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B&N CEO Gets the Hook on Losses From Nook

Of course, Lynch had formidable competition, Bruno Scap, president of Galeas Consulting, told the E-Commerce Times "The competition from already established players like Amazon, Google and Apple was too much for it to handle," he said....

B&N CEO Gets the Hook on Losses From Nook

Of course, Lynch had formidable competition, Bruno Scap, president of Galeas Consulting, told the E-Commerce Times "The competition from already established players like Amazon, Google and Apple was too much for it to handle," he said....

Beginning of the End of the Supermarket Aisle?

Peapod's virtual store campaign motivates consumers "to download the mobile app, which allows them to start shopping on-the-go while they're out and about in their communities -- at a train station, commuting to and from work, at a local rec center for their kids' soccer games, [or] at a coffeeshop," Bradley Porter, Peapod's director of marketing, told the E-Commerce Times.

Michael Dell’s Buyout Offer Gets a Key Thumbs-Up

"Michael Dell took a risk standing his ground when the board asked him to raise his $13.65 offer to get closer to Icahn's $14," Val Wright, principal of Val Wright Consulting, told the E-Commerce Times. "It may well pay off now ISS are backing his proposal." The Speed Factor...

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Investing in Fitness: The Shape of Things to Come

All of these gadgets and software fall into a new category called Health 2.0, or Quantified Self. "There wasn't a name for it two years ago, and now there's verticals within this domain," Mike Dodd, partner at Austin Ventures told the E-Commerce Times. Austin Ventures is one ...

Texas Congressman Raps Glass for Lack of Privacy

"Google Glass makes it possible to record and post every encounter everywhere, so its deployment will intensify the debate," Rich Hanley, associate professor and director of the graduate journalism program at Quinnipiac University, told the E-Commerce Times "Congress will incr...

Digital Won’t Kill the Book-Publishing Star

"'Old fashioned' publishers are very proactive online," Lynette Kittle, senior publicist at Random House's WaterBrook Multnomah division, told the E-Commerce Times. "We are not resisting digital trends at all but flowing in all that's available." Amazon's Double-Edged Sword...

Birch Buys Bebo Back for Just a Million Bucks

In many ways, Bebo is starting from such a low bar -- and Birch is paying such a low price -- that any progress would qualify as a success, Rich Hanley, associate professor and director of the graduate journalism program in the School of Communications at Quinnipiac University, told the E-Commerce Times...

Console Wars 2013: The Heavyweights Go Head-to-Head

"I think it's good for the industry and the traditional console space," Eedar analyst Jesse Divnich told the E-Commerce Times. "These two mega-consoles going up against each other adds an additional level of excitement to the industry. Ultimately, I think this is a win-win, not only for the consumers but for the console manufacturers as well." ...

Rackspace Cloud to Power Particle-Smashing Physics at CERN

"We expect to get access to one of the largest and most resource-intensive cloud workloads in the world to work on methods to make CERN's consumption more seamless across multiple cloud platforms by addressing the technical and governance challenges of cloud federation," Chris Jackson, Rackspace's manager for big cloud solutions, told the E-Commerce Times...

Tomfoolery Drops Anchor for ‘Bring Your Own Software’ Crowd

"Our goal is to make a mobile-first application that's typically geared towards people in companies, not selling to CIOs," Sol Lipman, cofounder and chief product officer of Tomfoolery, told the E-Commerce Times "We're in the process of a pretty big transition where people are...

Windy City Next Up for Aereo’s Streaming TV

"Their fate is still up in the air, but they are so confident that they roll out to Chicago and Atlanta," Erik Brannon, IHS iSuppli's senior analyst for U.S. cable networks, told the E-Commerce Times. "They get around retransmission by offering a DVR rental instead of reselling broadcasters' signals...

Federal Trade Commissioner Tilts at Big Data Windmill

"I think she's right on target," Dixon told the E-Commerce Times Whether the program is feasible in a day and age when corporations are increasingly leveraging Big Data for marketing and the White House defends the NSA's snooping on all Americans by invoking the specter of na...

FTC Leans on Search Engines Over Ad Labeling

"The clear trend here is that there are more and more search results popping up on pages and commanding more of the real estate," BIA/Kelsey Senior Analyst Jed Williams told the E-Commerce Times. "This idea of paid search has come to pick up more real estate on the page. Clearly the amount is increasing, which set off government agencies to be concerned about consumer protection."

How Kickstarter Could Shape the Future of Innovation

"Kickstarter has quickly gained momentum in the past few years because they allow inventors to easily bring products to market and raise capital in a nontraditional way," Lau told the E-Commerce Times "It no longer matters how many investors are in your contact book -- the glo...

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Federal Data Center Reductions May Not Shrink Costs

"It's true that several of the measures that commercial data centers employ are difficult for federal data centers to measure, since they do not necessarily have access to information like energy and real estate costs. Still, it's possible to create a model that estimates savings based on square footage and amount of equipment," Weber told the E-Commerce Times.

Microsoft Makes Bing Cool for School

"Apple is Microsoft's biggest competitor in education and has always had a large share of the market," Ezra Gottheil, principal analyst at Technology Business Research, told the E-Commerce Times. "Since 2006, when Apple standardized on the Intel platform, allowing Macs to run...

Oracle Lets MS, Salesforce Onto Its Cloud

Microsoft, which also could stand a boost in its cloud market share, will benefit as well, Hyoun Park, principal analyst at Nucleus Research, told the E-Commerce Times That said, it is worth noting that Salesforce.com -- despite the outwardly bellicose relationship between CEO...

AOL Wants In on News Reader Space

"I suspect that RSS will continue to expand capabilities, such as better support for audio and video," he told the E-Commerce Times. "Most blogs will provide an RSS feed, and we'll be mixing and matching the content we want to see using RSS -- both pre-Google Reader and post-Google Reader." ...

Samsung Pours On the Marketing Pressure With Galaxy Tab 3 Launch

"For market followers like Samsung, in many cases what works is using attack strategies," Sertan Kabadayi, associate professor of marketing at the Fordham Schools of Business, told the E-Commerce Times One set of strategies focuses on beating the market leaders at their own ...

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