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"Given the huge amount of attention Amazon received over the drone story -- due to Bezos' 60 Minutes interview -- I would have thought the Prime Air effort deserved more than a single sentence at the end of a paragraph on page 5 of the letter," Charles King, principal at Pund-IT, told the E-Commerce Times.

"Icahn isn't relevant to the story," Chowdhry told the E-Commerce Times. "The only thing that's relevant is who will resolve the conflict of interest." Until that problem is solved, "shareholders will not gain confidence in either eBay's stock or its CEO or its board of direct...

"Cloud storage is still growing enough that companies need to be thinking, what is the next innovative thing we can offer the consumer? What can we give that no one else gives? That's not just within crowd storage, but companies also need to think of features from other areas -- like social networks -- and say, OK, we can do this, too," he told the E-Commerce Times.

"In a discussion about time travel, for example, someone asked what the best thing would be for a time traveler to take on a trip to the past," Levinson told the E-Commerce Times. "I answered: 'a watch.' My comment was removed because it was deemed to be frivolous." Levinson w...

"The government should take a good, hard look at this deal," Jim McGregor, principal analyst at Tirias Research, told the E-Commerce Times. "At the end of the day, companies will look to maximize their profit, so you need to ask what kind of investment they plan to make and what they plan to charge consumers."

"Today, there are thousands of consumers out there enjoying Glass in ways that are both practical and inspirational," a Google spokesperson said in a statement provided to the E-Commerce Times by Chelsea Maughan "At the same time," the statement continues, "we've also seen man...

"Both the U.S. and European officials concluded that the deal would not result in the device market becoming less competitive," Ross Buntrock, a partner with Arent Fox, told the E-Commerce Times. "China's Ministry of Commerce, on the other hand, took much longer -- and at the...

"Twitter is trying to expand the functionality and use cases on its site," Greg Sterling, founder and principal analyst with Sterling Market Intelligence, told the E-Commerce Times "Despite its profile in the media, Twitter is still not really a mainstream social network," Ste...

"Technology moves at warp speed, and regulators and the law move far more slowly. high-frequency trading is clearly a case of technology moving far faster than the law," Tres Arnett, a financial services litigation partner at McCarter & English, told the E-Commerce Times. His take: "There's nothing inherently wrong with high-frequency trading."

"It's not just a commercial marketer who can access this data in conformity with some business protocol. At the FTC forum, it was shown that it's fairly easy for anyone using a laptop to gain access to MAC addresses," Schoen told the E-Commerce Times. Retailers and other busi...

"Russia remains a pirate nation from the perspective of most copyright holders," patent and IP lawyer Raymond Van Dyke told the E-Commerce Times. "By many measures, music, films and software runs around 80 percent infringement -- likely more, despite preventive efforts by the Russian government."

"I think what is most interesting about the European measure is that they were actually able to address the issue," King told the E-Commerce Times. The situation in the U.S. is characterized by a government regulatory apparatus that is more disposed to business than consumers...

"This is a big decision for BlackBerry to pull out of a carrier, but clearly the carrier has not been supportive of BlackBerry," telecom analyst Jeff Kagan told the E-Commerce Times. "BlackBerry knows it, and BlackBerry doesn't want to be in a relationship with a carrier that...

The overwhelming level of consumer support was "one of the bigger surprises" of the study, Duckworth told the E-Commerce Times. "I think I would have guessed it would be a majority, maybe 60 to 70 percent. But the fact that 99 to 1 are saying they want a kill switch says a lot about how aware consumers are of the danger if a phone gets stolen."

"You have to consider things carefully if you bring a CEO on board in California, particularly in an open source project," Enderle told the E-Commerce Times Mozilla's Prop. 8 Mess...

"Samsung is No. 1 in smartphones worldwide, they're No. 2 in tablets, and they're making a big splash in the hot mobile topic of the day -- they've come out with the second generation of smartwatches," Orr told the E-Commerce Times. "And they've announced other products to round out that portfolio. Where's Apple?"...

Android tablets account for 62 percent of sales worldwide, based on figures from Gartner, but Microsoft is focusing on the iPad because "they prefer Apple over Google [since] Apple's economic model is similar to their own," Rob Enderle, principal analyst at the Enderle Group, told the E-Commerce Times...

"They needed to do something like that because of the interest in and the growth of Pinterest and Instagram," marketing expert Lon Safko told the E-Commerce Times. "People really like to share more than just text; they like to share photographs. The biggest restriction has always been the 140-character limit. To put [photos] in as an attachment makes a lot of sense." ...

"This initiative was really driven by our members. Together, the more we talked about where the sectors are going and PSC's unique role, the convergence dynamic became increasingly evident. There is fairly wide agreement that right now, there is something of a thought and advocacy leadership void in this whole area and we are uniquely positioned to help fill that void," Soloway told the E-Commerce Times...

"King still has a lot to prove and remains exposed on a number of fronts -- dependence on game genre, dependence on a sole title for the majority of revenue, and dependence on the U.S. and Europe," Bailey told the E-Commerce Times It also seems to be worried about the boom-and...