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Smart home and consumer Internet of Things solutions promise significant opportunities for the insurance industry in terms of reducing costs, alleviating risks, deepening customer engagement, and creating new services and revenue streams. There are many barriers ahead to overcome, but given the tremendous upside, insurance companies have begun attacking these challenges with a multi-tiered strategy...

Shopping: It's not what it once was. Forget the long drive to the mall and countless hours of browsing. Customers now simply log in from the comfort of their own home to have the world at their fingertips. ...

"It's a maturing market, but some aspects of it are growing faster than the market as a whole," he told the E-Commerce Times. "The home mobile side is growing more quickly -- and in the developing world, it's growing much, much more quickly." Hands On or Hands Off?...

"Online businesses face the same problems as other businesses -- but are especially vulnerable to hacks, site crashes or outages and reputation dings from quality or service issues," Fusion PR President Bob Geller told the E-Commerce Times Those problems are all a normal part ...

Shopping: It's not what it once was. Forget the long drive to the mall and countless hours of browsing. Customers now simply log in from the comfort of their own home to have the world at their fingertips. ...

"There's no comparison tool, table of factors, or even standards for what is considered creepy versus whether it is useful/cool enough to be worth the creep factor," he told the E-Commerce Times. "Alexa is voted as one of the creepiest products, yet there are still over 40 million units sold." ...

"The advent of the Web began to change that, and subsequent developments in the depth and detail of information available online made talking to salespeople early in the decision-making process unnecessary," she told the E-Commerce Times. "Next, consumerization changed buyer expectations."

"The trend now is to capture as much money as possible before Amazon gobbles it all up," he told the E-Commerce Times Black Friday starts as early as October for some retailers, noted Natalie Malaszenko, senior vice president for digital business at Office Depot, which has its...

"Knucklebone dice and painted stones were used by ancient peoples to hone skills, develop critical thinking, or just pass the time," he told the E-Commerce Times. "Games are a part of us. Whether it's competition with others or competition with ourselves, games are miniature versions of our lives: We strive to achieve -- to overcome challenges."

"It has been unafraid to have blackouts or to eliminate channels from their packages if they cannot reach terms that make sense for Dish," he told the E-Commerce Times "Carriage agreements are often contentious, but we have seen an escalation in blackout brinksmanship over the...

For example, Greyhound and Microsoft "are being dragged into the public eye because of their role in cooperating with ICE and border agents," he told the E-Commerce Times "It's now a near-daily occurrence for companies to find themselves caught up in an overnight brand crisis,...

"I've noticed that more publications are coming back and saying, 'We're not doing earned media any more. You can pay us $350, and we'll do a mention -- more and we'll do an article,'" she told the E-Commerce Times That happens at only a small percentage of the publications JoT...

"It seems possible or likely that other vendors would be interested in purchasing Red Hat," he told the E-Commerce Times. "By making a deal happen, IBM is bringing in-house a raft of technologies, solutions and assets that are both familiar and highly complementary to its own solutions...

"According to a recent McKinsey survey, companies that can consistently deploy models in production have a 7.4 percent profit margin advantage over their peers," he told the E-Commerce Times Such model-driven companies develop more breakthrough products while simultaneously an...

Just when the European Union's General Data Protection Regulation, or GDPR, was about to go into effect, the United States Congress created the CLOUD Act (Clarifying Overseas Use of Data). ...

"Part of this is timing, as people have embraced streaming media in audio and video," he told the E-Commerce Times "This plays into the ability to choose when and where and even how to listen to the content," added Sterling....

There are times when looking at something narrowly can be more effective than taking a wider and more comprehensive view. If you don't believe me, consider the experience of looking at organisms in a microscope or watching a bird through binoculars. Distractions are minimized, allowing optimal evaluation and analysis of what's under investigation. ...

"The D.C. Circuit, plus the third, eighth, and ninth, have all issued decisions that have allowed consumer data breach class actions to progress past initial motions to dismiss asserting pleading deficiencies," he told the E-Commerce Times The sixth and eleventh circuits were ...

When it comes to business, you're only as good as your reputation. Indeed, your reputation is your brand. It is the substance your logo represents; it is the glue in customer brand loyalty. In a word, reputation is everything. Yet it's not entirely under your control. ...

"If you are entirely store-dependent, then too many transactions in your product categories likely will bypass you for the online channel," she told the E-Commerce Times Customers walk into stores holding smartphones, and they easily can check competitors' prices, view similar...