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• IDG Contributor Network: 3 ways Amazon can address its web service data risk – and what others can learn from it

  02-01-2019 21:22
  As Amazon provides merchants and third-party services with ways to interface with its systems, the company may have also opened its platform to new vulnerabilities. Now, Amazon may just be dealing with a potential major data risk.To conduct business with Chinese parties, sellers need to tap payment processing companies like Pingping and Lianlian Pay to handle transactions. Merchants also have integrated these services to their Amazon Marketplace Web Service (MWS) accounts so that payment inform
  
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• IDG Contributor Network: On technological ‘terrors’

  02-01-2019 17:45
  The other day I posted sort of a tease on LinkedIn on something that I’ve been thinking for a while, and something that I am going to try and elaborate in this humble blog of mine.You know the scene. Empire bigwigs are in a meeting room in the Death Star and they’re talking about how fully operational the battle station is and how it is no match for the Rebel Alliance. Vader steps up to assure that the plans will be recovered soon, and then the other guy talks about how the station
  
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• IDG Contributor Network: Whatever your goals, it’s time to make things happen!

  02-01-2019 16:50
  What does ‘time waits for no one’ mean to you? Until recently, it was just another wise saying my mother shared. While I felt the need to move forward, I did not realize the importance of keeping my actions purposeful and directed, and I slowly drifted off course. By not taking full ownership and accountability, I allowed relationships to lapse while I concentrated on my career. In the process I lost my sense-of-self and drifted from my passion. Now, I am beginning again…focu
  
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• IDG Contributor Network: Leadership truths for an uncertain future

  02-01-2019 15:11
  The Oxford Dictionaries has selected a word of the year annually since 2004. It is a “word or expression that is judged to reflect the ethos, mood, or preoccupations of the passing year.”We’ll take another trip around the Sun before the word for 2019 is revealed, but I’m staking a claim now. The best single-word description of the future is uncertain.Uncertainty is everywhere. The NFIB small business uncertainty index reached a 42-year high in November 2018. Gl
  
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• How Sonic Drive-In serves up mobile ordering

  02-01-2019 12:00
  Reinventing the experience for consumers in the digital age is a daunting evolution for quick-service chains struggling to stay afloat in a sea of similar choices. Sonic Drive-In is taking a bite out of this challenge by pairing its core assets — drive-in stalls and carhops — with mobile and analytics technologies to build a better digital touchpoint for customers.To read this article in full, please click here(Insider Story)
  
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• 15 IT resolutions for 2019

  02-01-2019 12:00
  In 2019, IT departments need to drive innovation for their organizations, not hold them back. They must move more quickly, use the data more wisely, and automate mundane tasks so they can act more strategically.To read this article in full, please click here(Insider Story)
  
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