“The majority of AOL's profits are derived from its pure advertising and commerce revenue, so strong sequential growth in this line is critical to the long-term growth story.”
Henry Blodget
“There continue to be three major growth drivers in the consumer sector: traffic, advertising, and commerce. Traffic growth in the U.S. continues to slow, as more than 50 percent of the total market is already online. More importantly, we estimate that more than 80 percent of disposable income is already online.”
“A U.S. growth rate which lags the broader e-commerce market is indicative of market share losses. The company's traffic share may continue to come under pressure.”
Imran Khan
“E-commerce will be a central factor in future productivity growth and maintaining low inflation. E-commerce provides cost-effective, time-efficient means of transacting business and distributing goods, thereby lowering expenses and constraining inflation.”
Jerry Jasinowski
“Legislation could have a dampening effect on the growth and expansion and the vitality of e-commerce, ... Our society functions on the free flow of information. If we have to have everybody's approval on everything, things would come to a grinding halt.”
Orson Swindle
“In assessing the growth of the Internet, and e-commerce in particular, many marketers, as well as many analysts, tend to overlook Germany, often merely lumping it together with the rest of the E-5 countries or Western Europe as a whole. That's a mistake. Germany is the third-largest economy in the world, right behind the US and Japan, and what happens there — and when and why it happens — is vitally important to the growth of the Internet's infrastructure and economy.”
James Belcher
“I'll be focused on consumer technology and Internet media, in particular, search, mobile, commerce, online advertising and marketing.”
James Slavet
