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"Without having empirical backing and sufficient support for a performance measurement system, you are likely to have highly dissatisfied employees and create a dysfunctional culture," Fullick told the E-Commerce Times. "These types of systems ignore evidence-based management suggestions and run the risk of alienating not just top talent, but the respect of customer bases as well."

"Its principal aim is to better match its library of video content with what it thinks its viewers want to watch," Greg Scoblete, analyst for Digital Tech Consulting, told the E-Commerce Times. "The new UI's goal is to display new, original or recommended videos in a more engaging fashion -- the look is cleaner with larger photos. It also wants to unify its interface across TV-connected devices so that the experience you get on a Roku is similar to the one you get on an Xbox...

"Console allocations are often soaked up by preorders in the timeframe before the launch night," Steve Bailey, senior analyst for games at IHS Electronics and Media, told the E-Commerce Times. "It's historically the case that attendees of launch events will have some form of commitment in place."

"LTE is just entering its growth phase," he told the E-Commerce Times. "Wireless technologies are fairly long-lived. LTE will indeed be the dominant technology in 2019, with very few 3G devices still in market." One of the biggest challenges facing the industry is how to manag...

"This proposal isn't all that radical and fits in with needed reforms. It certainly touches on the issue of patent quality and validity, but there is also a definite litigation context to its use," Bohannon told the E-Commerce Times. Not So Fast ...

"I am not surprised at all by this move," Jeff Kagan, an independent telecom analyst, told the E-Commerce Times "The wireless world is changing and expanding," Kagan said. "Going forward, it will not necessarily be dominated by the carriers or even the handset makers."

"The beauty of a digital platform is its ability to harmonize with converging technologies," he told the E-Commerce Times. "It lends itself to expansion easily. It makes total sense for Flipboard to enable digital purchases." It was smart for Flipboard to go an extra step by a...

Now, the Sunday option shows that Amazon has no intention of slowing down its innovation, Alex Campbell, co-founder and chief innovation officer at Vibes, told the E-Commerce Times It is at best an incremental improvement for customers, he said, and won't be likely to affect w...

"The biggest trend that we've seen is the increase in traffic from video services such as Netflix and YouTube," Dan Deeth, a Sandvine spokesperson, told the E-Commerce Times. "The decline has been in peer-to-peer sharing of video content, but it is also important to note that it is in the share, not the volume, as Internet usage is always going up...

Such specificity in the demand letters would be a significant advantage to the companies receiving them,White & Case partner Bijal Vakil told the E-Commerce Times. Otherwise, they wind up spending significant amounts of money to attempt to comprehend baseless patent claims, he said...

As it happened, the Financial Times beat the group to the finish line, John Simpson, director of Consumer Watchdog's Privacy Project, told the E-Commerce Times 'Particularly Hypocritical'...

"There's an abundance of enthusiasm for Twitter, the Street's new tech darling, and Twitter deserves its time in the sun," Josh Crandall, principal analyst at NetPop Research, told the E-Commerce Times. "It's thwarted competitive threats from Facebook, held onto a loyal following and connected with media in ways no other social platform has been able to achieve."

"Google Barge ... A floating data center? A wild party boat? A barge housing the last remaining dinosaur? Sadly, none of the above," the company began its statement that was e-mailed to the E-Commerce Times and other media outlets "Although it's still early days and things may...

"This looks like the end of the line for the Blockbuster brand, which really stands for transactional movie rental," Joel Espelien, senior analyst at The Diffusion Group, told the E-Commerce Times "Blockbuster is a problematic brand in that it's associated with a legacy means ...

"It certainly is audacious given that Amazon has been partly if not substantially responsible for the decline of local booksellers," Greg Sterling, principal analyst at Sterling Market Intelligence, told the E-Commerce Times Now, Amazon is turning to those same retailers for h...

"A lot of people who probably weren't going to hear about a book like this are now hearing about it. It's free publicity," he told the E-Commerce Times. "It creates an interest because people are wondering, 'Why is she dissatisfied?'" he continued. "Does this guy have some di...

All of these moves have had a favorable impact on the company's brand, David Johnson, CEO of Strategic Vision, told the E-Commerce Times "T-Mobile is seeing an increase in customers due to a combination of reasons," he said. "One reason is that the un-carrier plan is a smart ...

"I am not sure the government even knew what it was buying in terms of all of the various elements of the program with the massive health regulations as well as procurement hurdles. I suspect there are some huge IT architecture issues here," Lundstrom told the E-Commerce Times...

Among the Helpout categories covered at launch are Home & Garden, Computers & Electronics, Health & Counseling, Nutrition & Fitness, Fashion & Beauty, Art & Music and Education, Google spokesperson Iska Hain told the E-Commerce Times "We're excited to see all the ways people w...

"It is a little excessive," Chowdhry told the E-Commerce Times. "That is a significant jump from its original price range, and I think that whether Twitter can generate sustainable traction in the market is still uncertain." Chowdhry's best advice to investors at this point: "...