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Fingerhut's online operations are silent. The catalog company's site, which withered away slowly and painfully before finally dying, now features a farewell and good luck message instead of selling products ...

"Sun weeded out all the old stuff that would cause the company inventory headaches," Howe told the E-Commerce Times. "Now, they don't have much inventory." This year, Sun has introduced a product line with new chip technology. The company's production strategy also has shifted...

Grossman, the lead attorney on the case, told the E-Commerce Times that it has long been known that preferred clients of underwriters stand to profit handsomely from IPOs "What's not been known is that underwriters were receiving a kickback," he said.

"We read most about Linux in the open source world," Yankee Group senior analyst Rob Perry told the E-Commerce Times. "[And] the Apache HTTP server is a very widely used Web server." Perry noted that Apache is embedded in many application servers, including a large number of c...

Buchwalter told the E-Commerce Times that rich media ads are gaining ground on static banner ads, with large, traditional advertisers leading the pack. That is occurring because traditional advertisers understand the formula behind emotional, brand-building TV ads, according ...

"As they say in the Highlander movies, there can be only one," Rob Rosenthal, senior analyst at IDC, told the E-Commerce Times. "This is a business model that rewards being the biggest, and it doesn't make sense to have more than one or two doing the same thing." ...

"We are on schedule with our restructuring, and we are overachieving on the goals we set out in that plan," Chappell told the E-Commerce Times In April, Lucent chief financial officer Frank D'Amelio announced that the company had met its goal of cutting operating expenses by $...

"I think [Netflix is] not nearly as promising as PayPal but should still find plenty of buyers," Morningstar.com IPO analyst George Nichols told the E-Commerce Times. Netflix "enjoys explosive revenue growth and is displaying good cost control," he added. ...

"Our clients are telling us that they are married to predictable budget forecasting this year," Case told the E-Commerce Times. "They are locked into their budgets, and solutions that aren't in the budget have little hope [of being purchased] this year." ...

In the future, we all will spend our days at our computer terminals, playing video games over the Internet against people we've never met ...

What the two companies have succeeded in doing, Forrester Research analystCarl Howe told the E-Commerce Times, is putting "buyers in the driver's seat.This is great for buyers, who stand to benefit from the lower prices andbetter deals offered when two competitive giants [go] head to head."

The reforms should help increase investor confidence in analysts, who many feel had become too powerful and who often were working for their own gain rather than for investors' benefit, Dartmouth College professor Kent Womack told the E-Commerce Times. "Separation is definite...

"Over the past year, more than 50 percent of MSN's new subscribers have switched from AOLbecause they were tired of the over-simplified, over-commercialized and low-qualityexperience they were receiving from AOL," MSN product manager Lisa Gurry told theE-Commerce Times ...

"The ill will generated with the customer is going to take a long time to dissipate," Julie Gira, vice president and research fellow at Giga Information Group, told the E-Commerce Times Since Microsoft announced its intentions about a year ago, its "Software Assurance" program...

Mike Godwin of the Center for Democracy and Technology told the E-Commerce Times that efforts to promote innovation should not be suppressed. But high royalty rates could do just that "I don't think anybody wants music companies to give stuff away for free, but they would like...

"This is an awfully fast IPO filing," Morningstar.com analyst David Kathman told the E-Commerce Times. "That's comparable to the speed with which Priceline had its IPO in 1999, but obviously the financial environment was very different then. "Orbitz may be trying to strike wh...

"Juniper paid $380 million in cash for a company that, according to Siemens' books, is already generating about $200 million a year in revenues," Gartner Dataquest analyst Lawrence Orans told the E-Commerce Times. "There is a superior payback period there." Unisphere also will...

Now, with the merger moving quickly toward a mid-June closing, it is not yet clear how Lands' End's online strategy will fit into the Sears corporate picture, Lands' End spokesperson Emily C. Leuthner told the E-Commerce Times. "Sears certainly considered all the different be...

"Good companies are flexible enough to try something and [then] pull back if it doesn't work the way they had hoped or if it causes problems," Morningstar.com analyst David Kathman told the E-Commerce Times. "That's really the best way to figure out what will and won't work." ...

"It could make online gaming a standard part of using console gaming,"Jupiter Media Metrix research directorMichael Gartenberg told the E-Commerce Times. "This is going to be really significant." ...