Friday 28 July 2017

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E-Commerce Minute: Friday -- July 28, 2017

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Russian Head of $4B Bitcoin Exchange Charged in Massive Money Laundering Scheme
How Amazon Is Transforming Retail
Changing B2B Marketplace Calls for New Sales Skills
Facebook to Launch Paywall in Response to Publisher Pushback
Sage Buys Intacct
FTC to Take a Gander at Amazon's Discount Pricing Practices
Zoho Launches All-in-One Business Suite for SMBs
New Cybersecurity Policy Will Impact Federal IT Market
Elon Musk: Luddite?
V2V's Place in an Increasingly Connected World
SEO, SEM Rule Retailers' Marketing Budgets

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Russian Head of $4B Bitcoin Exchange Charged in Massive Money Laundering Scheme

A grand jury in the Northern District of California indicted a Russian
man for running a massive money laundering operation through the BTC-e
bitcoin exchange, a group of federal officials announced Wednesday. The
exchange allegedly received up to $4 billion in proceeds from various
criminal activities, including the 2014 hack of the Mt. Gox bitcoin
exchange.
http://www.ecommercetimes.com/story/84708.html

How Amazon Is Transforming Retail

Amazon's plan to buy Whole Foods Market has raised many new questions.
If the company is successful in making the acquisition, and then
successful in operating the business, it could transform the entire
grocery industry. If we pull the camera back, we can see how success on
the grocery side could foreshadow Amazon's success in many other parts
of the retail environment.
http://www.ecommercetimes.com/story/84703.html

Changing B2B Marketplace Calls for New Sales Skills

There are three key moments when salespeople can maximize the value in a
customer relationship instead of allowing it to leak out, according to
Corporate Visions, which announced a new sales skills program on
Thursday. Those three turning points occur during deal negotiations,
when securing customer renewals, and introducing strategic price
increases, the company said.
http://www.ecommercetimes.com/story/84707.html

Facebook to Launch Paywall in Response to Publisher Pushback

Facebook last week confirmed its plan to launch a paywall for content
providers, a move that could ease longstanding tensions with traditional
publishers who objected to giving away their print stories for free.
Campbell Brown, former CNN and NBC News journalist and current head of
Facebook's news partnerships unit, announced the plan at a New York
digital media forum.
http://www.ecommercetimes.com/story/84699.html

Sage Buys Intacct

Sage's Tuesday announcement of its agreement to buy Intacct prompts a
multilayered look at the evolution of the cloud ERP space. Both
companies are partners with Salesforce and have products based on the
Salesforce platform. Each is a member of the AppExchange, and both are
situated in the broad cloud ERP space, which has been receiving a lot of
attention lately as the market seems to be moving en masse, albeit
glacially, to the cloud.
http://www.ecommercetimes.com/story/84700.html

FTC to Take a Gander at Amazon's Discount Pricing Practices

The FTC reportedly is looking into Amazon's discount pricing practices
in response to a complaint filed by Consumer Watchdog over the company's
pending $14 billion purchase of the Whole Foods grocery chain. "Asking
informal questions about issues potentially related to a corporate
acquisition is a natural part of the FTC review process," observed
Charles King, principal analyst at Pund-IT.
http://www.ecommercetimes.com/story/84696.html

Zoho Launches All-in-One Business Suite for SMBs

Zoho has launched Zoho One, an all-in-one business suite comprised of
more than 35 integrated Web applications and an equal number of mobile
apps. The suite offers single sign-on with centralized administration
and provisioning. Each user has one secure account and access to the
entire suite. An admin panel enables and controls access, which
simplifies provisioning, access and audit.
http://www.ecommercetimes.com/story/84698.html

New Cybersecurity Policy Will Impact Federal IT Market

Federal agencies already under the gun to modernize their information
technology capabilities have a new set of standards to meet as a result
of an executive order President Donald Trump issued this spring. The
directive not only will affect agency managers in their IT operations
and acquisition activities, but also will have a significant effect on
IT vendors.
http://www.ecommercetimes.com/story/84693.html

Elon Musk: Luddite?

