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"There is no chance that Facebook will spend on infrastructure to build games when so many third parties already do so," he told the E-Commerce Times. Instead, this is a way of allowing Zynga to compete on a platform that more closely resembles that of its industry peers, he ...

"Until late Summer 2012, the persistent delays in the release of BB10 had provided a steady negative story line for RIMM and its products," he told the E-Commerce Times. Conflicting Visions...

"Research In Motion has worked hard to develop its leading-edge BlackBerry technology and has built an industry-leading intellectual property portfolio of its own," the company said in a statement provided to the E-Commerce Times by spokesperson Crystal Roberts. "RIM will respond to Nokia's petitions in due course."

"In general, the majority of consumers don't like drastic change," Kitagawa told the E-Commerce Times. "They don't want to ... adopt new technology if it requires extra effort in the learning process." Further, "most households in the United States own at least one PC, and con...

"The Incentive Targeting acquisition makes absolute sense to me," Schropfer told the E-Commerce Times. "I can completely understand why Google did it, it fits in perfectly with the Google Wallet model." Google Wallet, which is available on Android smartphones, stores consumer...

"It's been shown that there is a direct correlation between a consumer being connected to a brand online and that consumer's likelihood to consider a brand and make a purchase," SocialVibe CMO John Capano told the E-Commerce Times. How this happens depends on a lot of factor...

"Google is generally trying to add utility to Gmail and raise awareness of Google Drive among Gmail users simultaneously," Sterling told the E-Commerce Times. "Gmail is now reportedly the largest Web-based email offering." Gmail's long reach, combined with efforts to make it a...

"It's called 'channel stuffing.' It happened a lot in the past, when companies wanted to bolster their quarterly earnings. Those days should be long gone," Scherer told the E-Commerce Times In fact, it is such a familiar problem that it's surprising the due diligence team at...

"I think one of the core components in native advertising is it's advertorial content," Jed Williams, program director of social local media at BIA/Kelsey told the E-Commerce Times. "It's actually interacting with or integrating with the organic content on the page." New ad fo...

"Amazon has a big head start here, but it's possible that Google can catch up," Carvalho told the E-Commerce Times. "Pricing is not going to be an issue with enterprises, so in the short term the main draw for Google Compute Engine will be with startups." Speed is one way Goog...

Sites such as Google Play, YouTube and other Google-owned sites now offer similarly enhanced features when the user is logged in, Crandall told the E-Commerce Times "Signing in to a service enables providers to offer a more feature-rich experience that is tailored to each user...

One reason for the frenzy is that retailers appeared to have held back their best promotions for Cyber Monday, Henderson told the E-Commerce Times. "There were great deals everywhere and retailers were very liberal with their offer of free shipping." That, plus the positive consumer sentiment, is what made the day such a success...

Still, the 7.x-inch tablet is a size that is gaining traction with consumers, James Brehm, senior strategist and consultant at Compass Intelligence, told the E-Commerce Times The Kindle Fire, in particular, has built a reputation among consumers, especially the price conscious...

"There's good reason to ride the coattails of seasonal events and holidays," Shannon Byrne, marketing coordinator at BlueGlass Interactive, told the E-Commerce Times. "When done right, it provides fresh ideas, generates buzz, and improves SEO. Although evergreen stories are always important to have on file [in a] content marketing arsenal, seasonal marketing presents an opportunity to exercise creativity in drawing your target audience's attention to your content rather than being distracted by someone else's."

This Thanksgiving-Black Friday holiday week, though, appears to be a tipping point in that respect. "Compared to last year, I didn't see or hear of any major crashes or glitches for online sites -- even as mobile commerce clearly increased," Barry Sloane, CEO of Newtek Business Services, told the E-Commerce Times...

"Internet Service Providers and even some governments would like to impose tariffs on companies whose content takes up more bandwidth on their networks," Bambauer told the E-Commerce Times. "Google and other content providers naturally oppose that, arguing that the companies are already compensated at both ends of the connection." ...

"Foxconn's actions toward its workers and the well-reported suicides at their factories will follow Apple around for years to come, no matter whether or how quickly the abuses were corrected," King told the E-Commerce Times. "Samsung should be commended for responding so quickly to the September report by China Labor Watch that detailed abuses. The company clearly understands that bad actors, even if they are located thousands of miles away from company headquarters, cast very long shadows."

"The overall trend was clearly that online sales were up on Thanksgiving and Black Friday," he told the E-Commerce Times. "But we also saw other trends take shape, such as multi screen use by consumers." Consumers used their tablets -- namely the iPad -- for shopping or browsing on Thanksgiving. On Black Friday, though, their smartphones were leading mobile retail traffic. IBM Smarter Commerce also noted that the number of consumers using a mobile device to visit a retailer's site reached 27.8 percent these past few days...

"I think midnight Thursday prices will be the same on Friday," Follett Carter, an adjunct marketing lecturer at the University of Michigan, told the E-Commerce Times. Supply, however, will be a different matter entirely. The biggest wildcard for pricing is online, Carter said...

"EPA has chosen the Microsoft Office 365 multitenant service that stores the U.S. government's data in a segregated community cloud that includes calendars, email, collaboration and scheduling tools for external and internal use," Susie Adams, federal CTO at Microsoft, told the E-Commerce Times...