Headline Feeds
Best Practices for Marketing Automation Excellence
Drive revenue with tips for marketing sophistication with Microsoft CRM. Download the CoreMotives eBook today.
|
MobileDevHQ's Ian Sefferman: So You Built an App - Now What? January 18, 2013 
You could call Ian Sefferman's initial rise to CEO of MobileDevHQ a bootstrap career move. Seeing the rapid growth of consumer interest in mobile apps, he jumped into an infant industry to learn what would push it forward. His interests fell on a gaping opportunity: how to help app developers become more successful.
|
Microfunding: How Fitness Tech Entrepreneurs Get That Rosy Glow January 18, 2013 
Microfunding sites such as Kickstarter, Indiegogo and newcomer ClickStartMe are making it possible for entrepreneurs and inventors from small-scale to established companies to get the momentum they need to put out a product. One category that is seeing a lot of activity is sports and fitness. New campaigns in the fitness field turn up all the time for anyone perusing the microfunding sites for interesting products.
|
|
Showrooming Shoppers Send eBay Soaring January 17, 2013 
A rapidly increasing number of mobile shoppers gave eBay the boost it needed to turn in fourth-quarter results that beat analyst expectations. Revenue jumped 18 percent to $3.99 billion for the quarter, giving eBay a profit of $751 million during the quarter that included the holiday season, when measured on a GAAP basis. Although this represents a 62 percent drop when compared with the $1.98 billion it earned in the year-ago quarter, that figure includes the proceeds of last year's sale of its investment in Skype.
|
Reading the Signals: 5 CRM Lessons From Moneyball January 17, 2013 
With less than a month to go before pitchers and catchers report to baseball spring
training, I'm increasingly thinking of the national pastime -- and specifically, about Moneyball, the Michael Lewis book adapted into film two years ago.
For those unfamiliar with the story, it's the tale of how Oakland Athletics General
Manager Billy Beane used data to build a competitive team.
|
|
Amazon's Same-Day Delivery Will Shake Up Retail January 17, 2013 
I recently went to a local Staples store to purchase a cartridge for my HP laser printer. The cost was about $80, including sales tax. While I was driving home, it suddenly dawned on me that I should have ordered the cartridge from Amazon at a much lower price. As soon as I arrived home, I searched Amazon for alternatives. Sure enough, I was able to buy two laser printer cartridges for a total of $16.
|
Should Businesses Like a Facebook Graph Search Built on Likes? January 16, 2013 
So now we know why Facebook and Mark Zuckerberg have been so busy recruiting
former Google big brains: They coveted their mastery of algorithms, their sure-footedness in navigating mountains of Web-based data. The result? Facebook Graph Search, announced Tuesday by Zuckerberg. Those who were quick to ask for invites will soon get to play with the beta version.
|
|
Facebook Gets Serious About Discovery With Graph Search January 16, 2013 
Finding anything on Facebook has been a difficult exercise for years, but that's about to change. After a year of intense, secret development, the social network on Tuesday rolled out its new search technology called "Graph Search." The technology is designed to make it easier for Facebook members to find information about their friends and others.
|
Sales Productivity January 16, 2013 
We are at it again -- and why not? It's the start of another year, and people are doing predictable things like having kickoffs of all sorts of things. Many companies I speak with on a regular basis are briefing me on new product launches and engaging in a sacred rite of a new year: the sales kickoff. Both of these things make me think a lot. The messaging I hear in briefings is all about sales productivity.
|
|
Google's Schmidt Pitches Android to Chinese Devs January 15, 2013 
Fresh off his trip to North Korea -- and right behind Apple CEO Tim Cook's trip to China -- Google chairman Eric Schmidt joined a panel discussion at the "Geek Park" conference in Beijing. Schmidt reportedly reminded the developers in attendance that despite Apple's popularity in China -- the iPhone 5 sold more than 2 million units in one weekend -- Android is still the top dog in the Middle Kingdom.
