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Time Warner May Erect a Walled Content Garden

TWC "needs to find the best business model possible that accepts the fact that most, if not all, content will eventually end up on the Internet," he told the E-Commerce Times. "Time Warner is swimming against the tide of television history and demographics with this move to ...

Pandora Fights Fees with Terrestrial Acquisition

"This is a purely economic issue," Parks Associates analyst Harry Wang told the E-Commerce Times. "You have this top-line growth in terms of service. Pandora monetizes by advertising, and a small portion that comes from subscription. The business has been growing over the past few years." ...

X2 Marks the Spot for Comcast’s Cloud TV Initiative

"As a cloud-based platform, X2 transforms TV into an interactive and integrated entertainment experience and makes it smarter, richer and more personalized," Comcast spokesperson Debbie Frey told the E-Commerce Times "Unlike any other video service today," she continued, "it i...

Google’s Waze Grab Is About a Lot More Than Defense

"Google wants to prevent Facebook starting the collection of mapping and location-based information," he told the E-Commerce Times. "Google, with its Google+, has lost the social media battle to Facebook. They want to destroy any possible weapons for Facebook in the future." S...

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IT Companies Back Federal Plans to Battle Patent Trolls

"Cost-shifting of the legal process, especially for the expense of discovery, would go a long way to changing the legal paradigm. That kind of a change has teeth in both directions for the initiator and the defendant," SAS' Boswell told the E-Commerce Times. To highlight bro...

Comcast to Pepper Neighborhoods With WiFi Hotspots

"This is a good way to foster loyalty with their current customers by extending broadband service outside the home or business," he told the E-Commerce Times. It's especially important for Comcast to foster that loyalty. Demand for wireless access is increasing, and several ...

Sprint Leans Toward Sweeter Softbank Offer

"The merger will likely be approved since Sprint is not a big enough a competitor today to muck up the competitive playing field," he told the E-Commerce Times. Without Dish's offer, the path would have been relatively clear for that shareholder approval, said Joel Espelien,...

Samsung Stock Plummets in Wake of Analyst Report

"As for the S4 itself, Samsung self-reported that they'd sold 10 million units in the first month after its late-April launch," Randall told the E-Commerce Times. "Apparently the SIII took about twice that amount of time to get to 10 million units. So by any realistic measure, the S4 is selling well."

Facebook Pares Down Its Menu of Ad Options

"The new changes seem to really combine many elements that used to be choices before, which provides more to the ads being run, as well as really focusing more on what the advertiser's goal is versus making them pick the ad types themselves," Csutoras told the E-Commerce Times. "Lastly, the end users might be happier, as the way ads are shown will get more uniform as well."

FreedomPop Calls for Mobile Revolution

"This is the direction that mobile carriers are moving with their LTE networks -- VoIP or VoLTE -- using the data channel instead of the traditional circuit switched network to transport voice," Ritch Blasi, senior vice president of mobile and wireless at Comunicano, told the E-Commerce Times.

GOVERNMENT IT REPORT

Feds Seek Private-Sector Cybersecurity Help

"Executive orders have the force of law unless or until they are overturned by a president," he told the E-Commerce Times. GSA, on behalf of a federal working group, will submit cybsersecurity contract recommendations to the Obama administration by early summer....

Amazon May Claim a Bigger Place in the Food Chain

"We estimate that food spend comprises about 11.5 percent of overall retail," he told the E-Commerce Times. "This is a big piece of consumer spend, and subsequently worth attempting to develop a strategy around." What's more, the market is changing enough that groceries ordere...

Obama Takes a Swing at Patent Trolls

"One person's troll is another person's innovator," David Mixon, a patent attorney with Bradley Arant Boult Cummings, told the E-Commerce Times Draconian Consequences...

It’s Game On for Wikipad

"It's a portable gaming tablet," independent industry analyst Billy Pidgeon told the E-Commerce Times. "So, ostensibly it will appeal to hard-core gamers. Nobody's going to get this to play Candy Crush or Bejeweled." Vying for the same niche is the Shield, another Android-base...

Can Zynga’s Pink Slips Save the Farm?

Zynga is in a position where something must be done, Ted Pollak, senior gaming analyst at Jon Peddie Research, told the E-Commerce Times The social gaming company thrived off big hits like FarmVille while it enjoyed preferential treatment on the Facebook platform, but momentum...

Windows Phone, iOS Outpace Android

"Android's strategy has been formed around the idea of having availability across device brands and price bands, which has enabled consumers of various budgets and preferences to purchase an Android-powered device," Mary-Ann Parlato, global insight director at Kantar WorldPanel ComTech, told the E-Commerce Times...

Twitter’s Vine Climbs Over to Android

"To be mass market, which Twitter always looks to be, you really need to be on Android," Billy Pidgeon, an independent social media analyst, told the E-Commerce Times "The adoption rate of Android is larger even than iOS, so if they want to have coverage, they need to be on A...

Hulu Might Be Up for Grabs

"The company is owned by content owners so it plays very nicely with everyone," he told the E-Commerce Times. In other words, Hulu is more of a tool of content owners and advertisers more than it's a site for viewers and lovers of TV shows." That model has been enough to keep...

Next Galaxy Tab May Roll In With Intel’s Clover

If the reports are true, the deal will be a huge win for Intel because "Samsung is this decade's Apple," Rob Enderle, principal analyst at the Enderle Group, told the E-Commerce Times. "What they do will be seen by other vendors and should open the market further for Intel." ...

Michael Dell May Get What He Asked For

Shareholders need to make a decision one way or another because the uncertainty is not good for Dell, Val Wright of Val Wright Consulting, told the E-Commerce Times. Earlier this month, Dell reported a 79 percent drop in sales amid fevered speculation that the end of the pe...

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