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John Oliver Explains ‘Net Neutrality’ With a Few Choice Words

However, the dynamic for the Internet so far has been best effort, Mike Jude, Stratecast program manager at Frost & Sullivan, told the E-Commerce Times "If the network is overloaded, you suffer with everybody else. If you're trying to guarantee a quality of experience over a l...

Hachette Banished to Amazon’s Woodshed

"This is a classic Walmart story," Kathryn Winsted, associate professor of marketing at the Lubin School of Business at Pace University, told the E-Commerce Times "Walmart demands incredibly low margins from manufacturers. They practically want you to sell at cost. Everybody d...

Amazon Plans to Stream Music to Prime Members’ Ears

"The idea to limit access to the latest catalog is interesting, since it's this catalog that is among the most popular streamed through services like Spotify," he told the E-Commerce Times. Expanding the Ecosystem...

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Patent Troll Reforms Crash and Burn

Stakeholder sources tuned in to the process told the E-Commerce Times they were made aware of the bill's status both the night before and morning of the markup session. "We were told we had a deal," one said. However, before noon on the day of the scheduled markup, the bill was dead.

Google Sadly Owns Up to White Maleness

"We're not where we want to be when it comes to diversity," Laszlo Bock, senior vice president for people operations, told the E-Commerce Times. "It is hard to address these kinds of challenges if you're not prepared to discuss them openly, and with the facts," he remarked....

Wheels Greased for Summer Yahoo-Tube Debut

While these numbers may pique the interest of producers, Yahoo will be hard-pressed to trump Google's ownership of this market, Lance Strate, professor of communications and media studies at Fordham University, told the E-Commerce Times. "The name YouTube is practically syno...

Zappos Gives Old-School Job Recruitment the Boot

"The big issue is going to be the time requirement," Cappelli told the E-Commerce Times. "My guess is that Zappos will have thousands of inquiries. Some of them will be from people who are very needy and want to keep checking in. If the recruiters don't have time to do that, will the regular employees? How are they going to get their work done?" ...

Twitter Poised for Growth Spurt in Asia

"The U.S. remains Twitter's largest market by a wide margin, well ahead of the second-biggest market, Japan," Debra Aho Williamson, a principal analyst at eMarketer, told the E-Commerce Times. "The appeal of Twitter is strong, but the company has not done a great job of helpi...

HP’s Whitman Pulls Out the Chain Saw

"In addition, shares for Hewlett Packard are down 2.3 percent," he told the E-Commerce Times. "Overall, these indicators speak volumes." Painful, but Necessary ...

Facebook Wants to Eavesdrop on Your Entertainment

"This is not about customer engagement and doing something to please Facebook users," he told the E-Commerce Times. "It's about trying to make even greater profit for Facebook. This feature indeed has a social element, but the primary value is that Facebook can sell this information to advertisers and other clients." ...

Pinterest Tacks On New Marketing Tool

"This is part of Pinterest's efforts to turn the hobby site into a revenue generating machine," he told the E-Commerce Times."The site so far is used by mostly women and is very addictive. They will come up with ways to monetize this." Killing It With Data?...

eBay’s In With the Breached Crowd

"Fortunately, the eBay account passwords were encrypted, so it will be more difficult for attackers to retrieve the plaintext passwords and use them to impersonate people," Craig Young, security researcher for Tripwire, told the E-Commerce Times. Urging users to change their ...

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Network Upgrades Key to Federal IT Agenda

"These agencies need to upgrade network performance not only to meet current requirements but also for future IT demands. The number of federal employees may remain relatively static, but the number of devices they use is proliferating rapidly with laptops, tablets and phones," Robbins told the E-Commerce Times.

AT&T Gambles on DirecTV

"The deal marginally augments the value of the consumer wireline business," he told the E-Commerce Times. "However, this business is in decent shape today and accounts for just 15 percent of AT&T's value. The business most at risk is wireless, and this deal does little if anything for wireless."

AT&T Gambles on DirecTV

"The deal marginally augments the value of the consumer wireline business," he told the E-Commerce Times. "However, this business is in decent shape today and accounts for just 15 percent of AT&T's value. The business most at risk is wireless, and this deal does little if anything for wireless."

Will Samsung and Apple Lay Down Their Swords?

"I have heard those rumors before," Peter Toren, partner with Weisbrod Matteis & Copley, told the E-Commerce Times. "I have read about them in the papers before." In fact, Judge Lucy Koh of the U.S. District Court for the Northern District of California on two occasions order...

On Pins and Needles Over Pinterest

Pinterest is responsible for 23 percent of e-commerce Web traffic referred by social media sites, he told the E-Commerce Times. "Another related attribute of Pinterest is that roughly 80 percent of its users are women -- and by some measures, one-third of all women in the U.S. have used Pinterest at least once. This high gender skew makes Pinterest more easily addressable by advertisers."

Can Ivy Ross Make Google Glass Haute Couture?

Google Glass "straddles the line between technology and fashion," Barry Randall, a portfolio manager for Covestor, told the E-Commerce Times. "Ms. Ross is probably one of a handful of individuals capable of understanding Glass from both a design and product point of view." Th...

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Vendors Quibble With US Procurement Cybersecurity Plan

"We agree with the goal of the program, but we think the proposed implementation plan is not properly focused," Trey Hodgkins, senior vice president for the public sector at the Information Technology Industry Council, told the E-Commerce Times "Risk assessment made during a p...

FCC OKs Controversial Net Rules, Screaming Period Begins

"Title II comes with an awful lot of other regulatory baggage that doesn't make a lot of sense," he told the E-Commerce Times National Cable & Telecommunications Association President and CEO Michael Powell vowed "unwavering opposition to any proposals that attempt to reclassi...

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