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E-Commerce Minute: Friday -- April 27, 2012
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Headline Scan
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1. Amazon Investors Shake Off Profit Drop
2. Walmart Lets Customers Shop Online, Schlep to a Store to Pay
3. Match the Big Data Job to the Big Data Solution
4. Will Apple Sputter When It Runs Out of Jobs Juice?
5. SugarCRM 6.5 Adds Just a Touch of Sweetener
6. Can Nintendo Play a Winning Come-From-Behind Game?
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Would You Let Your Data Sleep Over at Google's House? (13:03 minutes)
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In this episode: Google unveils Google Drive, a free data storage
service, though its ToS makes privacy advocates do a double-take; Google
and Oracle land blows against each other during their second week of
courtroom testimony; patent alliances become tangled as Facebook buys IP
that Microsoft just picked up from AOL; the FBI marks July 9 as the date
it'll pull the plug on a server operation, potentially leaving thousands
of computer users without Internet access; an organization reveals plans
to mine asteroids for resources.
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Story Highlights
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1. Amazon Investors Shake Off Profit Drop
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Amazon's first fiscal quarter surprised shareholders Thursday by beating
performance expectations. Investors sent shares upward even though the
online retailer reported a 35 percent drop in net income. Amazon
announced a net income of $130 million, or 28 cents a share, for its
latest quarter.
See the Full Story:
http://www.ecommercetimes.com/story/74973.html
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2. Walmart Lets Customers Shop Online, Schlep to a Store to Pay
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Walmart is targeting an interesting customer segment -- shoppers with
access to the Internet but perhaps no credit card to use for purchases
-- with its newly launched "Pay with Cash" initiative. It allows a
customer to shop at the Walmart.com website and then pay for the order
at a local Walmart store. Walmart will then ship the order to the
customer.
See the Full Story:
http://www.ecommercetimes.com/story/74972.html
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3. Match the Big Data Job to the Big Data Solution
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In the rush to play in the Big Data game, it's easy to forget the
fundamentals. The fear of being left behind can cause enterprise IT
teams to move directly into pilot projects with a choice of products and
technologies that may not be best designed to solve the identified
business problem.
See the Full Story:
http://www.ecommercetimes.com/story/74964.html
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4. Will Apple Sputter When It Runs Out of Jobs Juice?
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Without Steve Jobs, Apple will fall from greatness, according to
Forrester Research CEO George Colony. "Apple's momentum will carry it
for 24-48 months," he wrote recently in his blog. "But without the
arrival of a new charismatic leader," he continued, "it will move from
being a great company to being a good company, with a commensurate step
down in revenue growth and product innovation."
See the Full Story:
http://www.ecommercetimes.com/story/74970.html
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5. SugarCRM 6.5 Adds Just a Touch of Sweetener
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SugarCRM has just debuted a controlled release of version 6.5 of its
flagship open source CRM offering. In many ways, the release is an
iterative change -- it does not represent the same major shift in
functionality and user interface as version 6 did, when it was launched
in 2010. In one key way, however, the new version is significantly
different: The user interface is much more oriented to search
technology.
See the Full Story:
http://www.ecommercetimes.com/story/74961.html
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6. Can Nintendo Play a Winning Come-From-Behind Game?
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Nintendo has reached a dismal milestone: For the first time ever, it
posted a fiscal year operating loss -- down $458 million for the year
just ended. It is an ignominious turn of events for the company, which
created legendary games like "Super Mario Brothers" and innovative
devices like the Wii. It's clear that not even Nintendo could withstand
the paradigm shift that mobile devices have triggered.
See the Full Story:
http://www.ecommercetimes.com/story/74968.html
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