|
DeleteMe Mobile App Helps Keep Data Brokers at Bay January 15, 2013 
Data brokers are watching your every move online. They track the sites
you visit, articles you read, purchases you make, and even the names of
your children.To cut through the red tape of monitoring and removing
stored information, online privacy company Abine is offering a mobile version of its DeleteMe monitoring service, which is available for devices running iOS.
|
|
SAP Gets Real-Time With HANA-Powered Business Suite January 14, 2013 
SAP last week released SAP Business Suite powered by SAP HANA, which marries its popular integrated applications with its high performance business analytics platform. SAP Business Suite is the largest application SAP has in terms of customers, said Ken Tsai, VP, SAP Hana product marketing at SAP.
|
Turn Your Marketing Inside Out January 12, 2013 
When asked why he robbed banks, Willie Sutton famously replied "because that's where the money is." Many e-commerce businesses adopt Willie's strategy by focusing their marketing efforts where all the people are. That may work for robbery, but it's a poor strategy for e-commerce. Instead, adopt an inside-out strategy by focusing where the fewest people are. Here's why, and how.
|
|
The UK's Tangled Antipiracy Web January 12, 2013 
In the battle against online piracy, industry and government officials tend to cast a wide net in blocking suspected piracy-enabling websites. Sometimes this process results in the removal of sites that have nothing to do with piracy. Last April, the UK ordered Internet service providers to block file-sharing site The Pirate Bay.
|
EU Shakes Fist at Google January 11, 2013 
Google is facing pressure from the European Union to change the way it presents its search results or face antitrust charges. The EU is concerned that Google is abusing its position as a search leader by promoting its own search services, such as its maps, weather or online shopping information, over another site that provides the same information, EU antitrust chief Joaquin Almunia said.
|
|
In the Cloud, Big Data Scientists Need Not Apply January 11, 2013 
All the hype about Big Data over the past year has succeeded in educating executives in organizations of all sizes across nearly every industry about the unprecedented potential to use analytics to improve operations, sales effectiveness and customer support. However, the hype has also too often made the path to success appear overly complicated.
|
Amazon Expands Its Ecosystem With AutoRip Service January 10, 2013 
Amazon on Thursday launched AutoRip, a free service that provides MP3 digital versions of music consumers purchase from the company. The service will automatically add free MP3 versions of AutoRip CDs to their Amazon Cloud Player libraries when purchased. The service requires that the consumer have a Cloud Player account, Amazon spokesperson Sally Fouts said.
|
|
Schmidt Concludes N. Korea Trip With Plea to End Internet Ban January 10, 2013 
Speaking to reporters after a four-day jaunt to North Korea, Google Chairman Eric Schmidt called on North Korea to end its ban on Internet access. North Korea's refusal to allow more Web access "is very much going to affect their physical world," Schmidt said, adding that it's time for the nation's totalitarian authorities to loosen their grasp on the Web.
|
Target Fights Showrooming With Price-Matching Scheme January 10, 2013 
Target has announced that its brick-and-mortar stores will extend the company's holiday season price-matching policy year round. It has promised to match the prices customers find on identical "qualifying" products at Amazon, as well as the e-commerce websites of Walmart, Best Buy, Toys 'R' Us, Babies 'R' Us and others.
|
|
US Officials Pin Bank Hack Attack on Iran January 09, 2013 
U.S. government officials and security experts are convinced that a recent cyberattack on American banks was executed by Iran. The U.S. has not yet divulged any evidence to corroborate their accusations, but security experts reportedly say the attack displayed a level of sophistication not possible for an amateur.
|
The Steady Drumbeat of the Global M-Commerce Revolution January 09, 2013 
The next-gen e-commerce player is globally minded and logistically savvy, with an eye firmly fixed on the opportunities presented by mobile. If you think this sounds like Amazon, you're right. However, it also applies to countless other etailers and service providers positioning themselves for growth in 2013. The face of e-commerce has changed.
|
See More Articles in E-Commerce Section >>
