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Amazon Droops Following Profit-Light Q1 Report

Investors are focusing merely on short-term results, David Cadden, a business professor at Quinnipiac University, told the E-Commerce Times. "This has led to significant problems for many firms that wish to please the market," he said. "Firms like Amazon are looking to the f...

LinkedIn Bundles a Personal Assistant Into New Contacts App

"The coolest feature, however, is the 'To Do' feature ,where it highlights people to whom it makes the most sense to reach out because there has been a change in job title, new job, birthday or similar life changing event," he told the E-Commerce Times. "This is a great feature for anyone looking to establish a connection or to reignite an old business relationship."

EC May Go Easy on Google

Google certainly isn't out of the woods yet. Its rivals in Europe have been aggressive in voicing their complaints, and it is likely they will contend that these remedies are not nearly enough, Keith N. Hylton, a professor at the Boston University School of Law, told the E-Commerce Times.

MetroPCS Shareholders Bless T-Mobile Union

Both AT&T and Verizon "were in the process of creating a virtual duopoly that allowed for lower capital spending until Sprint and T-Mobile made these deals," he told the E-Commerce Times. The T-Mobile deal will give it a potential lead in building out an advanced 5G/LTE netwo...

No Extra Points for Zynga’s Strong Q1

"They had a great quarter, but they are continuing to tweak the lineup and cancel games that don't have long-term potential, pressuring results in the near term," Michael Pachter, managing director of equity research at Wedbush Securities, told the E-Commerce Times Facebook Fa...

Market Jitters Hint at Social Hacks’ High Threat Level

"The more apps that are authenticated on an account, the more avenues and vulnerabilities a hacker has to gain access," he told the E-Commerce Times A heavy reliance on cloud services by many of these providers is also a point of concern, suggested Lev Lesokhin, executive vice...

Q1 Wireless Gains Can’t Help AT&T Chase Down Verizon

"Net adds of 296,000 were above our estimate. However, stripping out the 365,000 in tablet adds reveals that phone net adds were negative," he told the E-Commerce Times. "AT&T attributed the anemic postpaid phone net adds to lower promotional activity. We expect net adds to remain flat sequentially as these trends continue."

Q1 Wireless Gains Can’t Help AT&T Chase Down Verizon

"Net adds of 296,000 were above our estimate. However, stripping out the 365,000 in tablet adds reveals that phone net adds were negative," he told the E-Commerce Times. "AT&T attributed the anemic postpaid phone net adds to lower promotional activity. We expect net adds to remain flat sequentially as these trends continue."

House C’tee Chair Tells Consumer Protection Chief to Take a Hike

Barring a bureau chief from testifying is highly unprecedented, but the bottom line is that much of this posturing is just political theater, David Johnson, principal of Strategic Vision, told the E-Commerce Times. "The House Republicans want to show they don't place any we...

Salesforce Slips Social Ads Into Its Cloud Atlas

"The Social.com platform allows brands and agencies to manage all of their advertising campaigns across Facebook and Twitter, both of which are partners with Salesforce.com," Gordon Evans, Salesforce.com vice president of product marketing told the E-Commerce Times. An optimi...

Netflix Plays Its Q1 Cards Right

"Netflix managed to squeeze a profit even out of this declining business, which shows that the company knows how to manage costs," Andreas Scherer, managing partner of Salto Partners, told the E-Commerce Times. Much of the growth can be attributed to Netflix's decision to of...

GOVERNMENT IT REPORT

Fed Budget Makes Room for Cloud, Cybersecurity Upgrades

"From a total IT spending standpoint, it can be difficult to determine what constitutes strategic investments vs. status quo spending. But there are indications that the administration is making such strategic investments to both improve citizen services and to control long-term IT costs," Shawn McCarthy, research director at IDC Government Insights, told the E-Commerce Times...

Microsoft Catches Activist Investor’s Eye

"Essentially, ValueAct has taken 1 percent if not less of Microsoft's market cap. That suggests that the company will not have a significant impact on Microsoft unless it is able to galvanize other shareholders to act with it to push for changes," he told the E-Commerce Times. ...

Mobile Ads Show Life in Google Q1 Earnings

"Google has the right idea on innovation," he told the E-Commerce Times. "When people think the future of technology, they think Google." The company, however, should focus less on innovation for its mobile projects and more on creating a Google-centric business model, said Ch...

Google Grooms Chrome for the Office

"I think these new tools do a great job of addressing business needs," Mike Kaply, founder of Kaply Consulting, told the E-Commerce Times. "They allow businesses to use IE as needed for certain apps without having to educate their users to switch browser for certain websites. They also allow [users] to manage their browsers using their existing infrastructure [Google Apps] on every platform, not just group policy on Windows."

eBay Likely to Be Forgiven for Q1 Misses

"eBay, though economically resilient, is not immune to the slowdown in Europe," Charles Lewis Sizemore, a Covestor model manager, told the E-Commerce Times. Solid Increases Year over Year ...

Apple Falls From Investors’ Grace

"The bottom line is this: Apple will be fine when -- or if -- it comes out with another breathtaking product," Trip Chowdhry, managing director of equity research at Global Equities Research, told the E-Commerce Times. "Before, the market always assumed this would continue to...

Feds Sue to Pry Crammed Charges From Cellphones

"There is legitimate commerce that uses wireless third party billing, and everyone from the Red Cross to campaigns for elected officials have recognized the value of that," Breyault told the E-Commerce Times. "You want to make sure those legitimate uses are protected. But there is a big problem with those because consumers really don't think of their cellphone bill as a credit card, but in reality that's kind of what it is. Because of that, there needs to be reform in the wireless third party billing space."

Cue the Video for Facebook’s Maturing Ad Platform

"Facebook video is really going to be a more impactful or potentially more impactful channel," said Michael Scissons, CEO of Syncapse, which this week released a report on the value of a Facebook Fan. "I think it will add to what they're doing," Scissons told the E-Commerce Times...

Yahoo Investors Waiting to Exhale

"Initially, I think investors were enthusiastic because in some respects Yahoo did better than expected," Chowdhry, managing director of equity research at Global Equities Research, told the E-Commerce Times. "Now reality is setting in," he continued. "There were some disapp...

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