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Sears picks new online leader; Let's hope he gets the security thing

Sears Holdings is expected to name a Microsoft veteran to head its online business. According to the Wall Street Journal, Sears will name James Barr, who was the general manager of Microsoft's MSN Shopping and Marketplaces. Barr will become a senior vice president of Sears Holdings. ...

Tags: Sears Roebuck & Co., Leader, Sears Holdings, James Barr, Security, Larry Dignan

Blog posts 2008-01-26

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News to know: Windows 7; IBM; Sony; Apple

Here are today's notable headlines. You can get News To Know via email alert and RSS daily. For continuous updates see BNET's around-the-Web tech coverage. Ed Bott: Measuring Windows 7 performance Dancho Danchev: Click fraud facilitating Bahama botnet steals ad revenue from Google ...

Tags: Sony Corp., Google Inc., Larry Dignan, Sony Vaio, Apple Inc., Laptop Computer, IBM Corp., Eaton, Microsoft Windows 7, Microsoft Windows, Desktops, Operating Systems, Software, Hardware

Blog posts 2009-10-09

Sears Holdings Corporation: A silent giant in social media

The company credits an existing social media presence for helping it get through a crisis. by Jennifer Leggio

Tags: Sears Roebuck & Co., Social Media, Jennifer Leggio

Blog posts 2009-10-08

Behavioral Data: Valuing Customers. Then Avoiding Them.

There’s little question that just about every profit-making company out there would like to know exactly what you’re doing on the Web, all the time. And that there’s a clear profitable market to be had in data that captures your “behavior” on the Internet. ...

Tags: Customer, Channel Management, Retail, Marketing, Tom Steinert-Threlkeld

Blog posts 2009-06-05

SuccessFactors lands big deployment, new cloud computing VP

SuccessFactors, which offers on-demand human capital management software, said Wednesday that it has landed a deployment of 300,000 users bringing its user base to 4.5 million. In addition, it has named former eBay exec Tom Fisher as vice president of cloud computing. The 300,000 user deployment was...

Tags: SuccessFactors Inc., Human Capital, Retail, Cloud Computing, Software As A Service (SaaS), Managed Hosting, Human Resources, Workforce Management, Emerging Technologies, Larry Dignan

Blog posts 2009-04-29

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Blog posts 2009-03-25

Researcher: Sears' use of ComScore software falls short on privacy

Ben Edelman, an assistant professor at the Harvard Business School and noted anti-spyware researcher, says Sears and Kmart customers are giving up too much private data when they join a marketing program called "My SHC Community." Edelman walks through the installation of the ComScore software that powers Sears Holdings...

Tags: Software, Sears Roebuck & Co., Ben Edelman, ComScore Networks Inc., Privacy, FTC, Sears Holdings Community, Tools & Techniques, Management, Larry Dignan

Blog posts 2008-01-01

Why Apple's board is standing by Jobs

Why Apple's board is standing by JobsCan you say DUH?Let's see, those that made the most money are standing behind the decision. Can you say DUH???Steve Jobs '08"...and an Apple on every desk."Take heartfor amongst this world of corporate corruption, greed and unethical behavior there shines a beacon of...

Tags: Financial accounting, Investment, Marketing research, job, board, Steve Jobs, Apple Inc., Microsoft Corp., financial, vision

Discussion threads 2007-02-01