John Battelle's Searchblog

NOVEMBER 3, 2008

For background, our agency manages search for over 100 clients, mostly online retailers, mostly B2C. Here are total PPC-driven sales, aggregated across all our clients, from Monday, June 2, 2008 through Sunday, October 26, 2008. Our clients spend about $100 million combined on paid search clicks annually.

B2C 40

B2C IT Retail Sales 40

Hunton Privacy

JANUARY 7, 2009

D053530, 2008 WL 5264023 (Cal. The plaintiff argued that it did, reasoning that precluding retailers from requesting ZIP Codes is consistent with the legislative intent to protect the personal privacy of consumers and reduce the risk of identity theft. Party City Corp. Superior Court of San Diego County , No. Civil Code Sec.

Retail 40

Retail Marketing Privacy Risk 40

ChiefTech

APRIL 22, 2007

This is pretty good value when you consider that in Australia the basic Microsoft Office Standard 2007 suite for commercial users retails around AU$700. To get something for the same price you would need to look at something like Microsoft Works instead , however in Australia even the basic Works version retails at around AU$85.

Retail 40

Retail Records Management Paper Archiving 40

John Battelle's Searchblog

JULY 1, 2011

This is what we meant when we chose " Web Meets World " for the theme of the 2008 Web 2 Summit, but it's really happening now, at least in my world. Together they've cooked up a startlingly new approach to commercial consumer photography, including a retail concept and, of course, a fully integrated digital and social media component.

Mining 111

Mining Healthcare Retail IT 111

Thales Cloud Protection & Licensing

OCTOBER 10, 2018

On a business-to-consumer level, we’ve already observed retailers utilising GDPR as an opportunity for innovation and further customer engagement. As mentioned earlier, corporations could even harness positive data security practices to seize a competitive edge in the market.

GDPR 76

GDPR Security Marketing Data breaches 76

ChiefTech

JANUARY 5, 2007

In the future you will boot up your shopping application of choice; maybe its open source or even provided by a retailer. So, what does this mean for the average user? Well let’s say you need to buy something. Either way you won’t type in a URL. Further Reading Articles and Papers Book Reviews and More Intranet 2.0

e-Delivery 40

e-Delivery Communications Retail Access 40

Thales Cloud Protection & Licensing

SEPTEMBER 18, 2023

Virtually every major financial institution, retailer, and scores of payment processors have been the victims of data breaches, incurring both financial and reputational damage. The Clock is Ticking for PCI DSS 4.0 Consumers’ payment data is a compelling target for criminals who continue to circumvent IT security defenses.

Compliance 78

Compliance Financial Services Data breaches Encryption 78

Info Source

NOVEMBER 21, 2017

New Windsor NY, November 16, 2017 – Across manufacturing, retail, finance and other industries – more than 1,200 customers have opted for DocuWare’s cloud-based software as a service (SaaS) model – and that number is accelerating.

Cloud 40

Cloud Retail Manufacturing Sales 40

Thales Cloud Protection & Licensing

OCTOBER 10, 2022

We live in a digital world in which we engage with significant social, government, retail, business and entertainment services now delivered without any direct human service management. Covering 14 years from Q3 2008 to Q2 2022, the figures show that in the last quarter the number of monthly active users dropped for the first time.

Personal data 71

Personal data Data breaches Government Authentication 71

Hunton Privacy

FEBRUARY 20, 2009

CVS Pharmacy (“CVS”), reportedly the largest retail pharmacy chain, has agreed to pay the Department of Health and Human Services (“HHS”) $2.25 million resolution amount dwarfs the first settlement for $100,000 between HHS and Providence Health in July 2008.

Privacy 49

Privacy CMS Compliance Information Security 49

Collibra

MAY 31, 2019

Last week we hosted the largest Data Citizens yet, with close to 700 attendees representing over 300 companies from industries spanning financial services, utilities, telco, technology, retail, healthcare, universities, and more.

Digital transformation 45

Digital transformation Financial Services Retail Government 45

Hunton Privacy

APRIL 17, 2009

British Telecom acknowledged in April 2008 that it had used Phorm without customer consent in 2006 and in 2007. In April 2008, the ICO published a response to the concerns voiced about the use of Phorm.

Computer and Electronics 40

Computer and Electronics Communications Privacy Retail 40

Hunton Privacy

APRIL 3, 2009

Financial institutions that are regulated by federal bank regulatory agencies or the National Credit Union Administration (which issues their own versions of the Red Flags Rule) were required to comply with the Rule as of November 1, 2008. Second, the guide sets out an expansive view of “covered accounts.”

Compliance 40

Compliance Retail Insurance Manufacturing 40

CGI

FEBRUARY 26, 2019

Another key characteristic of this first year was the strong focus on the retail business, which helped the industry to appreciate the complexities of Open Banking from a retail customer perspective. Banks will have to operate differently, increase their focus on collaboration and up-skill their employees to navigate this change.

Financial Services 40

Financial Services Retail Marketing Access 40

CGI

OCTOBER 31, 2018

while the share of spending on traditional direct response media like newspapers has shrunk from 38% in 2008 to 14% in 2016. For utilities, these are green field areas, and clients frequently ask me how CGI provides data support to more advanced industries like retail banking and telecoms. Why is this so? Quite simply, data.

Energy and Utilities 40

Energy and Utilities Analytics Digital transformation Customer Experience 40

John Battelle's Searchblog

DECEMBER 29, 2022

2008 Predictions. 2008 How I Did. That’s pretty much the entire bottom of the funnel, and over the past five years, Amazon has quietly built a $30+billion advertising business on top of it. Predictions 2013. 2013: How I Did. Predictions 2012. 2012: How I Did. Predictions 2011. 2011: How I Did. Predictions 2010. 2010: How I Did.

Marketing 59

Marketing Retail IT Sales 59

eSecurity Planet

FEBRUARY 16, 2021

In 2008, the Kraken botnet with 495,000 bots infected 10% of the Fortune 500 companies. Since 2008, RAM scraping has been a boon for retailers. However, a growing number of botnet attacks are used against IoT devices and their connected networks. Additional features of botnets include spam, ad and click fraud, and spyware.

Phishing 105

Phishing Ransomware Passwords Access 105

John Battelle's Searchblog

DECEMBER 27, 2023

Why can’t the data from retail media networks inform supply chains, for example? That’s because money follows utility, and over the past two decades we’ve built a massive ecosystem of data-driven marketing platforms (Google and Meta, of course, but also Amazon, Salesforce, Adobe, Oracle, LiveRamp, etc).

Marketing 121

Marketing Energy and Utilities Big data B2B 121

John Battelle's Searchblog

DECEMBER 30, 2024

Retail media will consolidate. Question: How many “retail media exchanges” are there today? Retailers have realized they’re sitting on a gold mine of purchase data, but buyers of that data don’t want to work with dozens of different vendors. Answer: Way too many ! And those are just the larger ones.

Retail 111

Retail Search queries Mining Marketing 111