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It is has been a roller-coaster year for E2open CEO Mark Woodward, mainly because that is how long he has been at the helm of the Software as a Service provider of supply-and-demand chain, procurement, and B2B integration applications. Over the past twelve months at E2open, the erstwhile senior advisor to Blackstone Private Equity Group oversaw a ...

In the United States, the 4th of July is celebrated as Independence Day, recalling the time when Americans stepped away from a government they viewed as repressive and forged a new future. Over the years, I've worked for a number of harsh managers and companies. Some were actually good for me -- others not so much. I wonder if we all shouldn't take a moment to consider whether we wouldn't be better off in another career, department, company -- or retired.

This story was originally published on May 11, 2009, and is brought to you today as part of our Best of ECT News series. The term "journalism" conjures up powerful memories for many people. For some, it's the epic confrontation between Edward R. Murrow and Sen. Joe McCarthy, which ultimately led to the senator's downfall and the end of the Red Sca...

This story was originally published on April 24, 2009, and is brought to you today as part of our Best of ECT News series Nothing is as heart-wrenching to an e-tailer as watching a customer abandon a full cart just seconds before consummating the deal. To be so close yet so cashless is more than frustrating; it's harmful to an e-tailer's health. A ...

This story was originally published on April 17, 2009, and is brought to you today as part of our Best of ECT News series You search, you find, you click "buy." Your e-commerce quest is nearly complete. You get to that checkout screen, and you think it's all good. Then the shipping charges get tacked onto your total, and you're left thinking that U...

It's been four months since Google announced it would This story was originally published on March 10, 2009, and is brought to you today as part of our Best of ECT News series. guarantee 99.9 percent system accessibility for users of its Google Apps Premier Edition -- a cloud-based productivity suite of business-oriented messaging and collaboratio...

This story was originally published on April 6, 2009, and is brought to you today as part of our Best of ECT News series. Does cloud computing cause a dilemma for application developers? Does it present problems that devs would not face in building software for earth-bound applications? ...

This story was originally published on April 3, 2009, and is brought to you today as part of our Best of ECT News series Job insecurity combined with financial fear-mongering has consumers slashing their budgets. Cellphone and premium TV services look like easy items to eliminate. Typically, however, those services tie users to contracts as well as...

This story was originally published on March 10, 2009, and is brought to you today as part of our Best of ECT News series "With great power comes great responsibility" is an oft-quoted line from the first "Spider-Man" film. Without torturing the "web" metaphor beyond its breaking point, it also applies to your friendly neighborhood Internet service...

This story was originally published on March 6, 2009, and is brought to you today as part of our Best of ECT News series. In this age of hype and hysteria, nearly every IT product peddled comes with the dire warning "if you do not buy, you die." On a few occasions, however, that claim proves true in the biggest, most unmistakable ways....

This story was originally published on Dec. 4, 2008, and is brought to you today as part of our Best of ECT News series. When it comes to setting up your Web presence, entrepreneurs are surprisingly lax. Depending on who you talk to, about half of small businesses do not have a Web site. Most of those will tell you that it's just too complicated, ...

Microsoft's recently released Bing search engine has begun adding real-time Twitter updates from celebrities to its results So far, it has indexed the Twitter accounts of a few thousand people, Bing director Whitney Burk told TechNewsWorld....

The final day of reckoning in the four-year battle between TiVo and EchoStar has been pushed out a little further. Late Wednesday evening, the U.S. Court of Appeals for the Federal Circuit granted EchoStar's request to stay a contempt order imposed by the U.S. District Court the day before, until its appeal can be heard. The two companies have bee...

With 200 million members who double as very vocal quality assurance officers, Facebook knows that any tinkering with its privacy policy is going to receive a lot of attention. So, its Wednesday announcement of an upcoming series of tests regarding its new privacy settings was carefully marketed as a matter of "control, simplicity and connection" by chief privacy officer Chris Kelly...

In a dramatic repudiation of Bush administration policies earlier this year, the Antitrust Division of the U.S. Department of Justice withdrew its recent report setting standards for the prosecution of monopolization offenses. Announcing the change of policy, Christine A. Varney, the new assistant attorney general in charge of the Antitrust Division, stated that "the Antitrust Division will be aggressively pursuing cases where monopolists try to use their dominance in the marketplace to stifle competition and harm consumers."

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 traditio...

Companies are seeking to establish electronic relationships with as many business partners as possible to enhance competitiveness, make it easier for important third parties to engage with them, cut time and space out of transaction cycle times and drive down the cost of doing business. As a result of exponential growth in electronic information sharing, it's no surprise that higher volumes of sensitive and confidential data are being exchanged, and correspondingly, there are many more opportunities for cybercriminals to steal valuable information. Now more than ever, business partners need to make practical, effective data protection part of the DNA of their business-to-business (B2B) communities...

More companies are joining in the fight over Internet taxation begun by Amazon.com Internet retailers 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....

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....

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 IT Dashboard is the new free online service launched Tuesday by the O...