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Facebook Tweaks Trending Topics Out of Abundance of Caution

"Facebook wanted to show that it was open to dialogue with critics and will re-examine business practices," he told the E-Commerce Times Thune was not seeking to provide any legislative solution to the problem, just more transparency into the process, he said, praising the com...

Microsoft Drastically Scales Down Smartphone Biz

"What this is, is an acknowledgment that the overall Windows mobile hardware business has been failing," Ian Fogg, head of mobile analysis at IHS Technology, told the E-Commerce Times. The move comes just a week after Microsoft announced the sale of its flagging feature phone...

Oculus Riles Users Over Piracy Block That Fails Anyway

"Users should expect that hacked games won't work indefinitely, as regular software updates to games, apps and our platform are likely to break hacked software," he told the E-Commerce Times The blowback may prove to be not only a technical defeat for Oculus but also a trust b...

Yahoo Bids Could Seriously Underwhelm

"Yahoo wants to maximize the shareholder value by spinning off profitable pieces that could presumably stand on their own and continue to generate shareholder returns, but the more of these pieces it excludes from the core, the less the core is worth to bidders," he told the E-Commerce Times...

New SF Store Showcases Apple’s Trademark Creativity

"This is somewhat similar to what Sony did a few years back with their stores," he told the E-Commerce Times. "The goal is to build deeper relationships." Apple Stores were created by Ron Johnson, "but no one at Apple seems to understand what Johnson did and they have been slo...

Microsoft Tightens Screws on Terrorists Posting Online

"What's noteworthy about Microsoft and what you're seeing from the other social media giants is that not only are there efforts to remove content or limit access to content, but also ... opportunities for counter content," he told the E-Commerce Times. "That's also a very important aspect of this as well."

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Vendors Gain Congressional Support on IT Pricing

"While LPTA can be a tool for economizing, it may actually introduce additional costs down the road if the quality of the work is subpar," Deniece Peterson, director of federal industry analysis atDeltek, told the E-Commerce Times Between 2009 and 2014, an average of 20 percen...

Hacker Hawks 2-Year-Old Cache of 117M LinkedIn User IDs

That would give hackers and their buyers login credentials for "many millions of enterprise employees," he told the E-Commerce Times Caught Flat-Footed?...

Google Challenges Right to Be Forgotten in French High Court

"If every country demanded the same, it would transform what you see on the Worldwide Web into the sorry remains, after every country's censorship policies had been subtracted," he told the E-Commerce Times "It feels like Google has it about right: The EU can police and regula...

Nokia Stages Smartphone Comeback

"After selling their failing handset business to Microsoft several years ago, Nokia has been trying to re-enter the marketplace," he told the E-Commerce Times. "Unfortunately, to date, they haven't really created any growth waves yet." Nokia has been stuck in a noncompete situ...

China Subjects Tech Imports to Heavy Security Scrutiny

"The Chinese are attempting to level the playing field or at least plant the seed that, if the U.S. continues to subject Chinese commercial products to harsh review and regulatory requirements under the pretense of national security," they will retaliate, he told the E-Commerce Times...

Tweets May Soon Breeze Past 140-Character Limit

The company is still having difficulty attracting new users and increasing the utility for existing members, he told the E-Commerce Times By not counting photos and links, Twitter will make it less cumbersome for users to post photos with their tweets, said Rob Enderle, princi...

Zuckerberg Aims to Smooth Conservatives’ Ruffled Feathers

Still, "right or wrong, the Gizmodo expose highlighted that human judgment goes into the trending recommendations," he told the E-Commerce Times, "and that's also true -- in my view -- if the humans are simply writing the rules for the algorithm." ...

Microsoft, SAP Deepen Partnership to Blend Cloud Offerings

"The new SAP/Microsoft agreement enables Microsoft to expose more large and mid-sized enterprises to its Azure SaaS and PaaS capabilities, while SAP is able to promote its enterprise application capabilities," ThinkStrategies Managing Director Jeff Kaplan told the E-Commerce Times.

AT&T Snags Quickplay for DirecTV Expansion

Average revenue per user is declining across the pay-television industry as the subscription video-on-demand model increases in market share and becomes the industry standard, he told the E-Commerce Times Netflix had a monthly average revenue per user of US$8.02 in 2015, compa...

AT&T Snags Quickplay for DirecTV Expansion

Average revenue per user is declining across the pay-television industry as the subscription video-on-demand model increases in market share and becomes the industry standard, he told the E-Commerce Times Netflix had a monthly average revenue per user of US$8.02 in 2015, compa...

AT&T Snags Quickplay for DirecTV Expansion

Average revenue per user is declining across the pay-television industry as the subscription video-on-demand model increases in market share and becomes the industry standard, he told the E-Commerce Times Netflix had a monthly average revenue per user of US$8.02 in 2015, compa...

Privacy Concerns Curb Online Commerce, Communication

That said, "one large breach might scare a massive number of people off the Web if it's damaging enough," he told the E-Commerce Times How Big Is Big Enough?...

Apple Invests $1B in Chinese Uber Competitor Didi Chuxing

"Everyone's trying to learn their lessons right now, trying things out, seeing what works," Jeremy Carlson, senior analyst for autonomous driving at IHS, told the E-Commerce Times "But more importantly, I feel Apple made this investment to also expand their opportunities into ...

Charter-TWC Merger Clears Final Regulatory Hurdle

The office was concerned that the large concentration of market power, plus the large amount of debt in the deal, would place a burden on consumers in the form of higher prices and other service issues, she told the E-Commerce Times As part of the approval, "we wanted to make ...

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