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"To me that's the big takeaway. Clearly there's a lot of activity happening on mobile channels, and previously they weren't reported," Andrew Lipsman, vice president of industry analysis at comScore told the E-Commerce Times. "There are a few publishers out there getting huge gains -- they are mobile first."

"As far as moneymaking apps on Facebook, it has been mostly games," Pidgeon told the E-Commerce Times. "It can make money with games -- but there are a lot of buts. The big thing about the way games are integrated into Facebook is that it utilizes notifications and news feeds, and this hasn't been used carefully. When someone plays a game, this can go to the news feed, and that can be effective -- but if it is overused, it can even annoy gamers." ...

"The online advertising ecosystem has been increasingly dependent on the use of data," he told the E-Commerce Times. "Advertisers, publishers and ad-tech companies are for the most part voracious consumers of data, and cookies in particular." Adding that relevancy to Facebook ...

"Now they don't have to walk into the store, find the customer service desk, wait in line and so on to get their purchase," he told the E-Commerce Times However, from a big-picture standpoint, the locker service is very telling. It illustrates Walmart is going to keep pushing...

"Over the years, as Google developed Android and continued to grow, Apple increasingly considered Google a competitive threat and decided to replace the Google Maps API with their own App," Crandall told the E-Commerce Times. "After six months, we now know how badly that turned out for the consumer and Apple."

"The IT network infrastructure in the federal government was designed decades ago and has evolved over the last 20 years -- increasing complexity and driving up support costs along the way," Anthony Robbins, vice president of federal sales at Brocade, told the E-Commerce Times.

"The question is whether Summly has more value on its own terms, via, say, app sales, or as a foundational technology that can be applied to other Yahoo services and solutions," Charles King, principal at Pund-IT, told the E-Commerce Times. "The company's decision to shut down the app suggests they believe the latter is correct."

"What it will do, though, is slow the departure of users that have been leaving the company because it didn't have the iPhone," he told the E-Commerce Times Pushing Out 4G ...

"Any public company that doesn't shop a deal risks a shareholder lawsuit," Paul McWilliams, editor of Next Inning Technology, told the E-Commerce Times. "Michael Dell and Silver Lake, et al., made a lowball offer that obviously had to be entertained." The tabling of two addit...

"The Department of Justice policy change from over a year ago just fell in line with the inevitable," he told the E-Commerce Times. "Gambling has mostly been a state-regulated issue." That could change if Congress should decide to enact overarching legislation. For now, thoug...

"The entire SEM industry was cheering for a successful Marin Software IPO," Larry Kim, founder and CTO of WordStream, told the E-Commerce Times. "This is hopefully a good sign for others in the space, too." That said, Marin Software is going up against two of the most estab...

"That includes the FCC's adoption of shot-clock rules for local approval of new cell towers and antennas, and pre-emption of local regulation of reasonable modifications to existing wireless sites, and a bulldozer approach to clearing spectrum -- regulated and unregulated -- for wireless broadband use," Blum told the E-Commerce Times...

"Facebook has given Zynga distribution and awareness, and the only thing Zynga contributed to the relationship was novelty," Chowdhry told the E-Commerce Times. "I think it would have liked to stay more with Facebook if it could have, but Facebook is building a universal platform and doesn't want to have to think about what Zynga needs from them."

Thorsten Heins is showing himself to be more than the caretaker of a weak and perhaps dying BlackBerry, Bruce White, professor of computer information systems at Quinnipiac University, told the E-Commerce Times. He apparently has taken to heart the saying, "sometimes the best...

"It's an excellent way to go," Gil Levy, a managing partner with ECommerce Partners, which provides consulting services to Jildor Shoes, told the E-Commerce Times. "It's good to put it on the homepage: 'We ship internationally.'" Shopping For the Details...

"Some ads disarm consumers with humor and other techniques, or emotion, and are embraced or go viral," Greg Sterling, principal analyst at Sterling Market Intelligence told the E-Commerce Times. "I think by the same token, consumers recognize that advertising pays for content. There's some sophistication there about it." ...

"Sun joined Oracle on life support, and then they put a guy famous for cutting costs in charge of running the unit. This would be like assigning a doctor famous for doing aggressive amputations in charge of rehabilitating a quadruple amputee," Enderle told the E-Commerce Times. "There wasn't anything left in Sun to cut when Oracle got it -- it needed to be rebuilt."

"Investors should not think the work is over," he told the E-Commerce Times. "Adobe is de-emphasizing product sales and emphasizing cloud services. That's working, but a lot of those customers are being driven over from the old subscription model, and to get more customers they are going to have to dramatically increase marketing, which could mean a loss of revenues."

"Whether you are dealing with information technology, office supplies or fighter planes, better vendor competition can help reduce costs," Daniel Gordon, associate dean for government procurement law at the George Washington University Law School, told the E-Commerce Times. Gordon served as administrator for federal procurement policy from late 2009 to early 2012...

"The @ tag piece is huge," Dave Rollo, chief strategy officer at BLiNQ Media, told the E-Commerce Times. While the "@" is unique to Twitter, it is similar to what Facebook allows on its ad offering. "It is directly in line with all the interest-based targeting on Facebook. I ...