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"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 ...

"I think this is the same calculation Apple did when they begrudgingly decided to offer a music subscription service. They are simply protecting their franchise as heavy listeners, readers and movie watchers shift from owning to subscribing. There are a few differentiating points for book retailers today, and subscriptions, however unprofitable they might be, was one of those. Not anymore," Wogahn told the E-Commerce Times...

"While online sales theoretically create a level playing field where all can compete, it has resulted in massive, industry-wide consolidations that have largely benefited a well-heeled few while gutting traditional industry players," Charles King, principal analyst at Pund-IT, told the E-Commerce Times...

Microsoft's time span may be shorter than Nadella's statement indicated. The 18,000 cuts "will be done by the end of the year, with 13,000 announced today," Maria Newman of Microsoft's PR agency, Waggener-Edstrom, told the E-Commerce Times Nadella also is undertaking a sweepin...

"There the difference ends. The equipment performing the transmission is in the customer's home, completely dedicated to that customer. The customer simply directs the DVR to tune a channel and the sling functionality transmits it to them, wherever they may be," he told the E-Commerce Times...

The alliance "provides a complete solution for the enterprise," Howe told the E-Commerce Times. Why Not Android?...

"Microsoft's structure needs to be more agile," Krishna told the E-Commerce Times. "The focus should be more on cutting-edge technologies delivered in a timely fashion, and Nadella's trying to structure the company so it can deliver effectively on his vision." What Nadella Wa...

"Consumers should be able to access whatever websites they want without worrying that things are being degraded by a service provider," Internet Association President and CEO Michael Beckerman told the E-Commerce Times Unless the FCC acts to preserve Net neutrality, the associ...

"Current FAA rules allow hobbyists and manufacturers of model aircraft wide latitude in flying their sUAS [small unmanned aircraft systems] outdoors," Mary Osako, a spokesperson for Amazon, told the E-Commerce Times. "Because Amazon is a commercial enterprise, we have been limited to conducting R&D flights indoors or in other countries."

"We have not yet completed a detailed review of the DHMSM draft RFP. Our February 2014 report on the integrated electronic health record program recommended, among other things, that DoD and VA produce a single, shared plan that would describe the interoperable electronic health record the departments have committed to develop," Valerie Melvin, director for information management and technology resources at GAO, told the E-Commerce Times.

"When the broadcasters won as they did, I thought it was a pyrrhic victory, because in the background was this 1976 law, which says that if you're a cable company and you want to distribute local content, that there was a compulsory license that would be exacted on you but which would allow to you carry the local channels," he told the E-Commerce Times. ...

"The complaint filed today notes that Amazon was aware that there were problems with their in-app charges, through a high number of consumer complaints, media reporting about the issue, and even internal emails that indicate employees referred to the issue as 'house on fire,'" FTC spokesperson Jay Mayfield told the E-Commerce Times...

"Nadella's change from a 'devices and services' to 'mobile and cloud productivity and platform company' is smart. It focuses them on productivity versus entertainment, and it doesn't limit them to just services," he told the E-Commerce Times "Apple and Google are primarily abo...

"It seems to me that the subtext of what Amazon is doing here is demonstrating to Hachette how easily they could be disintermediated and how extraordinary the upside for authors could be if that were to happen," Stephens told the E-Commerce Times. "It's exposing Hachette and ...

"Apple will simply settle with this company and pay them royalties," he told the E-Commerce Times. The question will only be how much, given Siri's cash cow status at Apple. No doubt Apple had been hoping to win the case for several reasons. Chief among them, though, was that...

Page's suggestion does not make sense at this point in the economic cycle, John A. Challenger, CEO of Challenger, Gray & Christmas, told the E-Commerce Times Conditions "have improved significantly over the last two to three years," and as the economy continues to expand and ...

"Hard to see this as a good thing," Keller told the E-Commerce Times. "The name is developing a strong association to all that is bad with that militant group. Any investments in brand-building will have to be redirected to a new name. [There] may be a little bit of a silver lining in terms of some momentary attention, but nothing sustained and not likely to substitute for past efforts." ...

"First we had concerns about privacy, now we have concerns about censorship," Jim McGregor, principal analyst at Tirias Research, told the E-Commerce Times "While I do believe that Google thinks the legislation is foolish, I do not believe its actions are intended to play game...

"In Japan, for instance, there's double-digit growth because of XP replacements, for both consumers and business," she told the E-Commerce Times The situation also varies by device. The traditional desk-based and notebook PC market, consisting of relatively heavy machines with...

"Google will lose out on quite a bit of ad revenue," telecom expert Jeff Kagan told the E-Commerce Times. "On the other hand, it will also attract new ad revenue because of this move. Apparently Google thinks the new ad revenue will be greater than what they will lose. Also, ...