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Target made a similar move earlier this year. Now, with Walmart following suit, Amazon's Kindle product line has been effectively cut off from a large swath of low-income and bargain-seeking consumers, David Cadden, a Quinnipiac professor of management, told the E-Commerce Times. "That has got to hurt." ...

Merchants are in need of this service, as most are using antiquated systems and paying higher transaction fees, Gene Alston, the vice president and general manager of Groupon Payments, told the E-Commerce Times "We saw an opportunity to provide a service to merchants to save ...

"Everyone loved Facebook and the assumed the super-targeting you could do would turn into an amazing opportunity for small and medium businesses," Moore told the E-Commerce Times. "The problem is consumers do not go onto Facebook to interact with ads and tune out the tiny ads that do appear. With their new format consisting of smaller ads sizes and more ads on the page, the clutter gets even worse."

Last month I wrote an article for the E-Commerce Times called "Amazon Spreads its Wings." In it, I talked about the many ventures that Amazon has embarked on, including its rewriting of the rules of publishing and retail sales I also discussed how Amazon was smart enough to re...

"I think this is a U.S. lobby and marketing group to keep the government from doing stupid stuff like SOPA and make sure privacy legislation doesn't wipe out these companies or force them to move out of the country," Rob Enderle, principal analyst, the Enderle Group, told the E-Commerce Times...

"In terms of the redesign, it made the Twitter experience consistent across mobile platforms," Renay San Miguel, chief content officer for Splash Media, a social media marketing firm based in Dallas, told the E-Commerce Times. "It's clear it looks a lot like Facebook, with the background picture and the photo stream. There is more access to visuals and graphics. They've seen what Facebook has done to incorporate those and chose some of the things they think will work for Twitter."

The licensing agreement also signals that Microsoft is likely not vying to acquire RIM, he told the E-Commerce Times. Instead, it suggests Microsoft is more interested in using patents defensively than offensively. "If it were going offensive, they would either buy RIM or the...

"This particular app is a prime candidate of the types of services that can be vulnerable to Net neutrality violations because they offer a substitute to the voice telephony services that AT&T and other wireless carriers offer," Jodie Griffin, staff attorney with Public Knowledge, told the E-Commerce Times...

"This particular app is a prime candidate of the types of services that can be vulnerable to Net neutrality violations because they offer a substitute to the voice telephony services that AT&T and other wireless carriers offer," Jodie Griffin, staff attorney with Public Knowledge, told the E-Commerce Times...

"We have seen very strong growth in the 7-inch-sized tablet, and it is a trend that we think is very important to the industry," IDC analyst Bob O'Donnell told the E-Commerce Times It is still smaller as a percentage of the total market, but it is clearly the fastest-growing ...

While Facebook and other sites of its ilk aim to be all things to all people, vertical sites such as SumZero target select groups of people, he told the E-Commerce Times LinkedIn follows this model with its focus on solely on professional ties. Other sites focus on specific v...

In terms of agency compliance with the Obama administration's 25-point plan for IT improvement, the deficiencies in SP at various agencies "could mean there were no leaders in place, or leaders being developed, with the skills to manage cloud, big data, social media or other initiatives that the agency was pursuing," Clarke told the E-Commerce Times.

"With Apple's dodge here and the billion plus for damages recently, Apple is on a roll," Ray Van Dyke, technology consultant and patent attorney in Washington, DC, told the E-Commerce Times In the ITC case, no damages can be awarded, but it could block key Samsung products fro...

Although it certainly appears that Google is responsible for the cancellation, that is by no means certain, James Brehm, senior strategist and consultant at Compass Intelligence, told the E-Commerce Times. "It could have been a problem with the device or Aliyun. Such glitches before a launch are not unheard of."

"The Social Media Registry was built so the public can check if a site they see within a social media platform is an official government site rather than a fake or spoof site pretending to be government," Godwin told the E-Commerce Times. "We do not have data on impostors st...

The earlier tactics tried by the RIAA and MPAA were dismal failures, Peter S. Vogel, partner with Gardere Wynne Sewell, told the E-Commerce Times "The RIAA filed over 35,000 lawsuits and only two went to trial. Even though those trials were high visibility and the defendants ...

"Naturally, all existing Wii games will play on the Wii U, so shipping with no game at $299 is not as bad as it sounds," Chronis told the E-Commerce Times. "Nintendo is also launching with "New Super Mario Bros. U," and likely wants to boost as many sales of its premier franchise as possible."

Apple will almost certainly provide LTE in its new iPhone, Rob Walch, host of Today in iOS, told the E-Commerce Times. However, that will not be of much use to Samsung, he added, because its LTE patents are subject to FRAND terms.

"He was speaking so fast, which can make investors uncomfortable," Trip Chowdhry, senior analyst for Global Equities Research, told the E-Commerce Times. "He needs to understand how to take the right pulse of all the right stakeholders, and it's not clear that he's doing that."

"Despite a decent recent quarter, Clearwire's success is still contingent on obtaining additional wholesale partners and selling spectrum," he told the E-Commerce Times Crossing Fingers for Joint Success...