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"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 ...

"This attack represents the continued loss of intellectual property of our nation. It wouldn't surprise me if many of these universities were specifically targeted because they are doing research and development on behalf of the U.S. government," he told the E-Commerce Times.

"By nature, women tend to be more social," he told the E-Commerce Times Survey Participant Stats...

Wylie will appear on March 27, Lucy Dargahi, a spokesperson for the committee, confirmed to the E-Commerce Times. Cambridge Analytica on Thursday tweeted that it would cooperate with the various inquiries.

"The next step in this process will be Google signing contracts with the various newspapers to provide advertising services, for which the paper receives revenue based on the click-through to their content," he told the E-Commerce Times That could help. This year, Google will ...

"Individuals' security and privacy on the Internet are fundamental and must not be treated as optional," Mozilla said in a statement provided to the E-Commerce Times by spokesperson Jenifer Boscacci. "With our petition to Facebook, we're sending a clear message to the company: take users' privacy more seriously."

"A good process can allow for optimal conversion, data collection and speed," he told the E-Commerce Times It's a good idea, therefore, to pay particular attention to your checkout process, regularly evaluating it and updating it as needed. If you're not sure what to do, here ...

"This has particular resonance for politicians and regulators, both in the U.S. and Britain, who think Facebook has been lackadaisical in policing misuse of the platform," Rick Edmonds, media business analyst at Poynter, told the E-Commerce Times The Federal Trade Commission h...

Weiner has engaged with officials in Massachusetts, North Carolina, New York, New Jersey and Tennessee on the subject, Cretan told the E-Commerce Times. Washington Law Enacted...

Walmart has been working with third parties such as Uber and Deliv, which it will add to its lineup soon, she told the E-Commerce Times Throughout the coming year, Walmart will add another 1,000 stores offering its Online Grocery Pickup service to the 1,200 already offering it...

"This is a very speculative space, and people are being taken advantage of," he told the E-Commerce Times. "People are jumping into this like it's gambling, so Google is trying to protect consumers." Speculative investments like cryptocurrencies really aren't suitable for reta...

Instead, the case is about which country's authorities ought to be able to compel that account information," he told the E-Commerce Times With that legal stage set, the Supreme Court justices entered the fray. While it is risky to predict a Supreme Court ruling based on oral ...

Whether regulators ever would allow Amazon to offer banking services to customers is questionable, she told the E-Commerce Times, especially given Walmart's unsuccessful plan to enter the banking business a decade ago. That effort was crushed by consumer advocates and rival banks that feared Walmart would crush the competition, particularly small community banks that served working-class and low-income communities.

However, blockchain may not be "a privacy-effective or cost-effective solution" for all of them, she told the E-Commerce Times Product research is one area where blockchain does appear to show promise. Some in the apparel industry, for instance, have envisioned using blockchai...

"It's a lot easier to just say 'Hey, Alexa, send me some new detergent,' and it'll know what you previously ordered," he told the E-Commerce Times Starbucks has a similar ability, using Alexa, that lets customers place their usual order, Fisher noted. Voice ordering "really ti...

The deal means Ring will be able to further its "mission to reduce crime in neighborhoods by providing effective yet affordable home security tools to our neighbors that make a positive impact on our homes, our communities and the world," Ring said in a statement provided to the E-Commerce Times by company rep Meredith Chiricosta...

"If you're not educating or entertaining, it's hard to build a meaningful audience," he told the E-Commerce Times If you are willing to put in the time and effort needed to create a truly entertaining or informative podcast, it can be a boon to your business.

"Under the CLOUD Act, the president could unilaterally pick the countries they want to give this power to," the EFF's Schwartz told the E-Commerce Times. One concern is that the bill would allow the president to enter an agreement with a country that had a history of repressi...

Small and mid-sized businesses are particularly vulnerable because they "lack the financial and staff resources of their larger counterparts, he told the E-Commerce Times. Also, they "often use basic, out-of-the-box tools that aren't tuned to their specific business and trends, leaving the door open to fraudsters to initiate heavy and quick attacks that go largely unnoticed until it's too late."

"We continue to work with rural groups to improve Internet access, but most of the hope lies with local groups and states -- not the federal government," Mitchell told the E-Commerce Times While the Department of Agriculture has been doing some good work to help rural investme...