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"There may be companies that will fall by the wayside, but the most vulnerable ones have already failed," Giga Information Group vice president Andrew Bartels told the E-Commerce Times ...

The combination of the Datek acquisition and the cost-cutting focus should help Ameritrade survive the trading slowdown, Morningstar.com analyst Rachel Barnard told the E-Commerce Times "The company has the ability to survive the current slowdown. And with the Datek merger com...

"Convenience, user-friendliness and a widely installed user base have helped [PayPal] grow like wildfire," Morningstar.com stock analyst George Nichols told the E-Commerce Times. ...

Michael Gartenberg, research director at Jupiter, told the E-Commerce Times that Microsoft can be likened to the 1979 Yankees "It was a great team," he said. "And most of the country just hated them."

"We are driving more of our research of autonomic computing initiatives into our portfolio," IBM spokesperson Lori Bosio told the E-Commerce Times. ...

"PayPal is a growth story, and investors responded to that," Morningstar.com analyst George Nichols told the E-Commerce Times. ...

Gateway spokesperson Ashley Wood told the E-Commerce Times that the company was able to grow its revenue between the first and second quarters of 2002 because of its pricing position "That is not typical for the market," Wood said. "It was definitely [pricing] combined with ne...

Some say the move is long overdue. Giga Information Group vice president Julie Giera has told the E-Commerce Times that Microsoft "realizes that without security and user confidence, the potential damage to its market and brand name is tremendously large." To create a trustwor...

"They've all gotten beat up," Morningstar stock analyst Todd Bernier told the E-Commerce Times ...

Lisa Strand, director and chief e-commerce analyst atNielsen//NetRatings, told theE-Commerce Times that more search engines are embracing paid listings because consumershave shown little resistance to them "People understand that the money to pay for these things has to come f...

"A lot of people who have been laid off have gone to eBay as a source of revenue," Enderle told the E-Commerce Times. "Consumer spending has held up relatively well, but they are looking for bargains." Enderle said it boils down to having the right service in the right place a...

"Product swaps or other 'in kind' services between closely relatedcompanies are facts of life and have been used for years to make up formissing revenue in slow quarters," Kinikin told the E-Commerce Times Other reported AOL tactics are less common but still not unknown. For e...

Kolodgy told the E-Commerce Times that as corporations begin to make Web security a business focus, as opposed to an IT focus, and as they place more e-commerce and critical functions online, spending in these areas will increase "The Web presence needs a tighter type of secur...

Customer confidence has been affected as well, Giga Information Group analyst Lisa Pierce told the E-Commerce Times. "Certainly, in terms of the customer inquiries we are seeing, this is shaking confidence," she said Pierce noted that current customers are not likely to leave,...

Giga Information Group analyst Andrew Bartels told the E-Commerce Times that the FTC is likely to find that some industries must deal with state laws and regulations that could make it difficult for them to use the Internet to its full advantage. "There's no question that the...

Admitting you're wrong is one of the hardest things to do in life. So it's no wonder that despite a mountain of evidence that the AOL Time Warner merger seems doomed to failure, the marriage continues. ...

"A lot of the houses have gone straight for the affluent investor, and they've locked them in by saying they could trade any way they want," Kathleen Sindell, a professor at Johns Hopkins University, told the E-Commerce Times. "You can trade online, you can call, you can use your PDA, and, if you're wealthy enough, you can get in touch with your personal broker."

"I'm generally disappointed with the decision," Aberdeen Group senior analyst DanaTardelli told the E-Commerce Times. "Yes, you need to address the situation,but the opt-out approach is weak, and it is certainly a loss for consumerprivacy "Obviously, people don't want to get b...

"What they're trying to do here is create goodwill with their associates and partners, who will then be more likely to generate extra sales for Amazon," Morningstar.com analyst David Kathman told the E-Commerce Times. "Amazon is doing whatever they can to reaccelerate growth in their core U.S. book-music-video business. Increasing sales through associates would be a part of that."

"The consumer market hasn't supported Apple the way it had in the past two quarters," IDC analyst Alan Promisel told the E-Commerce Times. Sales to the education market also fell short, according to the company.