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"Directors of e-commerce and online marketing staffers ... are becoming the new e-rock stars, replacing the dot-com CEOs of yesteryear," Allen told the E-Commerce Times. On the low end of the scale, entry-level online marketers and creative directors are bringing home about U...

"Older surfers and minority surfers will provide some growth opportunities as they come online," Harris Interactive e-commerce analyst Lori Iventosch-James told the E-Commerce Times. "That's important, since the core base of Internet users has already been exposed to online s...

"HP has come full circle on its software strategy," Forrester Research analyst Joshua Walker told the E-Commerce Times, noting that the company has returned to its 1998 strategy, which spawned a middleware agreement with BEA Systems "It is a practical approach to sticking to w...

For example, AMR Research analyst Louis Columbus told the E-Commerce Times that dot-com mania brought integration to center stage. "Integration is king. That was a huge lesson," he said. Enterprises found that to develop a comprehensive e-commerce strategy, their applications...

About 950 employees, including salespeople, stock analysts and portfolio managers, are out of a job as a result of the decision, although it could take several weeks to wind down some of the company's money management operations, FleetBoston spokesperson James E. Mahoney told the E-Commerce Times.

Stan Prescott, strategic analyst at Frost & Sullivan, told the E-Commerce Times that the $1.5 billion valuation is "suspiciously high." And Morningstar.com analyst David Kathman also sounded a note of caution. "Both eBay and PayPal are great companies," Kathman told the E-Comm...

"Nobody likes to be taken over," IDC analyst Jonathon Gaw told the E-Commerce Times. "If it was a more enjoyable process, we would have a nicer name [for it]." ...

"Based on what I've seen, I don't think these lawsuits are likely to go anywhere," Morningstar.com analyst David Kathman told the E-Commerce Times Even so, he pointed out that lawsuits are common in acquisitions, especially when the deals involve companies that are so hard to ...

"Dell's apparent success is good news for shareholders but does not signal an end to the year-long tough times seen in the PC business," Aberdeen Group analyst Peter Kastner told the E-Commerce Times ...

"We're starting to see the theories of the mid-'90s play out in the real world now," Aberdeen Group research director Kent Allen told the E-Commerce Times ...

Chester told the E-Commerce Times that the groups want cable operators to "have an infrastructure which enables the Internet to thrive in a robust, competitive climate." The ACLU noted that its focus on cable broadband providers was spurred by that technology's widespread adop...

Despite the positive outcome for Amazon, the e-tailer has downplayed its Canadian launch, and with good reason, Morningstar.com analyst David Kathman told the E-Commerce Times. "A lot of Canadians have already been buying books from the U.S. site, and Amazon will have no phys...

Giga Information Group analyst Andrew Bartels told the E-Commerce Times that a rebounding online advertising market played a role in Yahoo's year-over-year growth "The advertising market was hit pretty badly last year, which obviously impacted Yahoo's revenues and net income,"...

"Before we centralized, almost every club had a site," MLB.com president Bob Bowman told the E-Commerce Times. "But some were just basic brochures, and others, like the San Francisco Giants' site, were very advanced. The owners felt it was advisable economically to get everybody on the same page."

Wagner told the E-Commerce Times that because specific phrases yield a higher number of conversions than more general keyword phrases, 24/7 Website Results focuses on getting as specific as possible. "It is labor intensive. Where we might ordinarily create 2,000 to 3,000 gene...

"They're 'transportable' as opposed to fully mobile," Aberdeen Group analyst Peter Kastner told the E-Commerce Times. "These are hybrid machines. They are building on the business trend of taking your computer with you as you go from meeting to meeting, as many white-collar nomads do."

Forrester analyst Henry Harteveldt told the E-Commerce Times that providing technology solutions to customers is the ticket to driving overall travel sector recovery, which in turn requires more corporate business "Technology is what will get the travel sector going again," Ha...

It's a sign of the times. In the afterglow of eBay's PayPal acquisition announcement, although the deal has few detractors, questions are being raised. ...

But despite such gloomy announcements, Aberdeen Group analyst Jim Hurley told the E-Commerce Times that he believes VeriSign can manage all of its newfound business lines. "VeriSign is not delivering all of these new services," Hurley said. "Many are being delivered through business partners, which are critical to VeriSign's success."

"There are companies that have built their brands on authorizing credit card payments," Forrester analyst Laura Koetzle told the E-Commerce Times. "I am having trouble buying Microsoft's play as an infomediary here. This is very much the domain of the Visas and MasterCards --...