It's hard to believe that the founder of Tesla Motors and SpaceX could
have such reactionary views about AI. Elon Musk last weekend had some
very un-Musk-like things to say about AI when he addressed the U.S.
National Governors Association meeting in Providence, Rhode Island. "AI
is a fundamental existential risk for human civilization, and I don't
think people fully appreciate that," Musk said.
http://www.ecommercetimes.com/story/84694.html

V2V's Place in an Increasingly Connected World

You're probably tired of reading that the Internet of Things is the
hottest thing going, and that IoT is a boon to technology and,
simultaneously, a potential disaster for security and privacy. However,
over the past few years, another IoT-related technology has been
growing: vehicle to vehicle. V2V is a way for automobiles to communicate
directly with other vehicles on the road.
http://www.ecommercetimes.com/story/84690.html

SEO, SEM Rule Retailers' Marketing Budgets

Retailers have been focusing on technologies to measure and assess
customer response, and have been using the data they produce to drive e-
commerce decisions, suggests a study of 136 enterprise retailers.
Enterprise retailers with at least $500 million in annual revenues
participated in the study, which was a joint effort of Adam Software, an
Aprimo company; WBR Digital; and ChannelAdvisor.
http://www.ecommercetimes.com/story/84691.html

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The Morning After: And then there was one iPod

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It's Friday, July 28, 2017.

Hey, good morning! You look fabulous.

Your Friday has landed. Yesterday, the iPod series was squeezed to one model, we welcome Doomfist in Overwatch and we might have just met the king of Chromebooks.

And then there was one.

Apple drops the iPod nano and shuffle

Apple has quietly discontinued the iPod nano and iPod shuffle, yanking their product pages from its website. Both MP3 players are hanging around retail stores, but not for long -- if you're feeling nostalgic, you'd better plan a shopping trip in the near future. The iPod touch, meanwhile, is sticking around and comes with more capacity, as $199/32GB and $299/128GB versions have replaced older 16GB and 64GB models.,

Now you have plans for tonight.

Tesla will livestream the first Model 3 deliveries

Tune in at 11:45 PM ET, as Elon Musk and Tesla hand over the first Model 3 EVs at a special event. Musk himself will receive the first one, while the other 29 are promised to Tesla employees or people who own some of its other EVs. After that, Musk has promised to ship 100 Model 3s next month and around 1,500 in September, eventually ramping up to 10,000 per week.

Adding more users is hard.

Over a million Americans quit Twitter in just three months

Twitter thought that it had turned a corner at the start of the year, possibly thanks to our 45th president. Back in April, the company was crowing about a 14 percent bump in the number of monthly active users on the service -- which had increased to 328 million.

Three months later and that number has remained exactly the same at 328 million, with any international growth offset by domestic losses. The company claims that it's growing at 12 percent for the quarter compared to 2016, but Twitter's audience is essentially stagnating.

Number 25.

This is how Doomfist invades 'Overwatch'

The latest Overwatch character has arrived, and you can watch Jessica Conditt take him for a spin on our archived Facebook Live stream. Doomfist’s punch-happy antics are a welcome addition to the game’s pantheon of combatants, with a Rocket Punch charged attack that’s as tricky to pull off as it is powerful.

Cyber criminals will have to take their business elsewhere

Russian exchange chief charged over $4-billion-bitcoin laundering scheme

The US DoJ has charged Alexander Vinnik with 17 counts of money laundering. It claims that through his company, BTC-e, he’s suspected of laundering proceeds from the Mt. Gox hack, the Cryptowall ransomware attacks and even digital currency stolen from the Silk Road by federal agents.The BTC-e exchange has been fined $110 million in civil penalties, while Vinnik personally faces a $12-million fine and up to 55 years in jail.

A strong performer for less than $500.

ASUS Chromebook Flip C302 review

It’s ASUS's first entry into the premium Chromebook space, and according to Nathan Ingraham “It's not perfect, but it's very close.” The $470 laptop could do better on battery life and Android app support is still iffy, but at 12.5-inches, it’s bigger and better than its predecessor. Inside, and Intel Core m3-6Y30 CPU keeps things moving smoothly, and it charges via USB-C.

