrastructure, aren't yet known.

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You can buy the OnePlus 5 right now for $479

The latest OnePlus phone continues its reputation for powerful Android devices with mid-range pricing, and now you can actually order it. The OnePlus 5 is on sale and shipping now (at least the base model is, upgrading to 8GB of RAM and 128GB storage will mean a short wait), so you can grab hold of its dual rear cameras and Snapdragon 835 CPU.

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3. Facebook has more than 2 billion monthly users

4. Yahoo gives Mail a makeover and introduces Yahoo Mail Pro

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Tuesday 27 June 2017

Editor's Pick: Can Amazon Reinvent the Shopping Experience?

Can Amazon Reinvent the Shopping Experience?

Jim McGregor Jun 27, 2017 12:12 PM PT
	There is little doubt that the Internet has altered the way U.S. consumers think about shopping. E-commerce sales grew 15.6 percent in 2016 and now account for 11.7 percent of all retail sales, according to recent reports. Amazon accounts for a whopping 43 percent of those e- commerce sales. Amazon, in particular, has changed the way consumers think about e-commerce sales, or etail. [More...]

More Picks:

Cyberattackers Kick Down a Few Parliament Email Doors
The United Kingdom's Parliament on Monday reported a cyberattack on its email system over the weekend, when hackers attempted to access user accounts without authorization. Due to the "robust measures" in place to protect the legislative body's accounts and networks, fewer than 1 percent of the 9,000 accounts on the network were compromised, officials said. Accounts that were compromised reportedly had weak passwords. [More...]

Where FinancialForce Fits
FinancialForce held its first big time user conference in Las Vegas last week, headlined by new CEO Tod Nielsen. The company seems to be telling us that it is adjusting course in an effort to create a new category aligned with enterprise resource planning, but very much for this century. The key concept is services, which must be explained. [More...]

The United States of Amazon
Amazon's significant expansion into yet another market -- this time, grocery stores -- dominated many of my conversations last week. Clearly, Amazon warned us. I've been here before -- back in the 1990s, when Amazon was just books, I was running the company's e-commerce unit. I got into an argument with one of the analysts focused on Amazon, who believed the company wouldn't go beyond books. [More...]

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E-Commerce Minute

E-Commerce Minute: Tuesday -- June 27, 2017

The E-Commerce Times -- E-Business Means Business
http://www.ecommercetimes.com
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Headline Scan
Can Amazon Reinvent the Shopping Experience?
Where FinancialForce Fits
What's Next in the Volatile Pay-TV Services Market?
Experts Identify 6 Emerging Influencer Marketing Trends

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Today's Story Highlights

Can Amazon Reinvent the Shopping Experience?

There is little doubt that the Internet has altered the way U.S.
consumers think about shopping. E-commerce sales grew 15.6 percent in
2016 and now account for 11.7 percent of all retail sales, according to
recent reports. Amazon accounts for a whopping 43 percent of those e-
commerce sales. Amazon, in particular, has changed the way consumers
think about e-commerce sales, or etail.
http://www.ecommercetimes.com/story/84591.html

Where FinancialForce Fits

FinancialForce held its first big time user conference in Las Vegas last
week, headlined by new CEO Tod Nielsen. The company seems to be telling
us that it is adjusting course in an effort to create a new category
aligned with enterprise resource planning, but very much for this
century. The key concept is services, which must be explained.
http://www.ecommercetimes.com/story/84639.html

What's Next in the Volatile Pay-TV Services Market?

There recently has been an erosion in penetration of pay-TV
subscriptions in the United States. They have fallen from a high of 86
percent in 2014 to 83 percent in early 2017, based on Parks Associates
recent consumer research. Despite signs in late 2015 and early 2016 that
the U.S. cable TV industry finally had reversed years of subscriber
losses, the numbers declined again.
http://www.ecommercetimes.com/story/84614.html

Experts Identify 6 Emerging Influencer Marketing Trends

Influencer marketing has become an area of strategic importance for
marketing departments, according to Traackr. B2B technology companies
are aware of the trend, according to the paper's coauthor, business
consultant Mark Schaefer, but they lag in implementing influencer
marketing programs. Interviews with 10 marketing experts suggest that
influencer marketing requires a fundamental shift.
http://www.ecommercetimes.com/story/84637.html

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