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"It's very hard to value these stocks because so much of their value depends on future growth, which is very hard to predict," Morningstar.com analyst David Kathman told the E-Commerce Times. ...

"It's another nail in the coffin as far as investor confidence is concerned," Ken McGee, Gartner group vice president and research fellow, told the E-Commerce Times, "which is why I don't believe that the company will recover from where it is now -- and where is it now? "Its ...

"Web services is the expected next big thing," Joseph Feiman, vice president andresearch director at Gartner, told theE-Commerce Times. And with good reason Web services can save the enterprise considerable dollars and can make operations moreefficient. According to Gartner, f...

"We've seen shifts in the travel space where more people go to airline sites directly as well," Strand told the E-Commerce Times. "As consumers become more comfortable on the Web, they're going to where they think the best deals are going to be." ...

"Yahoo! would like to be seen as a more credible player in the online auction space that eBay has been dominating," Bartels told the E-Commerce Times. It is difficult for any company to rival eBay, analysts said, but the online auction games -- in which several big players li...

"Microsoft has moved away from the 'we will maintain it' mentality," Yankee Group analyst Rob Perry told the E-Commerce Times ...

Yankee Group analyst Margo DeBoer told the E-Commerce Times that the consumer market is hungry for digital imaging products. She said she expects HP's investment will drive widespread adoption of the new technology "HP has the most robust printer technology at the moment," sai...

Buy.com chief operating officer Brent Rusick told the E-Commerce Times that themove reflects the fact that Amazon has 25 million customers andBuy.com about 5 million "We think our business model offers efficiencies that we can pass along toshoppers in the form of lower prices ...

"Amazon has a reasonably sound CRM strategy," Gartner senior analyst Debashish Sinha told the E-Commerce Times. Companies that have cast their fates with the e-tail giant "have found the experience adequate," Sinha said. "Amazon is doing fairly well."

For example, Aberdeen Group chief research officer Peter Kastner told the E-Commerce Times that consumers' time and dollars have become invested in technologies like high-speed broadband Internet, which makes TV unnecessary for services like interactive shopping In addition, K...

Matthew Davis, director of broadband access technologies at the Yankee Group, told the E-Commerce Times that his group has found broadband adoption to be fairly steady since widespread deployment has occurred "I know there was some talk at the beginning of this year and the en...

"It's an interesting gesture," Morningstar analyst David Kathman told the E-Commerce Times. "They can certainly afford to do something like this, and if it goes over well, they might decide to extend other benefits to power sellers." EBay is deriving an increasing amount of r...

"The presence of Hotwire and Orbitz is a significant step in the evolution of the travel space because it has put more pressure on Priceline," Nielsen//NetRatings senior analyst Jarvis Mak told the E-Commerce Times in an earlier interview. "Competition is forcing Priceline to meet the challenge and provide a fixed price."

In fact, it is easy to avoid Microsoft altogether, Andrew Bartels, an analyst with Giga Information Group, told the E-Commerce Times. "Most companies are getting their solutions from someone other than Microsoft, such as IBM, BEA, BroadVision, Oracle, PeopleSoft or SAP," he e...

"What eBay has done is to bring together buyers and sellers in a greatly concentrated marketplace, which is very unique at the moment," Giga Information Group research director Ron Rogowski told the E-Commerce Times ...

"Credit card processing has been an issue in the past with PayPal," Morningstar.com analyst George Nichols told the E-Commerce Times. "By its nature, PayPal has complicated working relationships to maintain." ...

"I don't believe the states will get Windows chopped up the way they have suggested," Peter Kastner, chief research officer at the Aberdeen Group, told the E-Commerce Times. "But I do believe the judge will [do more than] simply reaffirm the agreement the Justice Department a...

"I think it is possible, but I'm not sure it's the most effective way to build a brand," David Rosenblatt, president of online marketing firm DoubleClick, told the E-Commerce Times "The fundamental idea of any kind of marketing is to meet the consumer where he or she is. And a...

The search is over. The ultimate symbol for the meteoric rise, painful fall and slow, strange resurrection of the dot-com empire has been found. ...

While IDC research analyst Alan Promisel said that Intel's first quarter numbers did not represent a rebound, he did tell the E-Commerce Times that it was "a barometer for some growth." ...