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Nintendo’s Q1 Reflects Struggles Unrelated to Pokemon Go Success

Many investors just heard the word "Pokemon" and assumed the lion's share of the work and the profits would go to Nintendo, without doing enough due diligence, he told the E-Commerce Times. Nintendo's cautionary announcement likely was a preemptive effort to defuse the hype a...

KickassTorrents Owner Faces 20-Plus Years in Stir

"If you're stealing movies while they're still in the theater, you're really hitting the studios where it really hurts," she told the E-Commerce Times Apple, Facebook Cooperate...

Amazon Sidles Into Student Loans

"College costs continue to increase," he told the E-Commerce Times. "This is an opportunity to help save students money." College tuition and fees, calculated in 2015 dollars, more than tripled between the 1975-76 and 2015-16 school years, according to the College Board....

Yahoo Deal Could Put Verizon in Google and Facebook’s League

"The longer answer is that Yahoo is already the third-biggest Internet site, with more than 600 million mobile users," he told the E-Commerce Times. "Verizon now has AOL and Yahoo, with the search and display business, so it does make it a rival for Facebook and even Google. However, Yahoo was already a partner with Google in search, just as Microsoft was a partner with AOL."

Verizon on Verge of $5B Deal for Yahoo Core Assets

"In order to maintain the integrity of the process, we're not commenting until we announced a final agreement," Yahoo spokesperson Rebecca Neufeld told the E-Commerce Times. Shareholder Pressure...

Musk Plots Out Tesla’s Next 10 Years

"The transformational shift is seen through the ongoing autonomous testing and electrification, and the rise of mobility service providers and last-mile logistics service providers," he told the E-Commerce Times "Elon is reinforcing the importance of Tesla's innovation to lead...

Facebook Messenger Counter Rolls Over to 1 Billion

"We are in an era when mobile messaging platforms have become places of digital user congregation," he told the E-Commerce Times The Messenger user base has become more important in part due to the emergence of bots, as Facebook now has the chance to insert itself into the mob...

Netflix Shares Fall as Subscriber Growth Hits a Wall

Also, its ability to deliver on some key content categories is still limited, compared to traditional cable and other streaming services, he told the E-Commerce Times "Without fully replicating the content diversity of the large pay-TV incumbents -- namely, the glaring absence...

Google Transparency Report Shows Government Data Demands Rising

Western governments file the most requests for user data because "currently, it's Western countries that are experiencing most of the high-profile attacks, and they have the least restrictions on Internet use. In other parts of the world where violence is common, Internet connectivity isn't," Enderle told the E-Commerce Times...

Uber by the Billions

"We stopped uberPOP last summer and we are disappointed by this judgment," an Uber spokesperson said in a statement provided to the E-Commerce Times by company rep Manon Guignard. "The European Commission has just published guidelines that support such services." Heetch, a ri...

Yahoo Posts Weak Earnings as Assets Sale Waiting Game Drags On

Yahoo still has a number of companies interested in acquiring its core business, but those companies now face the prospect of having to prevent the firm from going into a financial freefall before a takeover is complete, he told the E-Commerce Times. "Make no mistake, it can ...

Softbank Strong-ARMs Its Way Into Internet of Things

"By buying ARM, Softbank has a piece of the growth segments in the semiconductor business -- IoT, smartphones, automotive and servers -- because ARM's IP is licensed by every major company in these markets," he told the E-Commerce Times Softbank may see the ARM acquisition as ...

Valve to Close the Spigot on Gambling Operations

"The fact is, though there is no official cashout system for CS:GO skins that have been won on these betting sites, there are workarounds which allow users to convert skins into cash using the Steam platform and other items from the game," he told the E-Commerce Times The rece...

Congressional Committee Report Finds Something Rotten at FDIC

"Every U.S. company and every U.S. citizen is at risk if the FDIC fails. I don't think there's any possibility of overstating how bad this is," he told the E-Commerce Times FDIC Breaches...

EU Ratchets Up Charges in Google Antitrust Probe

The charges involving AdSense cover an area that the Commission already was aware of when it opened the investigation in November 2010, the official told the E-Commerce Times. Dominant Position...

Microsoft Wins Legal Victory in Fight Over Email Stored Abroad

"The court recognized the vital privacy protections under the SCA, and correctly ruled that the government can't use a U.S. search warrant to force Internet service providers to reach email stored outside the U.S.," he told the E-Commerce Times. The ruling "is undoubtedly a m...

Consumer Reports Urges Tesla to Pull Plug on Autopilot

"Tesla is constantly introducing enhancements proven over millions of miles of internal testing to ensure that drivers supported by Autopilot remain safer than those operating without assistance," a Tesla spokesperson said in a statement provided to the E-Commerce Times by company rep Keely Sulprizio.

GOVERNMENT IT REPORT

Changes in Federal IT Spending Require Nimble Contracting

"As a percent of the IT budget, the cybersegment is growing as threats have grown -- and that is crowding out the ability of agencies to use [funds] for other investments," he told the E-Commerce Times. That could constrain acquisitions of innovative IT capabilities....

Music Industry Boos Google’s Antipiracy Performance

"Thanks to advertising, YouTube has transformed the promotional cost of the music video into a new source of revenue that has generated $3 billion for the music industry, and that revenue is growing rapidly," a YouTube spokesperson said in a statement provided to the E-Commerce Times by company rep Stephanie Shih...

Microsoft Unveils Enterprise Windows 10, Surface Pay-as-You-Go Plans

While Windows 10 Enterprise Edition in CSP sounds interesting, "there are important details in the terms and conditions that will need to be considered," he told the E-Commerce Times. The Windows 10 Enterprise E3 in CSP program "is basically for smaller firms who don't have P...

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