Henry Harteveldt, Forrester's online travel analyst, points out that even wealthy long-haul travellers are just as tantalised by low prices and many use the internet to research and plan their journeys, even though they may end up booking offline.
"The current business model, selling low-margin goods and delivering them for free, is not viable for the long term, " says Rebecca Nidositko, senior analyst for online retail strategies at Yankee Group.
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The data is provided by marketpsychdata, who track individual emotional sentiments (rather than just buzz) in a stock, across thousands of online publications (news, analyst reports, blogs).
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"This is the third significant military campaign, after Desert Storm and Kosovo, in which air power has been the decisive element and where casualties have been negligible, " John Pike, the chief analyst at the online security newsletter GlobalSecurity.com, said.
Within 24 hours of going online, Cambrice, a financial analyst at Delta Air Lines Inc.
Analyst Keith Benjamin figures online mall CUC NetMarket's model -- where customers pay an up-front fee to receive bigger discounts on all subsequent book purchases -- might prove more profitable.
With the proposed Motorola acquisition, Google risks straining its relationships with other smartphone makers who rely on Android, wrote Charles Golvin, a Forrester Research consumer product analyst, in an online report.
CNN: Motorola deal boosts Google's move into home automation
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"This was a very online Christmas, " Rahul Sharma, retail analyst at Neev Capital, told the BBC.
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"You can't give it away on the streets and then start charging for it online, " said Lorna Tilbian, media analyst at Numis Securities.
Google (GOOG) should be a beneficiary of what appears to have been a strong holiday shopping season for online retailers, according to Kaufman Bros. analyst Mayuresh Masurekar.
FORBES: Google Benefits From Jump In Holiday E-Tail Sales, Analyst Says
Avivah Litan, an analyst with GartnerGroup, a consultancy, says online businesses encounter credit-card fraud 12 times more often than offline merchants.
Amazon.com shares are coming under pressure Thursday morning after Morgan Stanley analyst Scott Devitt cut his rating on the online retailing giant to Equal Weight from Overweight.
FORBES: Amazon: Morgan Stanley Cuts To Equal Weight; Shares Fall
"Intel has had to come to terms with the reality that the RDRAM technology has not come online fast enough, " says Kevin Krewell, an analyst at MicroDesign Resources, a chip industry research firm in Sebastopol, Calif.
The initial wave of negative reviews with online issues that have plagued many gamers notwithstanding, Wedbush Morgan Securities game analyst Michael Pachter believes the long-term potential for Diablo III remains strong.
The analyst notes that in 2010, 45 of the top 50 online retailers offered some type of special between Thanksgiving and Cyber Monday, most of which were some type of shipping promotion.
FORBES: Holiday E-Shopping To Grow 15% In 2011, Forrester Says
"Because Microsoft is so behind in monetization in online business, they've gotta try tricks that few have tried, " said Citigroup analyst Brent Thill.
Costco Wholesale (COST) this morning reported that same store sales increased by 7 percent in December, missing analyst forecasts of 7.6 percent, largely a result of a drop in online sales.
Andrew Frank, a media analyst with Gartner Research, is skeptical about advertisers' ability to grab the attention of an online video audience.
The new rules shouldn't cause chaos in the online kids' market because most major children's sites already work to protect privacy, said an analyst at Jupiter Communications LLC in New York.
CNN: Web firms say they're ready for FTC child-privacy rules
For a project we had in the apparel sector, I assigned the project team to include a computer scientist, a financial analyst and a poet whose last projects had been, respectively, in consumer electronics, chemicals and online games.
Aram Sinnreich, a media industry analyst with Radar Research, argues that BitTorrent's technology is more of an incremental step towards profitable online television.
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