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"Instead, companies are essentially early investors in emerging markets they hope will someday become financially self-sustaining and profitable. Facebook is certainly not alone here -- the other founding partners of Internet.org include wireless silicon and handset makers and Opera," he told the E-Commerce Times...

"It is close, but image recognition still has advancements that need to happen before consumers will use it as readily as they do a mobile camera," James Brehm of James Brehm & Associates told the E-Commerce Times In a recent demo, an image-recognition application managed to i...

Clearly Twitter is engaged in a battle for mindshare with Facebook and traditional media sources, Barry Randall, Technology portfolio manager on Covestor, told the E-Commerce Times. However, that doesn't mean the two networks can't co-exist, he said.

"At Symantec we take compliance rules seriously and believe we followed all GSA Schedule and state contract program rules. We have fully cooperated with the government throughout its investigation, which Symantec was alerted to and first publicly disclosed in June 2012," Symantec said in a statement provided to the E-Commerce Times by communications manager Noah Edwardsen.

"BlackBerry is changing," telecom industry analyst Jeff Kagan told the E-Commerce Times. "They are now focused on the business customer and government customer marketplace." In those areas, privacy and security are top concerns, he noted, "so this kind of move makes sense from...

Microsoft uses verification codes to prevent illegal copying of its software, and using such codes is not anticompetitive, Rob Enderle, principal analyst at the Enderle Group, told the E-Commerce Times Microsoft intends to address any concerns the Chinese government has, Angi...

"What Apple is buying is probably not what's in the app right now, but these algorithms that they feel can be scaled up to work with a very large audience to deliver highly tailored programming alternatives," Gartner Research Vice President Mike McGuire told the E-Commerce Times...

"We aim to build products that deliver the features, security and reliability customers expect, and we will address any concerns the [Chinese] government may have," Jessie Wong, of Microsoft's PR agency Waggener-Edstrom, told the E-Commerce Times, echoing the company's stock statement in response to this issue...

Yahoo reportedly paid between $200 million and $300 million for Flurry, although figures as high as $1 billion were being bandied about, but "we are not disclosing deal terms," Yahoo spokesperson Lauren Armstrong told the E-Commerce Times What's a Flurry?...

"The growth that it has been experiencing has been considerable, to the point where it does not look dissimilar to the growth YouTube was experiencing when Google bought it," he told the E-Commerce Times. YouTube has a certain quantity of live video-game streaming, but it doe...

"For all intents and purposes," Sizemore told the E-Commerce Times, "Bezos invented e-commerce as we know it." Investors realize this, Sizemore said, but they nevertheless are getting tired of Amazon's string of losses.

"Consumers keep their tablets between three and four years," Jean Philippe Bouchard, a research director at IDC, told the E-Commerce Times Another factor is relatively low enterprise demand for tablets.

"At first glance, this strategy is a natural attempt to leverage Sprint's business-centric services and solutions with the native integration of Google Apps in Android phones and tablets," Charles King, a principal analyst with Pund-IT, told the E-Commerce Times "That point ha...

"The ability of Facebook to move into the mobile ad space and to monetize it successfully was heavily questioned last year," Andreas Scherer, managing partner at Salto Partners, told the E-Commerce Times "The company answered in the best possible way -- by simply beating marke...

"It's likely to lead to a much more comprehensive set of safeguards for children, because of the more robust data protection and privacy framework they have in the EU," he told the E-Commerce Times "It also sends a signal -- as the FTC did -- that regulators are closely watchi...

"I think it's likely that Apple was not able to get adequate production for the Sapphire screen, and that it will be directed at the iWatch now, and brought onto the iPhone later," Gottheil told the E-Commerce Times "The lack of screen size on the iPhone 5s has stuck out for f...

"This is an important opportunity for the MHS Health System, and we've been planning for more than a year to support it. With the increased scrutiny on IT projects in government, we think planning, testing and validating, like we've undertaken for DHMSM, is an important example of how vendors can be part of the solution," Andy Maner, managing partner of IBM U.S. Federal, told the E-Commerce Times.

"This is basically Secret's endeavor to grow its user base by providing an additional convenience for users," he told the E-Commerce Times. "At first glance, it seems counterintuitive to me. The foundation of Secret is based on preserving anonymity. A potential integration wi...

"While the Internet remains highly popular among those living in urban areas, usage is not penetrating rural regions where people are poorer and less educated," Charles King, principal at Pund-IT, told the E-Commerce Times. "Unless China's government develops a workable stra...

"In other words, there is no down side for Facebook. However, I think there are concerns for consumers, because this could result in even greater use of browsing data for more personalized advertising," he told the E-Commerce Times. Facebook built the Buy button with privacy ...