It might not reach orbit, though.

SpaceX schedules Falcon Heavy's maiden launch for November

SpaceX chief Elon Musk has revealed that the company is sending its Heavy lift rocket to space for the first time in November. The company was originally gunning for a summer launch, but in June, the CEO said that Falcon Heavy's cores will take two to three months to reach Cape Canaveral. SpaceX will need a bit of time after they arrive to prepare the rocket -- which will take off from NASA's historic launch pad 39A at the Kennedy Space Center.

It's like Amazon Locker, but exclusively for use by tenants.

Amazon's 'The Hub' is a delivery locker for residential buildings

Amazon already has lockers in various public locations that you can use to receive packages, but it's now offering a more private option for multi-tenant dwellings. The e-commerce titan has launched a new service that offers to install ‘Hubs’ in condos, apartment buildings and complexes for use exclusively by people who live there. Once it's installed, Amazon doesn't care who uses it for delivery -- you can use it to receive parcels from other websites, retailers and even from your relatives.

But wait, there's more...

1. Funny Or Die's VR comedy puts you inside a robot racing toward obsolescence

2. Nuviz has the first 'decent' heads-up display for motorcycle helmets

3. Sony's A7S II camera shot 4K video from outside the ISS

4. US scientists have genetically modified human embryos

5. Bipartisan Senate legislation would modernize digital privacy

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Thursday 27 July 2017

The Morning After: The wearables battlefield is strewn with casualties

Engadget Email Newsletter

It's Thursday, July 27, 2017.

Hey, good morning! Looking good, in that line-drawn, '80s way.

Good morning, readers! There’s now a phone with a miniature screen for your selfie shots, and A-Ha is back in fashion. Oh, and we’ve got a Boring elevator.

Your Uber driver is overjoyed.

Waze finally works on Android Auto

Fans of Waze’s crowdsourced mapping data can finally get it on their car’s built-in touchscreen, now that the app is available through Android Auto. Until now, Google Maps was the only navigation option available, and while it pulls in some data from Waze, only one of the apps will give you a heads up about local speed traps. A push to abolish distractions also removes intrusive ads but leaves in highlighted locations for ‘partners.’ It’s still missing a few features from the phone app, but having it as an option is one thing Android offers that isn’t available with Apple CarPlay.

In return, it will use data you contribute to improve machine learning across its products.

Kaspersky launches its free antivirus software worldwide

Kaspersky has finally launched its free antivirus software after a year and a half of testing. The free antivirus doesn't have VPN, parental controls and online payment protection like its paid counterpart, but it has all the essential features you need to protect your PC. It can scan files and emails, protect your PC while you use the web and quarantine malware. It’s better than no protection, for sure.

No new cables needed.

USB 3.2 doubles your connection speeds with the same port

The next generation of USB will effectively double the current USB 3.1 spec by adding an extra lane. As such, it will allow for two lanes of 5 Gbps for USB 3.0, yielding 10 Gbps, or two lanes of 10 Gbps for 20 Gbps with USB 3.1. As a bonus, the "superspeed" USB-C cable you're currently using already has the capability for it built in.

The other part of that high-speed tunnel.

Watch Elon Musk's Boring elevator hide a car underground

Total Batcave moment.

The Lollapalooza of mobile games.

Pokémon Go Fest's big flop shows Niantic needs to think bigger

The festival in Chicago was intended as a love letter to those who stuck through it all and kept playing, while also giving the company a chance to unveil long-awaited legendary pokémon. Instead, it was a mess that showed the developer is still struggling with unexpected success.

Say cheese. To yourself.

Meizu Pro 7 has a tiny selfie screen on its backside

It's been a while since China’s Meizu smartphone last caught our attention, but in a twist of fate, the freshly announced Pro 7 flagship series manages to pack some surprises. Most notably, these devices are the work of legendary design studio, Frog, and they feature a tiny 1.9-inch 240 x 536 (307 ppi) AMOLED touchscreen on the back. For selfie help.