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Monday, August 1, 2011

E-Commerce Minute

E-Commerce Minute: Monday -- August 1, 2011

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Headline Scan
AT&T to Put Top Wireless Hogs on a Data Diet
Integration, Rethought
CMOs, Analytics and the Great Revenue Chase
Meeting the Great Expectations of a New Breed of Shopper
Nintendo Bails Furiously but the Worst May Be Yet to Come

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Podcast
Anonymous and PayPal:The Grudge That Keeps On Grudging (15:08 minutes)
In this episode: Anonymous calls for a PayPal boycott as the Internet
payment provider continues to blockade WikiLeaks donations; Mozilla
makes plans to use Android as the basis of a new, Web-centric mobile
operating system; certain iOS apps get a little trickier to use as Apple
begins enforcing its rules concerning in-app purchases; rumors that
Apple may want to buy Hulu make the rounds, though skeptics have their
doubts; Google gets into a tangle with certain users over what names are
and are not acceptable to use in its new Google+ social network.
http://www.ecommercetimes.com/shared/audio/ect-recap-2011-07-29.mp3

Today's Story Highlights

AT&T to Put Top Wireless Hogs on a Data Diet
AT&T will begin limiting data speeds for the top 5 percent of wireless
data users who currently have unlimited data plans, the company
announced Friday. Many AT&T customers currently operate under a tiered
data plan, but customers who had unlimited usage before the tiered plans
were initiated about a year ago were able to continue downloading and
uploading an unlimited amount of data.
http://www.ecommercetimes.com/story/72986.html

Integration, Rethought
Major trends around cloud, mobile and Software as a Service are
dramatically changing the requirements and benefits of application
integration. In many respects, the emphasis now on building hybrid
business processes from a variety of far-flung sources forces a
rethinking of integration and middleware.
http://www.ecommercetimes.com/story/72980.html

CMOs, Analytics and the Great Revenue Chase
As companies head out into the brave new post-recession world, the top
two goals for marketers are organic revenue growth and margin growth. To
help achieve these objectives, marketing budgets grew by an average of 4
percent for 2011. The crucial question, then, is this: How do CMOs
invest that marketing budget wisely to maximize gains?
http://www.ecommercetimes.com/story/72964.html

Meeting the Great Expectations of a New Breed of Shopper
As recently as just a few years ago, consumers had a limited set of
research options when they were looking to make an informed product
purchase. They may have done a Google search to learn where to buy the
product or noticed an advertisement and visited a store to speak with a
sales rep about it. For larger purchases, they might have picked up a
copy of Consumer Reports or asked friends for advice.
http://www.ecommercetimes.com/story/72977.html

Nintendo Bails Furiously but the Worst May Be Yet to Come
Can things get any worse for Nintendo? Its first-quarter earnings were a
major disappointment, with net sales down 50.2 percent and gross profit
down 84.3 percent, compared with the same period the previous fiscal
year. Sales of its five-month old 3DS game console were absolutely
dismal, prompting the game manufacturer to shore up the product line by
cutting the price to a loss-leading $170 per unit.
http://www.ecommercetimes.com/story/72981.html

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