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"AOL basically said, 'We don't have to pay Microsoft for this,'" Rob Lancaster, an analyst with the Yankee Group, told the E-Commerce Times Giga Information Group analyst Ken Smiley said that while the innovative Mac holds great appeal, Apple does not own a big enough market s...

EBay spokesperson Kevin Pursglove told the E-Commerce Times that the auction giant decided to phase out PayPal's gambling operations in part because of the regulatory issues surrounding online gaming, but also because that branch of PayPal's businessdoes not fit with the overall objective of the acquisition.

"A lot of what e-tailers were trying to do, in terms of customer attraction and retention and brand-building, was fundamentally sound as a way to approach a new industry," Wharton School of Business professor Peter Fader told the E-Commerce Times. "The questions were about execution and scale."

"The cable business is doing exceptionally well and has been supporting AOL," Yankee Group analyst Mike Goodman told the E-Commerce Times. "New media was supposed to carry the day. In the end it is not about new media. The same fundamentals still apply, and the old is carryin...

"The cable business is doing exceptionally well and has been supporting AOL," Yankee Group analyst Mike Goodman told the E-Commerce Times. "New media was supposed to carry the day. In the end it is not about new media. The same fundamentals still apply, and the old is carryin...

"The cable business is doing exceptionally well and has been supporting AOL," Yankee Group analyst Mike Goodman told the E-Commerce Times. "New media was supposed to carry the day. In the end it is not about new media. The same fundamentals still apply, and the old is carryin...

Hotels.com spokesperson Molly Branch said the company did not shut or slow operations. Instead, alternative sites picked up the slack during the three to four hours that employees were evacuated. "Everyone did what they were supposed to," Branch told the E-Commerce Times. ...

Few things are more gratifying for fans of e-commerce than seeing a traditional company -- especially a muscular, dominant company -- break into a cold sweat over the possibilities of online retail ...

Calling technology both "a blessing and a curse," Jon Lavietes, an account executive at public relations firm Fleishman-Hillard, told the E-Commerce Times that "innovations such as e-mail, cell phones and the Internet give you the ability to work remotely" but can lead to miscommunication...

The U.S. Government Accounting Office (GAO) has determined that states are losing out on millions of dollars in unpaid excise taxes because of online cigarette sales. This realization comes after the Federal Trade Commission got wise a few weeks ago that the government might be able to do more to grease the works for an e-commerce takeoff ...

"We think the Andiamo products are better than what Brocade and McData have and are going to cause some problems for the current storage equipment vendors," Yankee Group analyst Zeus Kerravala told the E-Commerce Times Kerravala noted that if the Nortels and 3Coms of the techn...

"Antitrust issues will always be something to worry about with a company as dominant in its field as eBay is, but so far they've done a good job of avoiding problems," Morningstar.com analyst David Kathman told the E-Commerce Times in a recent interview Kathman noted that the ...

"E-commerce has continued to grow in double-digit gains throughout the year," comScore vice president Dan Hess told the E-Commerce Times. "We may be seeing the early signs of stability or even a pickup in the near future [of consumer willingness to spend]." ...

Paul Ritter, program manager of Internet business strategies at the Yankee Group, told the E-Commerce Times, "The balancing act of managing online sales initiatives in a way that won't cannibalize brick-and-mortar sales has become much less of an issue in the past 12 months." ...

But Giga Information Group analyst Ken Smiley told the E-Commerce Times that the pop-up ad manager is a short-term differentiator at best. MSN is coming out with a similar product in its next version, Smiley noted, and it would not be difficult for AOL to follow suit "These po...

Morningstar.com analyst George Nichols told the E-Commerce Times that the Orbitz IPO will likely draw more than its share of attention from investors. But he also noted that while Wall Street has perked up of late, the IPO market remains uncertain. "There are a lot of regulat...

Yankee Group program manager Paul Ritter told the E-Commerce Times that Hollywood could prove to be a blockbuster. According to Ritter, online purchases of movies and videos will ramp up significantly over the next several years As an example, Ritter pointed to Movielink, a co...

George Nichols, an analyst at Morningstar.com, told the E-Commerce Times that Nasdaq's withdrawal comes as no surprise because rumors of the move have been percolating for quite some time ...

"While other companies have been losing [money] on their PC businesses, Dell has been showing that they consistently make money and gain market share," Aberdeen Group analyst Peter Kastner told the E-Commerce Times Dell first made a name for itself with its direct-distribution...

"You need to integrate the Web into the user's real-life experience," GartnerG2 research director David Schehr told the E-Commerce Times. "The Web site cannot be the total experience unto itself." ...