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Bitcoin Fans Rejoice in IRS Ruling

"The ruling wasn't unexpected," Mike Jude, a program manager at Frost & Sullivan told the E-Commerce Times. "Compensation is compensation, whether you're paid in dollars or bags of wheat, as far as the IRS is concerned." However, accounting will be "very difficult" because bi...

eBay Board Pumps Up Volume in PayPal Clash

"Much of this success is owed to the many synergies that exist between the companies. Payments and commerce are becoming inextricably intertwined, and as a result, the benefits PayPal and eBay enjoy from their relationship will only increase. This symbiotic relationship gives both entities a highly unique and advantageous position in the market that no other competitor enjoys," he told the E-Commerce Times...

Facebook Makes Unreal Acquisition

"Oculus Rift has potential access to the resources and userbase of Facebook now -- however they choose to progress this, it's a very vague road map indeed," he told the E-Commerce Times "Oculus investors will have seen an enormous return on their venture -- with the exception ...

Disney Snaps Up Maker to Court Millennials

"Maker bolsters its lineup with some of the most desirable content in the business, and as a company which has had mixed results online, Disney gets a proven channel to market," he told the E-Commerce Times. "For a company with the size and leverage of Disney, this is a relatively inexpensive additional path into the consumer's hands."

Headless Web Traffic Threatens Internet Economy

"There are some nefarious actors out there," comScore Vice President for Marketing and Insights Andrew Lipsman told the E-Commerce Times. "Some of these websites are created for the sole purpose of generating false ad impressions." Most advertisers don't have the time to verif...

Apple, Comcast Wade Into Streaming Content Talks

"I seriously doubt Comcast will agree to a deal, Mukul Krishna, digital media senior global director at Frost & Sullivan, told the E-Commerce Times "Comcast already has existing deals with much cheaper set-top boxes. It offers home security, it offers a good TV experience, it ...

Pandora Pumps Up the Pricing

"The United States District Court recently ruled that Pandora must pay the American Society of Composers, Authors and Publishers the same 1.85 percent rate through 2015 as opposed to the 1.7 percent rate that Pandora was desperately seeking," he told the E-Commerce Times Overa...

Netflix, Comcast Spar Over Net Neutrality

Yet what is not stated outright is that both Netflix and Comcast "have business and economic reasons for fighting for this that will affect them in a positive or negative way," Dan Rayburn, a principal analyst at Frost & Sullivan, told the E-Commerce Times. That surely influe...

Alibaba Takes Tango for a Whirl

"All that's going to be open to us with this increase in our capital," he told the E-Commerce Times Mobile messaging apps began as "over the top" alternatives to SMS messaging provided by wireless phone carriers. "The carriers have had a really grand time the last 10 years as ...

Big Blue Dons Big Data Gloves to Fight Fraud

"The problem we're addressing is in many ways looked at from singular dimensions within the enterprise," Bob Griffin, vice president, IBM Counter Fraud Solutions, told the E-Commerce Times "People look, for example, at cyber as one area and transactional issues as another, and...

Office for iPad May Be Waiting in Wings

"There have definitely been bread crumbs left along the way," Wes Miller, a research analyst with Directions on Microsoft, told the E-Commerce Times. "It's been imminent for a long time, so it looks like we might actually see it." No Free Lunches...

GOVERNMENT IT REPORT

Federal Mobile Market: Vendors Be Nimble, Vendors Be Quick

"The top vendors in this space are those that are fairly well entrenched, such as Verizon and AT&T, but my advice would be to align messaging and solutions to the biggest capability gaps. Some agencies are examining how to make their infrastructure mobile ready, and many are examining mobile device management. All agencies are concerned about mobile security," Deniece Peterson, director of federal industry analysis at Deltek, told the E-Commerce Times...

Billion-Dollar YouTube Suit Ends With a Whimper

"This suit was settled. These companies can now do business together," telecom analyst Jeff Kagan told the E-Commerce Times, "but that doesn't mean there won't be another suit in the future. This is just the way business operates. In fact, often companies sue each other and do business together at the same time."

Apple Flirts With Lower-End Mobile Market

"I don't think people are looking at the specs when it comes to the [8-GB] iPhone 5c," Jeff Orr, a senior practice director at ABI Research, told the E-Commerce Times. "They'll still buy it based on the appeal of the brand. This is a device that can appeal to people who perhaps thought the 5c with 16 or 32 GB was not low-cost enough for them." ...

Alibaba Seeks Treasure in US IPO

"Yahoo stands to make a lot money, assuming that it sells its shares, which it has said it will," Opus Research Analyst Greg Sterling told the E-Commerce Times. "In some people's minds, Alibaba has sustained and propelled the growth of Yahoo's stock price," he said.

Horvath Hurls Harassment Charges in Fiery GitHub Exit

"The reality is we don't have a very easy time in high-tech," Maribel Lopez, founder and principal at Lopez Research, told the E-Commerce Times. "The New World companies -- those with 25-year-olds -- have less of a sense of entitlement and groupthink." Struggling Through the ...

Amazon Appears Fired Up for Gaming

"I think Amazon is about to jump into living room gaming in a big way," Lewis Ward, research director of gaming at IDC, told the E-Commerce Times. "The stars seem to be aligning. Amazon's done very well, according to our survey data on gaming on its Kindle Fire platform. It's...

Target Missed Bull’s-Eye in Data Breach

"What could happen is the whole enterprise at Target could come grinding to a halt because of false positives or software on the system that FireEye thinks is malicious and is not," Schumacher told the E-Commerce Times "It would take an organization like Target a long time to ...

Yahoo Plugs Yelp Reviews Into Search

"Yahoo's partnership with Yelp unequivocally indicates that it wants to get a stronger foothold in the local search market," Ghose told the E-Commerce Times. "It wants to make gains in the mobile space, too, which it can now monetize using geo-targeted advertising. More than 50 percent of search activities on mobile phones is now about local products and services." ...

Amazon Hits Up Prime Members for Another 20 Bucks

"Gas prices are at an all-time high. If you are [making those two-day deliveries], you have to factor in that the gasoline prices are through the roof," Trip Chowdhry, managing director of equity research at Global Equities Research, told the E-Commerce Times. Another thing t...

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