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US Senate Gives States an Internet Tax Collector

That is simply not true, Carl Richie, a tax associate principal with the accounting firm Kaufman Rossin & Co., told the E-Commerce Times. There are a number of valid reasons to hesitate about this measure, but the idea that it is a new tax should not be among them, he said.

Adobe Crowds Its Cloud, Says Buh-Bye to Boxed Software

"Adobe is kind of becoming a poster child of how to move from the old world to the new world," he told the E-Commerce Times. "Their strategy is right. The days of shrink-wrapped applications are over, so it makes sense that they're helping a move to a very fast innovation cycle. That's good for consumers."

EC Objects to Motorola Following Letter of German Law

Almunia "has been saying for months that the EC intends to be more active against firms that try to abuse their standard-essential patents," Keith N. Hylton, a law professor at Boston University, told the E-Commerce Times. The EC's rationale makes sense when viewed through...

Federal Workers Lead Telecommuting Upsurge

"There is definitely a huge potential for mobile devices for telework. The trends for increased mobility, and the proliferation of innovative devices such as smartphones and smart tablets -- along with secure mobile collaboration tools that support rich communications with data, voice, and video -- is shifting work from a 'place where you go' to a 'what you do anytime and anywhere' situation," Kacey Carpenter, senior manager, global government and public sector marketing at Cisco told the E-Commerce Times...

Apple Paces Healthy Q1 Smartphone Sales

"Samsung has done a tremendous job building a mobile brand to rival the iPhone, and the HTC One is getting very solid reviews," he told the E-Commerce Times. "So I expect both the HTC One and the Galaxy S4 to sell very well, which would give Android a boost." New Phone Every S...

Both Sides Spin Web Sales Tax Ahead of Senate Vote

The bill "seeks to modernize the tax code for 21st century commerce by allowing states authorization to require all sellers, regardless of selling channel, to collect and remit sales taxes from consumers that are due," Best Buy spokesperson Paula Baldwin told the E-Commerce Times...

Years Inside Intel Could Be New CEO’s Biggest Handicap

"That is why it was gratifying to hear that Intel chose an internal candidate, one who has been schooled on the Intel mantra of 'only the paranoid survive,'" he told the E-Commerce Times. There's a potential downside to being a company veteran, though.

LinkedIn’s Bright Q1 Dimmed by Weaker Forecast

"LinkedIn continues to fire on all cylinders and we believe there is significant runway ahead for the company," he told the E-Commerce Times. The company's three top revenue drivers -- premium subscriptions, talent solutions and marketing products -- all saw solid growth during the first quarter, Bhatia added...

Mobile Industry Castigated for Limp Response to Cellphone Theft

"This obviously benefits device manufacturers as well, as it results in additional sales," Bernard told the E-Commerce Times. Difficult to Swallow...

Buying Into the Bitcoin Craze

"The ability to send an instant payment anywhere in the world, like you can send an email, will have a profound impact on business and consumer spending in the future," he told the E-Commerce Times. Bitcoin operates using public-key cryptography to enable instant payments to ...

Facebook Revs Its Mobile Ad Engine in Q1

"Facebook is facing its challenges head-on," Joelle Musante, director of operations at Affinitive, a Project: Worldwide agency, told the E-Commerce Times. "With the plethora of apps out there, by rolling out Facebook Home for mobile they are attempting to keep their users in the fold."

Asana Positions Itself for the Enterprise

"Asana is simply applying the concept of a network of friends to a network of colleagues," he told the E-Commerce Times. "That means teams that need to communicate in real time and keep track of the conversation can deploy techniques that are common in their everyday life to...

Wall Street Gives New T-Mobile Thumbs-up

"T-Mobile needs to get bigger and stronger. When the AT&T merger didn't go through, [T-Mobile] really needed to get bigger and stronger just to survive, and they have done much more than just survive," Kagan told the E-Commerce Times. "Now they will have more speed, more spe...

Nielsen Logs On to Test Digital TV Content Ratings

"Our goal is to extend this measurement to all digital video, but our initial focus is on measuring TV content viewed online," Eric Solomon, Nielsensenior vice president of digital audience measurement told the E-Commerce Times. "Nielsen 'C3' TV ratings have been determined b...

The End of Social Media Marketing’s Wild West

"These are not regulations," Richard Cleland, assistant director for the Division of Advertising Practices at the FTC, told the E-Commerce Times. "These new guidelines are pure guidance -- more of a self-help how-to." It would be a mistake to regard those guidelines as a tooth...

Phone Passions Runneth Over in Satirical Lumia Ad

"Strategically this is a derivative -- us against them -- and execution with no unique point of view that has been done hundreds of time before," he told the E-Commerce Times There are other problems with it, Cakebread noted. ...

Yahoo Alum Will Help Shazam Tune Up for IPO

"The company was smart to recognize that it's core technology could be used for automated content recognition, which is a key building block for social TV and second screen," he told the E-Commerce Times. "By moving into this market, they open up a whole new addressable market for both licensing their technology as well as Shazam-branded apps."

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Big IT Firms Apply Talents to Fed Cybersecurity Research

"The Center will develop use cases that are based on existing cyberproblems and challenges. For example, the first use case is focused on health IT," Tiffany Jones, director of public sector programs at Symantec, told the E-Commerce Times. Symantec is one of the 11 participants.

Millions of Livingsocial Users Now Prime Phishing Targets

"It's likely they've identified the root cause by now and are ensuring they understand the extent of the damage," he told the E-Commerce Times. LivingSocial obviously had the appropriate network-monitoring procedures in place to confirm that the databases containing customer...

Study: Google Trends Doubles as Dow Jones Crystal Ball

"Our best explanation at this point is that perhaps our results can be explained by the idea of loss aversion," she told the E-Commerce Times. "Behavioral economists have shown that people are much more concerned about losing $5 than missing out on gaining $5. For traders, the decision of greatest consequence that they would make is to sell a stock at a lower price than its worth, so they're going to spend more time researching before making that decision."

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