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Feds, IT Vendors See Clearer Path to the Cloud

"Cloud First will lead to cloud second. Mandated adoption removed the risk and uncertainty from the first round, and now agencies have peer experience and best practices to work from," Steve O'Keeffe, the founder of MeriTalk, told the E-Commerce Times. MeriTalk recently reported on the challenges and benefits associated with federal cloud deployments.

Icahn Escalates War of Words With eBay

These are serious accusations, of course, and there is a good chance Donohoe's reputation could suffer as a result, David Johnson, CEO of Strategic Vision, told the E-Commerce Times. "It may not be taking a direct hit right now, but if someone else, someone outside of Icahn...

2013: A Perilous Year on the Internet

"Criminals can get these packages, and they don't need a lot of computer knowledge to build their infections and Trojans," he told the E-Commerce Times. "After they're built, the underground market can be paid to distribute them." While the cyberunderground may be healthy, the...

Google Doles Out Cash for Apps Referrals

"Most referral programs are aimed at consumer products or services and work because they tap into personal networks of influence," he told the E-Commerce Times. "I doubt such a program will be that effective for Google, because the Google Apps decision is typically made by IT leadership. The general population doesn't have much influence over IT decision makers."

Democreativity Wants Your Great Gaming Ideas

However, "there are people who don't see themselves as game developers who would be happy to give an idea to a team and see it turned into something real." he told the E-Commerce Times. "There are developers who have more ideas than they have time to make -- some of whom woul...

Mt. Gox: Bankrupt, Accused and Hacked, Oh My!

"Either possibility could be true, and only an in-depth audit will showcase the truth," Rob Enderle, principal analyst at the Enderle Group, told the E-Commerce Times Although Bitcoin was set up to provide anonymity, a number of algorithms have been created that can trace tra...

Fed Ruling May Bring Flocks of Buzzing Drones to US Skies

"The FAA wants to regulate commercial drones as they have the ability to infringe in airspace that may already be occupied or in use," Steve Abdu, executive vice president of technology and training at Expert Aviation Consulting, told the E-Commerce Times. "Some of these dron...

Privacy Groups Bring WhatsApp Worries to FTC’s Door

"During the course of an FTC investigation, we would like to see Facebook or WhatsApp or both institute some form of binding mechanism that insulates WhatsApp users' data from Facebook," Julia Horwitz, consumer protection counsel at EPIC, told the E-Commerce Times However, tha...

1,000 Strikers Protest ‘Illegal’ Offer, Hours at IBM Factory in China

"We expect that IBM's sale of the x86 business to Lenovo will be approved later this year, and IBM's manufacturing company in Shenzhen, International System Technology Company, will become a wholly owned subsidiary of Lenovo," IBM GCG Executive for External Relations Shen Xiaoyi told the E-Commerce Times...

Getty Shifts to Plan B for Monetizing 35MM Images

"I think Getty has finally realized ... that if you're going to monetize in the age of the Internet, the Internet is your close friend and monetization its close companion," Avni Rambhia, digital media industry manager at Frost & Sullivan, told the E-Commerce Times Getty "is b...

Flipboard Gets Its Hands on Zite

Where Flipboard will really benefit, though, will be from Zite's data science creds and personalized recommendation algorithms, Farbood Nivi, founder of Learnist, told the E-Commerce Times. "Surfacing info to the right person at the right time is more important than having lots of information available," he said.

GOVERNMENT IT REPORT

Federal Agencies Knee-Deep in Mobile Devices

"Federal data doesn't give us a clear distinction between types of communications services, so segregating mobile is difficult," Deniece Peterson, director of federal industry analysis at Deltek, told the E-Commerce Times. That said, Deltek's October 2013 analysis of the fede...

Kickstarter Bags a Billion Bucks

"They own the crowdfunding brand," he told the E-Commerce Times. "It's becoming a verb or a noun in many people's vernacular, similar to something like a Google or Facebook. Its dominance is pretty secure, and you can see that in the way that other comparative platforms are r...

Oppenheimer to Fly the Apple Coop

Further, Maestri "was on Apple's earnings call the last quarter, so long-term Apple aficionados would have read that between the lines," Ronald Gruia, director of emerging telecoms at Frost & Sullivan, told the E-Commerce Times Highlights of Oppenheimer's Apple Career...

Zynga Trots Out New Mobile Versions of Old Favorites

If they work the same as the desktop versions and are integrated with them, "they should expand Zynga's addressable market as smartphone and tablet penetration increases," he told the E-Commerce Times ...

Nadella Begins Microsoft Leadership Transformation

"In the battle with Google, Penn's political background should prove very powerful," Enderle told the E-Commerce Times. This "allows [Microsoft] to better defend against and attack Google, which has emerged as its biggest problem, largely because [Google's] ad-funded model destroys the product-based model that currently sustains the computer industry and Microsoft."

Samsung Phone Captures Golden Moment at the Oscars

"The biggest victor of Ellen DeGeneres' photo is Twitter, for it shows the amazing viral effect of social media in real time, including during huge events like the Oscars," Ronn Torossian, CEO of 5WPR, told the E-Commerce Times. "The image, a great picture of a number of Holl...

Mt. Gox Scrambles for Chap. 11 Cover

The digital currency industry has grown very rapidly, so "they haven't had the 20 years or so a Schwab had to establish their processes," Todd Green, CEO of PubNub, told the E-Commerce Times. This is why problems are beginning to be discovered now Signs of the Coming Storm...

Brits Hoovered Yahoo Webcams, Say Snowden Papers

"It would be stretching naivete to think that if someone gets hold of incriminating stuff that can be used to exert influence that they'll refrain from using it that way," Mishkin told the E-Commerce Times These latest disclosures continue to add to a disturbing picture about ...

eBay Places Heavy Bet on Snapdeal

"With 1.2 billion people and growing at a rate significantly greater than North America, the desirable demographics and economics of India are indisputable," Doug Stephens, founder of Retail Prophet and author of Retail Revival, told the E-Commerce Times. "Safe to say, if you're not playing in Asia, India or parts of Africa, you're missing out on massive growth potential."

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