E-Commerce Minute

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E-Commerce Minute: Thursday -- July 2, 2009

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Today's Headlines:
Large Tech Firms: Beware of Obama Administration's Antitrust Plans
8 Steps to Getting Sales and Marketing to Play Nice
Marketers Aim to Self-Regulate Consumer Tracking Online
Amazon Turns Gears of Internet Tax Wars
New Site Lets Citizens Follow the Government's IT Money Trail
Joost Feels the Squeeze

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Today's Story Highlights

Large Tech Firms: Beware of Obama Administration's Antitrust Plans
In a dramatic repudiation of Bush administration policies, the Antitrust
Division of the U.S. Justice department withdrew its recent report
setting standards for the prosecution of monopolization offenses. The
report was controversial from the start. The FTC declined to join it
after three of the commissioners called it a "blueprint for radically
weakened enforcement" against anticompetitive practices.
http://www.ecommercetimes.com/story/67491.html

8 Steps to Getting Sales and Marketing to Play Nice
There are dozens of webinars, seminars, research reports, whitepapers,
and blog postings on the topic of sales and marketing alignment. Despite
the endless flow of resources and suggestions, sales and marketing
alignment continues to elude many organizations. Misalignment is often a
byproduct of a lack of process and a natural result of traditional
marketing and sales roles.
http://www.ecommercetimes.com/story/67493.html

Marketers Aim to Self-Regulate Consumer Tracking Online
Companies that track consumer behavior online for advertising purposes
are vowing to make their practices more transparent and to give people a
way to decline being shadowed. It's unclear how much of an effect the
new policies will have. One consumer group said the changes don't go far
enough, and that extensive profiles of people still will be collected
without their complete consent.
http://www.ecommercetimes.com/story/67495.html

Amazon Turns Gears of Internet Tax Wars
More companies are joining in the fight over Internet taxation begun by
Amazon.com. Blue Nile and Overstock.com have joined the Web's largest
retailer in dropping affiliate programs in North Carolina and Rhode
Island, according to numerous press reports. Amazon also reportedly
dropped its affiliate program in Hawaii.
http://www.ecommercetimes.com/story/67489.html

New Site Lets Citizens Follow the Government's IT Money Trail
It may not seem like most people's idea of summer reading. Then again,
it is the chance to engage in some detective work with billions of
dollars and terabytes of sensitive government data at stake. Better yet,
you don't have to spend any money to read this latest techno-thriller.
http://www.ecommercetimes.com/story/67484.html

Joost Feels the Squeeze
Just three years after launching in a fanfare of publicity, Joost, which
provides professionally made TV on the Web, is shifting directions. It
will now provide white label online video platforms to media companies
and distributors. Joost is closing down its offices in the Netherlands,
retaining offices in the U.S. and the UK.
http://www.ecommercetimes.com/story/67486.html

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