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"Daily deal sites are here to stay," Chemel told the E-Commerce Times. "The public has now accepted that daily deals sites have great products at great values." That shift, however, is part of the reason that Groupon in particular might not be a great long-term investment, sai...

"The committee represented the report as showing substantial business support, but the report is mainly smoke and mirrors and is really misleading," David Inserra, research assistant for national security at the Heritage Foundation, told the E-Commerce Times. The business com...

"A lot of the individual sites have really done a good job of improving that experience and satisfaction of it," Larry Freed, president and CEO of ForeSee Results, told the E-Commerce Times. Mobile commerce differs from e-commerce in that mobile is often used as a companion ...

"Finding Amazon at the top of the rankings and being driven there by the reputation of emotional appeal -- from a company that has no brick and mortar, just one product line of its own, and no interaction with people -- is a fairly amazing finding," Robert Fronk, executive vice president at Harris Interactive, told the E-Commerce Times.

Toward that end, it is a clear positive that Mayer plans to trim the current 60-to-75 mobile apps Yahoo offers to a more manageable 12 to 15, Covestor Model Manager Eric Steiman told the E-Commerce Times "Although less diverse, each app will aim to become a better use for our...

"I think this positions Comcast as a leader in its marketplace," he told the E-Commerce Times. "Competitors such as Time Warner and Cablevision decided to separate content from distribution, but Comcast recognized that owning both content and distribution will add valuable revenue streams. If they can take advantage of their situation and continue to grow the various units of NBC, I see them becoming the leading entertainment company."

"In Slacker's case, that means building up a playlist that's significantly larger than Pandora and Spotify, hiring a new CMO, and committing US$5 million or so in venture funding to getting the word out via a new advertising campaign," King told the E-Commerce Times. "It's more like Marketing 101 than rocket science."

"Applying a P/E ratio of just 12 would get you a stock price of nearly $18. Applying a price/sales ratio of just 1 would get you to $33 per share," he told the E-Commerce Times. "Even though Dell's offer to pay what amounted to a 25 percent premium over the pre-announcement market price, there is a case to be made that it is far too low."

"I think it's exactly what Google described it as -- personal portfolio diversification," Wieser told the E-Commerce Times. "No impact whatsoever on the company or the stock." It's no surprise that the move would draw attention because of the potential amount of cash involved,...

"In a world where the inventory is limitless and the eyeballs finite, the opportunity to drive those eyeballs across as many sites as possible is one that can't be understated," Rich Hanley, associate professor and director of the graduate journalism program at Quinnipiac University," told the E-Commerce Times. ...

"We feel there is a certain amount of cannibalization going on, and that you really need to look at the tablet and PC markets as a whole, because it's at the moment where the majority of people are using both devices," he told the E-Commerce Times. "The future is mobile, and most of the things that people would want to do with a PC, you can do on many tablets. There is a massive shift going on, but people are stuck in their views as to what a PC is."

"It's a good way to target a new audience," Billy Pidgeon, senior analyst at Inside Network Research, told the E-Commerce Times. The site is still new and the categories are just starting to fill with content. One game, Goobeez Pirate Adventure, is currently available for the...

"They now support 10 languages in addition to English, which sounds impressive until you compare it to TripAdvisor, which supports 24 languages, or Twitter at 32 languages," Yunker told the E-Commerce Times. "Google's search engine supports 145 languages and Facebook supports 74. So if their goal is global growth, they absolutely need to ramp up their language growth. You can't have one without the other."

"At this point, we know the discrimination occurs," Sweeney told the E-Commerce Times. "We do not yet know why." One possible explanation is that Instant Checkmate is conducting targeted marketing rather than racial profiling, and that society's inherent bias is at fault....

"There's been a pretty constant stream of bad news coming out of Zynga over the past several months, what with ongoing high-profile employee departures, a diminishing player base, and a stock price that's a shadow of its former self," he told the E-Commerce Times. "Perhaps earnings that aren't disastrous feel like good news?"...

"Facebook knows that it has some trust issues with users because of privacy missteps in the past," Justin Brookman, director of the consumer privacy project at the Center for Democracy and Technology, told the E-Commerce Times. "Whether or not their current data use policy allows for this, I highly doubt they're going to turn it on by default. The backlash wouldn't be worth it."

Granted, Facebook's environment is far better suited to social gaming, which is where much of its virtual currency is spent. Still, Amazon and its developers can expect some kind of windfall, Nathaniel Borenstein, chief scientist at Mimecast, told the E-Commerce Times "A compa...

Twitter's acquisition of Bluefin Labs demonstrates the social network's dedication to branding itself as a leader in cross-media marketing, Wegert told the E-Commerce Times. "The relationship between social media and TV has been well established, and consumers will continue to use them simultaneously to engage with each other and with brands in the context of TV programming."

"We view it as both. The fees are not insignificant and so they give reassurance to some that H-1Bs will not be used to provide a 'cheap labor' alternative to U.S. workers," David LeDuc, senior director of public policy at SIIA, told the E-Commerce Times The fees and processing costs are already so high that it usually costs companies significantly more to hire H-1Bs than U.S. workers."

As for any changes the company will make once it becomes a private entity, "we are not going to speculate on the future," Dell spokesperson Jess Blackburn told the E-Commerce Times. "We will continue to deliver the superior solutions, services and experiences that our customers have come to expect. We are committed to completing this transaction as seamlessly as possible, [so] that our customers are not impacted in any way."