E-Commerce Minute

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E-Commerce Minute: Tuesday -- July 23, 2013

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Headline Scan
eBay Hustles to Reach More Customers on the Same Day
Sage Steps Forward
Shutterstock's Chris Fischer: Open Source's 'Huge Tech Edge'
Video Games and Violence, Part 2: Follow the Money
Beating Apple 101

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Podcast
How the US-French Connection Became a Digital Divide (20:11)
Earlier this week, reports surfaced that the United States had thwarted
France's plans to propose new international tax regulations targeting
digital companies like Google and Amazon. Indeed, this is not the first
time U.S. tech companies have rubbed France the wrong way. This podcast
examines France's philosophy toward tech giants and discusses whether or
not France's annoyance with U.S. tech companies has anything to do with
the fact that they are, well, from the U.S.
http://www.technewsworld.com/shared/audio/tnw-vranicar-2013-07-21.mp3

Today's Story Highlights

eBay Hustles to Reach More Customers on the Same Day
eBay revealed Monday that it has made its mobile-focused eBay Now
service accessible via the desktop and expanded its same-day delivery
service areas, as the competition among online retailers intensifies.
The company first tested same-day delivery in San Francisco about a year
ago. Later it rolled out the service in San Jose and New York. eBay's
expansion will continue later in the summer.
http://www.ecommercetimes.com/story/78545.html

Sage Steps Forward
Sage Summit, held in Washington, D.C., this week, was a more upbeat
event than it has been over the last two years. During that interval,
the company has had the thankless task of telling its customers and
partners that it was making big changes. The news was not always
welcomed for all the reasons you can imagine. This year, everyone seemed
to be breathing a little easier.
http://www.ecommercetimes.com/story/78546.html

Shutterstock's Chris Fischer: Open Source's 'Huge Tech Edge'
Shutterstock has a nearly insatiable appetite for data storage. From its
inception, the company -- a global provider of licensed photographs,
vectors, illustrations and videos -- refused to pay higher prices just
to stuff its storage needs into somebody else's cloud. Instead, the
almost 10-year-old operation built its own server farm and created its
own cloud software system at home.
http://www.ecommercetimes.com/story/78518.html

Video Games and Violence, Part 2: Follow the Money
At the recent Electronic Entertainment Expo trade show, there was a
common theme to be observed in the demonstrations held by both Microsoft
and Sony of their Xbox One and PlayStation 4 technologies, respectively.
Though longtime rivals, the two competitors both relied upon a similar
approach in demonstrating the capabilities of their latest wares, in
other words. That approach? Action.
http://www.ecommercetimes.com/story/78544.html

Beating Apple 101
This could just as easily be "Beating Microsoft 101," or "Beating ARM
101" -- basically how to beat any vendor that is dominant in a
particular market. There is a way to beat a dominant vendor, but it's
almost never by chasing that vendor from behind. Apple didn't beat
Microsoft by tying to build a better PC, and neither Microsoft nor Sun
ever beat IBM by building a better mainframe.
http://www.ecommercetimes.com/story/78527.html

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