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"What we're seeing here is an example of corporate horse trading, with the Dell board offering considerably less than Michael Dell and Silver Lake requested," Charles King, principal analyst at Pund-IT, told the E-Commerce Times. "Basically, Dell and Silver Lake realized that the original rules they agreed to -- where abstaining shareholders are counted as 'no' votes -- were far more restrictive then they assumed."

It turns out that a recent change in Instagram's API is at the root of the problem, according to a statement provided to the E-Commerce Times by Facebook spokesperson Jacqueline Rooney "We recently made an update to the systems that we use to fight spam to help prevent future ...

The voluntary approach in the Senate proposal puts some legislative heft behind that approach. "The proposal seems to have clearly minimized the emphasis on a directive/mandatory approach in favor of volunteer standard setting," Paul Rosenzweig, founder of Red Branch Law and Consulting, told the E-Commerce Times.

"Facebook is pursuing a platform strategy that maximizes/optimizes user engagement with its services, and gaming is a critical component of this experience-driven strategy," analyst Harry Wang of Parks Associates told the E-Commerce Times "Compared with Apple or Google, Facebo...

"This is a textbook case of Amazon aggressively expanding its centralized infrastructure to streamline its supply chain," he told the E-Commerce Times. That infrastructure might have grown past the point where other brick-and-mortar retailers can compete. That doesn't mean th...

The last time a president overturned an ITC ban was in 1987. It is unlikely that President Obama will break that streak, Peter Toren, a partner with Weisbrod Matteis & Copley, told the E-Commerce Times. There are, in fact, legal reasons why the import ban should be overturne...

"Sales [of the S4] were disappointing ... but it's irrelevant whether they made the same kind of numbers as last year -- they sold millions and millions," Ramon Llamas, a senior analyst at IDC, told the E-Commerce Times Samsung smartphone sales hit new heights in the wake o...

"Mattrick has come in and likely came to the realization that real-money gambling is not about to be legalized in the United States," Lewis Ward, research manager for gaming at IDC, told the E-Commerce Times "Gambling online is only legal in a couple of states, and while it ha...

"They're obviously trying to invest in multiple areas," he told the E-Commerce Times. "The issue of whether or not they can turn a profit remains to be seen. They pointed to some of their costs this quarter, but there are always going to be shipping costs, content costs, the costs of a device maker making new Kindles. Those are never going to go away." ...

"IDC estimated revenue from cloud computing in the United States would grow to about US$43.2 billion by 2016, while the worldwide market for cloud computing will be worth $206.6 billion," Daniel Castro, senior analyst at the Information Technology & Innovation Foundation, told the E-Commerce Times.

"They're trying to figure out ways to make money, so they're probably experimenting with different things to see what they can get away with," Joseph McElroy, head of marketing firm Corporate Performance Artists and organizer of the New York Inbound Marketing Professionals Meetup, told the E-Commerce Times...

"Most importantly for Facebook, the results should put to rest many of the concerns that so many investors have had since the IPO," he told the E-Commerce Times. Sustaining Growth ...

"Basically, the rule change Dell and Silver Lake are seeking would make passage of their proposal similar to a run-of-the-mill political election, where the majority of votes cast determines the outcome," Charles King, principal analyst at Pund-IT, told the E-Commerce Times "...

"These Motorola Android devices are updates to the existing models at Verizon," Roger Entner, principal analyst at Recon Analytics, told the E-Commerce Times. "The exclusive partnership means that only Motorola will build Droid phones going forward. This will help Motorola as the brand strength of Droid is exclusively behind them."

"These proposed changes to DoD regulations address information and communications technologies purchased by the department, including commercial-off-the-shelf products," Danielle Coffey, vice president and general counsel for the Telecommunications Industry Association, told the E-Commerce Times.

"Netflix is committed to original content, because original content is how they will differentiate from other services," Greg Ireland, research manager for multiscreen video at research firm IDC, told the E-Commerce Times. "This is how HBO and Showtime, as well as others such as Starz, have been able to differentiate from just licensing content that other services have."

"Consumers are much more interested in free delivery and lower prices than in the same-day delivery of goods," he told the E-Commerce Times. That means that even if certain retailers aren't able to match Amazon, Walmart or eBay's infrastructure in terms of same-day delivery c...

"Huawei is a world-leading, proven and trusted ICT company,' said Huawei Global Cyber Security Officer John Suffolk in a statement provided to the E-Commerce Times by company spokesperson Jannie Luong. "These tired, unsubstantiated defamatory remarks are sad distractions from real-world concerns related to espionage -- industrial and otherwise -- that demand serious discussion globally...

"Many people are comparing Netflix's Emmy nominations to when HBO began to compete with broadcast TV with The Sopranos," he told the E-Commerce Times Great television is great "regardless of where, when and how it is enjoyed," said Netflix CEO Ted Sarandos....

"A big part of it is the struggling PC market," Craig Stice, senior principal analyst for compute platforms at IHS iSuppli, told the E-Commerce Times. "When you're a company that relies on PC sales for a big part of your business, you're going to be impacted." The software ma...