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"Customers want a standardized mobile payments system to take the cards and cash stuffed in their wallets and pocketbooks to their phones," Rich Hanley, associate professor and director of the graduate journalism program at Quinnipiac University, told the E-Commerce Times "Isi...

"Verizon believes that the alert process that we will be implementing will be helpful in educating our customers about how best to legally access content, addressing those instances of illegal access, while also protecting our customers' privacy," McFadden told the E-Commerce Times.

"So many formerly circumspect people are making their opinions known via Facebook and Twitter," she told the E-Commerce Times. "Perhaps people feel safer because their punditry is not face-to-face; they're hiding behind their computer and phone screens." Certainly there is s...

"They do not have a strong smartphone platform, unlike Apple and Google offerings; they are not No. 1 in the iPad-type platform -- again unlike Apple," he told the E-Commerce Times. "I believe they are a long-term player, but they have been a me-too type company -- opening Mi...

The company's revenue was only a tad lower than expected, Andreas Scherer, managing partner with Salto Partners, told the E-Commerce Times. Profit was a tad higher -- "overall, a good performance." PayPal's performance is worth highlighting, he added. eBay reported 117.4 mil...

There was some good news, however, he told the E-Commerce Times. Google reported consolidated revenue of $14.10 billion -- an increase of 45 percent, compared with the same period last year. Google does not deduct traffic acquisition costs from its gross revenue. In the third quarter, those totaled $2.77 billion, or 26 percent of advertising revenue.

No one stock is truly a tech bellwether, Mike Tarsala, chartered market technician for Covestor, told the E-Commerce Times,"but IBM is both the biggest and broadest supplier -- and its across-the-board revenue weakness was a shock for the entire technology group." It's not a ...

"I don't see Ultrabooks becoming a new category that will drive consumer PC demand and help it return to double-digit growth. It's not the best thing to bet on," he told the E-Commerce Times. There are other growth areas the company ought to focus on, said Wang....

Oftentimes, Facebook's changes either impact user privacy or somehow alter the way people interact with others. "People don't like that kind of disruption," he told the E-Commerce Times. There are a billion users on Facebook now, and keeping all of them happy would be impossi...

Although 94 percent of the respondents were from small businesses with fewer than 10 employees, "even the smallest of businesses may be processing customer information that needs to be protected, such as credit card data," Brian Burch, a vice president at Symantec, told the E-Commerce Times...

There is a case to be made for both sides of this argument, at least in the U.S. Clearly, Google is accumulating a lot of information about its users, Jonathan Askin, a professor at Brooklyn Law School, told the E-Commerce Times. "With such an arsenal of information, Google...

"We are currently in the process of providing comments on the bill to Chairman Issa's staff, but I can say that legislation that addresses CIO authorities and codifies data center consolidation efforts could be helpful in furthering the key IT reform efforts," David Powner, director of information technology management issues at GAO, told the E-Commerce Times...

However, such sweeping generalizations have to be taken with a grain of salt, eMarketer VP Clark Fredricksen told the E-Commerce Times. "Most of the time if you ask a consumer if he or she wants to be in an environment with ads or without ads, without ads is usually the selection."

Texas Instruments has had some challenges and exited some business lines recently, Jim McGregor, founder and principal analyst at Tirias Research, told the E-Commerce Times. "At the same time, it has invested in its analog products. So, at least the company is focusing on areas where it seems to have a competitive advantage -- analog and embedded applications." ...

"This could be a costly gamble for Sprint as it repositions itself, and how the two companies operate is going to be the issue," Chris Silva told the E-Commerce Times. "The Japanese market is very different, and there is a big dichotomy between the two." Acquisitions and Regu...

"I think this is something that Best Buy had to do to keep from losing even more market share," he told the E-Commerce Times. "I believe that showrooming in retail as a whole has been overblown, but it has had more of an impact on consumer electronics than any other market segment. This will no doubt increase their conversion rate." ...

For its part, Google is happy to answer any questions that regulators have about its business, the company said in a statement provided to the E-Commerce Times by spokesperson Niki Fenwick. The Microsoft Model...

ExactTarget's acquisitions also point to a larger shift in the digital marketing industry -- that of consolidation, Alex Lustberg, VP of marketing at Lyris, told the E-Commerce Times Indeed, this is a perennial trend in the software industry; specialized applications are gobb...

"The idea is that there isn't a loophole that can be exploited [by cyberterrorists or other attackers] without consequence," Vik Phatak, CEO of NSS Labs, told the E-Commerce Times Cyberdefense "is important just like any defense," Yasha Heidari, managing partner, Heidari Power...

"Search ads live close to transactions, so they're easier to monetize and therefore plan a budget around," he told the E-Commerce Times. "They're almost fully automated in terms of order placement. If mobile is going to overtake search, it's got to prove to brands that it's going to save them money for the same pop they're paying right now, or mobile is going to earn them money they don't have yet. I don't see either one of those happening in the foreseeable future, i.e., the next one to three years." ...