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E-Commerce Minute: Thursday -- March 22, 2012
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Headline Scan
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1. Hearing Pits Small Fries Against Comm Giants on Spectrum Buy
2. OMGPOP Deal Puts More Zing Into Zynga
3. The Shared Spectrum Solution
4. Customers, Big Data, and the Internet of Things
5. Yahoo May Face Bitter Battle Over Board Makeup
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Story Highlights
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1. Hearing Pits Small Fries Against Comm Giants on Spectrum Buy
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Executives from Verizon and Comcast went before a U.S. Senate judiciary
subcommittee Wednesday to defend Verizon's plan to purchase $3.6
billion worth of spectrum from cable industry joint venture SpectrumCo.
They were met with opposition from other wireless providers and consumer
advocacy groups.
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http://www.ecommercetimes.com/story/74699.html
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2. OMGPOP Deal Puts More Zing Into Zynga
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Zynga has inked a deal to acquire OMGPOP, maker of the wildly popular
"Draw Something," as well as 35 other social games. When it joins the
Zynga fold, OMGPOP will focus on building new mobile products for Zynga.
The purchase price is estimated at $200-$250 million. Based on what is
known about OMGPOP's financials, this appears to be a smart move for
Zynga, said Raviv Turner, founder and CEO of Guerillapps.
See the Full Story:
http://www.ecommercetimes.com/story/74698.html
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3. The Shared Spectrum Solution
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We have watched the wireless industry grow rapidly and change over the
last decade. As we now know, competitors in the industry have suddenly
been backed into a corner with limits to wireless data spectrum and
growth. This is a growing problem and a real challenge that both Verizon
Wireless and AT&T have to face. A change in thinking is required to
solve this.
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http://www.ecommercetimes.com/story/74693.html
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4. Customers, Big Data, and the Internet of Things
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The top 10 trends in CRM was the topic of the lead-off talk by analysts
Gene Alvarez and Ed Thompson at Gartner's Customer 360 Summit last week.
Most of the items were evergreens that are fixtures when such trend
lists are drawn up, but there were two that caught my eye, if only
because of their juxtaposition on the list. First was the issue of "big
data."
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http://www.ecommercetimes.com/story/74692.html
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5. Yahoo May Face Bitter Battle Over Board Makeup
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One of Yahoo's major investors, hedge fund Third Point, is calling upon
shareholders to elect four of its nominees to the company's board. This
is just the latest round in what could become a very nasty fight. "There
are a couple of things happening," said Charles King, principal analyst
at Pund-IT. Third Point, which has a 5.8 percent stake in Yahoo,
"clearly has concerns about maximizing the value of that investment."
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http://www.ecommercetimes.com/story/74687.html
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