E-Commerce Minute

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E-Commerce Minute: Wednesday -- June 3, 2009

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Today's Headlines:
Bite the Bullet and Throw Away Your Data
Flanked by Rivals, Apple Revs Up for WWDC
Shih Wrote the Book on Social Media
Microsoft to Throw Bing Ads at the Wall
Report: DirecTV CEO Mulling U-Turn to News Corp.
EMC's Data Domain Bid Puts NetApp in Tough Spot, Says Analyst

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Mobile Development and Multiplicity Madness (34:30 minutes)
iPhone, BlackBerry, Symbian, WinMo, Android -- the world is awash in
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Today's Story Highlights

Bite the Bullet and Throw Away Your Data
It should come as no surprise to any IT manager that your organization's
appetite for data keeps growing every minute. No sooner than a new set
of storage tools is deployed, it becomes clear there's a need for more,
and you start planning the next wave of hardware purchases.
http://www.ecommercetimes.com/story/67228.html

Flanked by Rivals, Apple Revs Up for WWDC
Excitement is hitting a new high in the runup to Apple's Worldwide
Developers Conference, to be held in San Francisco next week. New
challengers are threatening the iPhone, while Microsoft has revived its
Zune MP3 player in a bid to take on the iPod touch. Meanwhile, Apple's
gaining strength in its run at the enterprise market.
http://www.ecommercetimes.com/story/67229.html

Shih Wrote the Book on Social Media
Clara Shih is a friend I met through Salesforce.com. She recently
published "The Facebook Era," which looks at the relationship of social
networking to front office computing. She is really busy these days
promoting the book, and she recently left Salesforce to pursue new ideas
in social networking and to form a company dedicated to the task.
http://www.ecommercetimes.com/story/67212.html

Microsoft to Throw Bing Ads at the Wall
Microsoft is inventing a new malady for which its new Web search site,
Bing, is the only cure. That's the premise of the $100 million, four-
month advertising campaign Microsoft hopes will turn Bing into a verb
and give the software maker a fighting chance against search leader
Google.
http://www.ecommercetimes.com/story/67232.html

Report: DirecTV CEO Mulling U-Turn to News Corp.
The chief executive of DirecTV is in talks to return to News Corp. to be
Rupert Murdoch's second in command. Chase Carey is in "serious
negotiations" to rejoin to News Corp., and talks have been going on for
a while, but there's no set title for him yet, according to a person
with knowledge of the negotiations.
http://www.ecommercetimes.com/story/67235.html

EMC's Data Domain Bid Puts NetApp in Tough Spot, Says Analyst
EMC's all-cash bid to buy Data Domain is going to be hard to beat,
according to Stifel Nicolaus analyst Aaron Rakers. EMC's $1.8 billion
bid, announced Monday, is worth $30 per share in cash, a 20 percent
premium over a previously accepted bid by NetApp of $25 per share.
http://www.ecommercetimes.com/story/67226.html

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