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"Living Social is piling up losses, and Amazon was forced to write down its investment in Living Social as a result," Andreas Scherer, managing partner with Salto Partners, told the E-Commerce Times The daily deal industry is struggling across the board, with some firms faring...

It looks like a desperate move by retailers that need to boost holiday sales, she told the E-Commerce Times. "I'm not so sure that customers, let alone retail employees, will want to leave Thanksgiving early and deprive themselves of their family and feasts in an effort to save money and shop." ...

"Priceline has shown it's an astute acquirer of other online travel resources, such as the acquisition of bookings.com to help it expand into Europe," he told the E-Commerce Times. "Kayak is widely regarded as having the best underlying technology platform as well as outstanding customer service."

"Sensewhere uses a hybrid positioning technology that intelligently integrates GPS with wireless and electromagnetic signal based positioning, such as WiFi, Bluetooth, etc. The technology intelligently switches among these, as well as building a real-time wireless positioning database," Sensewhere CEO Rob Palfreyman told the E-Commerce Times...

"Online piracy is booming by any measure," industry analyst Jeff Kagan told the E-Commerce Times. "I don't see how anyone could conclude it's not." The first set of statistics in the report are straightforward. Internet data usage is surging. In the past year, it increased by ...

"The transaction will modestly improve Sprint's overall spectrum position, with a significant improvement in Chicago and St. Louis," Jonathan Chaplin, director of communications services and equity research at Credit Suisse, told the E-Commerce Times. The deal requires approv...

"Essentially, the upside for American Express is that it gains access to the gaming market for transactions and spending for a variety of goods," Scott Steinberg, lead analyst at TechSavvy Global told the E-Commerce Times. The campaign is a way of increasing engagement for b...

However, Microsoft knows that developers "tend to favor iOS because that's where the money is," Julien Blin, directing analyst at Infonetics Research, told the E-Commerce Times. "Whenever a new iPhone or iPad comes out, developers tend to drop Android and go back to iOS." Andr...

AT&T -- or another major carrier -- could obtain more spectrum, but it would come with conditions, Silva told the E-Commerce Times "There are going to be a lot of moving parts to all this," he added. "The FCC has rules in place that will revisit spectrum holding and what a c...

AT&T -- or another major carrier -- could obtain more spectrum, but it would come with conditions, Silva told the E-Commerce Times "There are going to be a lot of moving parts to all this," he added. "The FCC has rules in place that will revisit spectrum holding and what a c...

"AOL is like our dear old Grandpa. We still love him, but he's old and tired," he told the E-Commerce Times. "AOL has been trying to remake itself over the years to try and recapture its glory and success." Continuing Momentum...

"Building on NIST's core capabilities in scientific research, applied research and technology transfer, the center will help businesses use realistic, proven cybersecurity solutions that solve challenges across market segments," she told the E-Commerce Times. Companies intere...

"There is no uniform definition for FRAND," Peter S. Vogel, partner with Gardere Wynne Sewell, told the E-Commerce Times. Establishing one would be difficult. "Every single patent has a different value in the marketplace, so determining a uniform definition would be a huge ...

"Much of Netflix's user activity now comes through instant streaming," Sterling told the E-Commerce Times. "The inventory and titles available on that side of the service are exceedingly weak and thus users have grown more dissatisfied." However, Icahn isn't looking at buying...

Without a doubt, investor confidence in Groupon has plummeted, Peter Krasilovsky, an analyst with BIA/Kelsey, told the E-Commerce Times On paper, the company is making all the right moves to reposition itself, he said. "The question is, will investors have the patience to wai...

"The reasons Android's so strong are obvious -- it has tons of vendors ranging from the really huge to the really tiny, there is no licensing fee, so vendors can put as much or as little money as they want into development, and you have models ranging from entry-level to the high end where you pay US$600 to $700," Ramon Llamas, research manager at IDC, told the E-Commerce Times...

"Google is kind of the third party that gets dragged into this," he told the E-Commerce Times. "Google has a lot of money at stake with its advertisements, but advertisers have found a way to get around those trademark protections. So Google gets dragged into the fight when smaller companies come out of the woodwork to contest this against Google rather than amongst themselves." ...

"Google is certainly the target of both U.S. and European inquiries for potential antitrust violations,"Peter Toren, attorney for Weisbrod Matteis & Copley, told the E-Commerce Times. It is one of the hazards of being a multinational player with a strong dominance in an industry.

"All of the FCC's actions are important and helpful to the industry. We applaud the commitment to modernizing the rural health program by boosting interoperability through electronic health records," Jennifer Covich Bordenick, chief executive officer of the eHealth Initiaitve, told the E-Commerce Times. "Many times, patients in rural areas do not have sufficient access to healthcare providers. Fortunately, research shows that the majority of patients, including those who come from disadvantaged populations and rural populations often have access to a mobile device or smartphone. These patients have the necessary tools at their fingertips to help manage their care more effectively," she said...

"He didn't acquire a 5.5 million-share stake in Netflix to build the business," he told the E-Commerce Times. "Icahn will do what he tried to do with Clorox and what he successfully did at Motorola, where he pushed to have the company split off its hardware business, which was eventually acquired by Google for $12.5 billion."