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"The robocall problem has really grown in the past few years," he told the E-Commerce Times. "Unfortunately, the technology has evolved to the point where it is incredibly cheap to make a very large number of these calls in a very short time span." For consumers, these calls ...

"Lowered expectations aren't that much of a change," Michael Pachter, managing director of equity research at Wedbush Securities, told the E-Commerce Times. "They are at the low end of guidance instead of the high end. Given that packaged goods sales were down 24 percent for the industry, their guidance of down 10 percent isn't really that bad."

"Content creation and distribution is always a gamble," he told the E-Commerce Times. "If Verizon can guarantee a higher rate of ROI to content creators, then it's a win-win for everyone." Also, content providers would do well to understand where Verizon is coming from -- if...

"It also shows that if you want your story printed and reprinted and picked up in the media, then you should attack Apple," Entner told the E-Commerce Times. For Apple, it comes with the territory, he suggested. "That is what you get when you are the biggest dog in the yard."

"Even though the penetration of social networks has increased rapidlyi n the recent years, email is still the top platform for sharing files," he told the E-Commerce Times Breaking into the email space is also a smart way for the company to keep up with Google, a top competito...

"The announcement of J.K Shin as a coCEO show how strategic the mobile business has become for Samsung -- a company that sells a variety of consumer products," Andreas Scherer, managing partner of Salto Partners, told the E-Commerce Times "Without any doubt, Samsung grabbed ...

"The dance and exercise titles that popularized Kinect attracted just the new mainstream demographic that Microsoft was hoping to appeal to in order to broaden the user base," he told the E-Commerce Times. "It's those new users that have extended the reach and life of the Xbox 360."

"I think they have name recognition for their brand and could carve out a niche among customers that use physical rentals and want to add streaming," he told the E-Commerce Times. "There still is a segment of the population that supports Redbox, and I think this would be their prime target audience."

"Even Nokia sold 4.4 million Lumia smartphones in Q4 2012," Scherer told the E-Commerce Times. Nonetheless, the number is huge for BlackBerry, said Scott Snyder, president and cofounder of Mobiquity.

"We're very pleased that the feedback has been coming in. As a mission-based organization focused on user benefit, we hope to see more feedback from end users and the constituencies that represent them," Mozilla CTO Brendan Eich told the E-Commerce Times The IAB's Concerns...

"It may be that Google has decided that it wants a more linear growth path for Android, and the success of Chrome is what they want to replicate," he told the E-Commerce Times. Chrome has been making steady inroads in the browser market, surpassing Internet Explorer last yea...

"Facebook has over a billion members; Twitter has over 500 million users; and consumers use many related apps on their phones and tablet computers," he told the E-Commerce Times. Despite this plethora of users, ads for the mobile and online medium have not been required to ca...

"A merger would give T-Mobile more resources, more scale and more spectrum, but there is always a risk of merging any two wireless companies that don't have compatible technology," Boyland told the E-Commerce Times. "That ruined Sprint Nextel in the past because of having to operate on different scales. There will be cost savings due to the combining of services, but the question becomes whether those savings will be offset by the challenges and costs of the merger."

"It is pretty clear that Google has established itself as a serial privacy violator, and this settlement will do little to change that," John M. Simpson, director of the Consumer Watchdog Privacy Project, told the E-Commerce Times. The $7 million "is a drop in the bucket," h...

"Pinterest helps people find things they love and inspires them to act on these things in their everyday lives," Pinterest spokesperson Christina Valencia told the E-Commerce Times. "Our team thinks a lot about how people find these things and have found that some of the best sources for content are businesses and bloggers. The introduction of Website Analytics is an initial step toward better connecting businesses and pinners." ...

"Yahoo has that large media platform that needs some new content to stay relevant as well," Owyang told the E-Commerce Times. "Yahoo really could benefit from a content attractor, and Zynga needs a network. There are some related trends there that could work." Zynga could br...

"iOS tablets have already lost ground to Android tablets," Ryan Reith, a program manager at IDC, told the E-Commerce Times. In 2011, iOS had 56 percent of the worldwide market with Android at 40 percent. The figures for 2012 were 51 percent and 46 percent, respectively. In 20...

"I would say that if it looks like these new devices will not provide a turnaround, then it is time to seriously start looking at options," he told the E-Commerce Times A few comments to the press from Lenovo executives, however, is a far cry from a done deal, said Colin Gilli...

"By creating a splash of awareness, it helps the federal agencies move forward on this and highlights the productivity and quality of life improvements that can be accomplished by teleworking," David Graziano, Cisco director of security and unified access, U.S. Public Sector, told the E-Commerce Times. Cisco is a sponsor of Telework Week.

"Icahn brings decades of experience in IPO and tough-fought acquisitions," David Cadden, a business professor at Quinnipiac University, told the E-Commerce Times. The other shareholders convinced Dell is worth more couldn't have a better standard-bearer, he said. "If you wa...