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Feds: Cloud Cybersecurity Benefits Now Outweigh Risks

Industry responses were due by early August. Since then there have been "no status updates, decisions or timelines" regarding the RFI, Anthony Kram, an acquisition official at the department, told the E-Commerce Times While federal agency sentiment regarding cloud security iss...

Bitcoin Surges Past $16K: Will the Bubble Burst?

"If 2 percent of that ends up in a cryptocurrency, that is just $4 trillion of the total world wealth," Moas told the E-Commerce Times Given that there is a finite limit to the amount of Bitcoin there can be in the world, the currency is structured to have a true cap. Unlike a...

Net Neutrality Battle Lines Drawn as FCC Vote Looms

"There are no right or wrong angles, just different angles," he told the E-Commerce Times. "One side is beneficial to the consumer and certain companies that use the Internet for their business model. They want to use the Net at no cost, and I don't blame them." On the other h...

3 Ways to Buff Up Your Website and Do More Business

"This would include a clear brand identity, the use of clear visual hierarchy, easy product search and browsing via clearly laid-out navigation and omnipresent search," he told the E-Commerce Times An e-commerce business relies on its site not just to sell products, but to com...

B2B Tech Marketers Have Work Cut Out for Them

"Typically this issue only affects a handful of technology companies that provide services to both the SMB and enterprise market," Heitz told the E-Commerce Times Sales of less than $20,000 "do need a very different approach," he said....

AWS Gives IoT a Boost With New OS, Services

Automating the process through the IoT platform allows his firm to operate almost like a just-in-time supply operation, he told the E-Commerce Times. Doctors aren't required to buy huge volumes of medical supplies, and iRemedy can fulfill reorders rapidly with a very fast, automated mechanism that is based on Magenta. ...

Snapchat Draws Bright Line Between ‘Social’ and ‘Media’

"I don't particularly get what a news feed is doing intermingled with photos among family and friends," he told the E-Commerce Times. Snapchat caters to a much different demographic than Facebook and Twitter, so its changes may not have a substantial direct impact on the fake...

Cyber Monday Sales Shoot the Moon

The increased use of mobile can be credited to better retail experiences, including changes to make the use of mobile much faster and easier, he told the E-Commerce Times. Average order volume on Cyber Monday was up slightly, at $133. AOV for iOS was $123, compared with AOV ...

Black Friday Shoppers Embrace Mobile, Set New Online Records

"As more and more consumers shop online, especially on Thanksgiving Day, it's imperative that traditional retailers focus on delivering a strong, optimized e-commerce presence across all channels," Ross told the E-Commerce Times "Traffic seemed pretty steady, with TVs once aga...

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Trump Puts Federal Cloud Investments on Front Burner

"I believe the Administration's actions will have a positive impact on outsourcing, including cloud, but a quantum leap is not in the cards," Deltek's Rossino told the E-Commerce Times. Agencies will move at the pace they are comfortable with, he noted.

E-Commerce Provides Fertile Ground for B2B Growth

"Constellation forecasts that by 2020, online B2B sales will account for about 65 percent of the total, averaged out between North America and [Europe, the Middle East and Africa]," he told the E-Commerce Times Learning from B2C Companies...

Google Gives Job Searchers Salary, Location Details

However, "by our estimates, this information is missing from over 85 percent of job postings in the U.S. today," she told the E-Commerce Times. This information should help users save time during the search process and provide a more holistic view of a potential role, noted ...

Retailers, Etailers Brace for Invasion of the Black Friday Shoppers

"This is the always-on and connected consumer who is browsing items, making purchases and responding to holiday deals all from their phones -- at any time of day when the right deal strikes," she told the E-Commerce Times Laptop shopping finished second, at 54 percent, and de...

Amazon Denies Rumored Plans for Ad-Supported Prime Video Service

Amazon has "no plans to create a free, ad-supported version of Prime Video," spokesperson Cat Kelty told the E-Commerce Times Apple earlier this year launched a US$1 billion effort to develop original content for its service. It hired two former Sony executives, Jamie Erlicht ...

IBM Adds 2 New Processors to Quantum Computing Ecosystem

The company declined to specify when the 50-qubit processor will be available as a service, IBM Research spokesperson Christine Vu told the E-Commerce Times During 2018, IBM plans to improve the quality of qubits in the 20-qubit processor, as well as circuit connectivity and o...

Microsoft Partners Up to Boost Windows Defender Threat Detection

"It's likely that any business will have a mix of OSes and devices," he told the E-Commerce Times. "A single tool that can look at all those OSes is a time saver." Beefing Up the ATP...

5 Ways Etailers Can Make Online Shoppers Feel Safe

"We did a survey with ORC International that found 40 percent of consumers believe businesses aren't doing all they can to protect their personal information," she told the E-Commerce Times. "Further, three in four holiday shoppers say they're either very concerned or somewhat concerned about their financial or personal information being compromised due to a data breach this season."

Amazon Sneaks In Third-Party Seller Discounts

"'Discount Provided by Amazon' is another way for Amazon to provide the low prices customers expect," the company said in a statement provided to the E-Commerce Times by spokesperson Cecilia Fan. "When Amazon provides a discount, customers get the products they want at a price they'll love, and small businesses receive increased sales at their listed asking price." ...

The Long Black Friday Shopping Day Has Dawned

Black Friday "was traditionally the time when retailers went from being in the red to into the black," Constellation's Wang told the E-Commerce Times. Many stores have been jumping the gun, announcing Black Friday sales earlier and earlier, so "the retail model of Black Friday has begun to lose its meaning."

IBM Launches Private Cloud to Ease Public Cloud Transition

"Companies like American Airlines depend on IBM to provide an easy solution to deliver code to production, something Cloud Foundry Application Runtime excels at," he told the E-Commerce Times. "This offering is a huge step in the right direction -- it shows IBM doubling down on open source not just with Cloud Foundry, but also adding Kubernetes into the mix."

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