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Symantec Plans To Address Internal Investigation

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In a Forbes post on Sunday (May 13), Carson Block, chief investment officer of Muddy Waters Capital , said Symantec’s acquisition of Blue Coat Systems in 2016 might be part of the company’s current issues. That deal came with a price tag of $4.65 billion , and Symantec brought in several of the company’s executives.

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Instagram Plans To Turn Context Into Conversions

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to take the sense of discovery on Instagram even further, by allowing businesses to tag products in their organic posts and people to shop from them.”. Users could start the commerce journey on Instagram — and do a lot of the legwork of discovery — but sealing the deal, even by Rose’s account, wasn’t an entirely smooth process.

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Judge Just Says No To Staples-Office Depot Merger — Why Every Retailer Should Pay Attention

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Because it seems this particular corporate marriage will forever live in the annals of things that might have been, but never were, as Federal Judge Emmet Sullivan has officially agreed with the FTC and struck down the deal. Despite the perceived injustice, however, Sargent also noted that the two firms will not appeal.

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Rebecca Minkoff Has Connected Commerce In The Bag

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Trials with Bluetooth beacons in stores demonstrated what any consumer probably could have told retailers for free: People don’t want to be bombarded with notifications and deals. Whatever is on the products — whether that’s a Google jacket, these tags or connected fabrics — the interesting question is what it does and how.

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Kellogg’s Breakfast Council Gaffe

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It’s as simple as adding a “sponsored content” tag on a blog post, an adequately transparent product plug by a YouTube celebrity or even a rapid-fire reading of the fine print — anything that informs the audience that what they’re consuming isn’t completely impartial. So, what’s the big deal? So, what’s a major brand to do?

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Amazon Walmart Whole Paycheck Tracker: Staying Secure, Gaining New Ground And Getting Competitive

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Security Save Of The Week: Blocking The Biggest DDoS Attack Attempt Ever . The massive attack attempt was thwarted by AWS Shield, a service custom-built to defend the cloud-computing platform’s clients from being tagged by DDoS attacks. Amazon Web Services also defeated the largest DDoS attack ever attempted.

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Amazon (And Others) Brace For India’s New eCommerce Tax

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With those mandates, the Indian government said that online marketplaces can no longer enter into such third-party deals, or have a single vendor supply more than a quarter of inventory across a given product. The new tax would come on top of recent changes to eCommerce’s structure, which came into effect at the beginning of 2019.