E-Commerce Minute

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E-Commerce Minute: Friday -- September 13, 2013

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Headline Scan
Investors All Atwitter Over IPO News
God Loves the Cloud and It's Time to Get Religion
Icahn Scoops Up Apple Stock Post Product Launch Plummet
The Shift to a Subscription Economy, Part 2
E-Media Continue to Erode Print Media
Facebook's New Privacy Rules Spark FTC Investigation
Michael Dell Gets the Green Light at Last

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Today's Story Highlights

Investors All Atwitter Over IPO News
Twitter is moving forward with its long-awaited initial public offering,
and it announced the news in a particularly fitting manner: "We've
confidentially submitted an S-1 to the SEC for a planned IPO," it said
in a tweet sent on Thursday. For more details, stay tuned. Normally
that's not quite the way it works in securities filings, but Twitter
qualifies as an "emerging growth company."
http://www.ecommercetimes.com/story/78957.html

God Loves the Cloud and It's Time to Get Religion
I'm not a religious guy, but I've been preaching about the virtues of
moving to the cloud for a long time. Well before the idea became
popular, I saw the potential cost savings offered by the cloud, as well
as the opportunities to leverage it to generate new innovations. Now,
nearly every industry is recognizing these potential benefits, including
church pastors and other religious leaders.
http://www.ecommercetimes.com/story/78948.html

Icahn Scoops Up Apple Stock Post Product Launch Plummet
Apple received a rude rebuff from Wall Street Tuesday after rolling out
its latest line of mobile phones, but Tim Cook's loss may turn into a
gain for Carl Icahn. When Apple's share price tumbled from a little
north of $500 before the announcement of the iPhone 5s and 5c to less
than $470 after it, former corporate raider Icahn swooped in and began
buying stock.
http://www.ecommercetimes.com/story/78952.html

The Shift to a Subscription Economy, Part 2
Marine liability insurer The Shipowners' Club has signed up to get IT
service management from Axios Systems on a Software as a Service basis.
It is going with the subscription solution to remove the cost and
complexity of security, backups, implementation and upgrades while
retaining full ownership of its data. That, in a nutshell, is why
companies are moving to a subscription-based economy.
http://www.ecommercetimes.com/story/78951.html

E-Media Continue to Erode Print Media
Whatever happened to that venerable weekly magazine we all knew as
Newsweek? The magazine was published in the United States from 1933 to
Dec. 31, 2012. The cause of its demise was the continued and ever-
growing encroachment of e-media into its readership base. Many of us saw
this coming.
http://www.ecommercetimes.com/story/78950.html

Facebook's New Privacy Rules Spark FTC Investigation
The Federal Trade Commission is investigating Facebook's latest overhaul
of its privacy policies. "We're monitoring compliance" with an FTC order
issued previously against Facebook, said FTC spokesperson Peter Kaplan.
That order was part of Facebook's 2011 settlement with the FTC over
charges that it deceived consumers by failing to keep its privacy
promises.
http://www.ecommercetimes.com/story/78949.html

Michael Dell Gets the Green Light at Last
Dell shareholders on Thursday approved founder Michael Dell's $25
billion bid to buy back the firm and take it private, ending a seven-
month battle with a group of investors led by corporate raider Carl
Icahn. This is reportedly the largest leveraged buyout since the
Blackstone Group took hotel chain Hilton Worldwide private in 2007.
http://www.ecommercetimes.com/story/78947.html

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