Summer Interview Series #1 - A Recipe for Marketing and IT Harmony From Peter Kretzman
It’s summer, and I wish that I could say I’m doing interviews instead of solitary blog posts because I’m on vacation. But actually, I’m doing them because I’m really busy, and because I know some terrific talents in the e-commerce space that I always enjoy talking to. One of them is Peter Kretzman. Peter and I worked together when he was CIO

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Alibaba.com, Shark Fans and the Flap Over Finning
For the past seven years, Patric Douglas has run a San Francisco company that gives people a very unusual vacation experience. His customers go out on a boat, get into cages, are submerged beneath the surface of the ocean, and watch as sharks swim by. It’s called shark diving, and Douglas, 36, has found enough thrill-seekers that his company, Mega Outdoor Adventures, takes about 500 people a year on excursions.

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Panero to Exit XM as Merger Gathers Momentum
XM Satellite Radio’s cofounder and longtime Chief Executive Officer Hugh Panero will vacate the CEO post in August, the company announced. XM did not immediately name a full-time replacement, instead saying it would use its second quarter earnings conference call scheduled for Thursday morning to outline its plans for the “management transition.”

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Amazon Net Soars 257 Percent on Potter’s Broomstick
Amazon.com blew by Wall Street expectations Tuesday when it reported its second quarter sales for 2007 were up 35 percent year-over-year. Media sales grew 27 percent, no doubt boosted by 1.5-plus million Harry Potter and the Deathly Hallows prerelease orders made by the quarter ending June 30. However, growth in electronics and other general merchandise grew a whopping 55 percent.