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What a Treat for Retailers: Consumers to Spend $6.9Bn on Halloween This Year

Once mostly the purview of children, Halloween has grown into a major consumer holiday that now includes 18 to 34 year-old millennials and older adults who seize the opportunity for a night of escapism.

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Bangladesh - The Next Growth Market for Your Products?

You feel the energy soon after disembarking at Hazrat Shahjalal International Airport in Dhaka. All of Dhaka, the capital of Bangladesh, seems to throb with bustling masses of people. Bridges, expressway overpasses, and major new neighborhoods are continually under construction. Evidence of the country's rising disposable income is on display at crowded shopping malls such as Jamuna Future Park, the largest in South Asia, and new billboards, which seem to cover every available space, advertise products as varied as packaged foods and smartphones.

The Cloud Could Be Safer Than Any Private System, U.S. CIO Says

Tony Scott, U.S. CIO, says there is no safer place to store data than in the cloud.

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The Cloud: Hackers' New Thieving Ground

Criminals go where they can do the most damage with minimal effort. It's why, for years, hackers targeted Windows rather than Macs - it was where the users, and in turn the data, were. And now we're seeing a steady migration from one platform to the next as popularity grows. Hackers moved from Windows to Apple's OS to mobile. Now, unsurprisingly, they are targeting the cloud.

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Online Merchandisers Anticipate 2015 Holiday Sales Will Top Last Year's

Nearly half of online retailers are "very" or "extremely" confident that holiday sales this season will outperform last year, according to a new survey by Bigcommerce.

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Retailers' Buy-Online, Pickup-in-Store Initiatives to Get Serious Test This Holiday Shopping

Retailers with strong omnichannel initiatives stand to capture market share as consumers take advantage of in-store pickup and inventory look-up.

Risks Can Multiply When Execs Hack IT Security Budgets

With cyber risks looming ever larger, CFOs must avoid "starving" information technology security budgets, the author of a recently released survey concerning cybersecurity and corporate governance warns.

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Despite Cybersecurity Agreement, Chinese Hackers Reportedly Still Stealing U.S. Companies' Data

With President Xi Jinping of China beside him at a news conference in the White House Rose Garden last month, President Obama said the two had come to an agreement that China and the United States would refrain from cyberattacks aimed at pilfering company intellectual property or trade secrets for commercial advantage.

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Chinese E-commerce Company Continues Its Expansion Drive in U.S., Europe

Alibaba Group Holding Ltd. will open offices in three European countries and expand further in the U.S. as it seeks to revive growth and reassure jittery investors.

MIT Pilots Online Credential Toward Master's in Supply Chain

The Massachusetts Institute of Technology is offering an online MicroMaster's credential, providing a new path to gaining an MIT master's degree.

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Calming Near-Term Planning Chaos With A Demand Control Process

Demand Control is a process designed to take chaos out of near-term planning and promote actions that enable companies to profitably meet abnormal demand. The results are better performance and improved working environments.

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Women More Concerned Than Men About Joining Companies With Poor Reputations, Study Says

Eighty-six percent of American females would not join a company with a bad reputation compared to only 67 percent of American males, according to poll findings provided by Corporate Responsibility Magazine.

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