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The U.S. online advertising market is much bigger than Europe's but it is a crowded market and the room for growth is shrinking. In Europe, online advertising is growing much faster and portals like Yahoo want to tap into that.

Julian Smith

The first attempts embraced information access and not commerce, ... The next phase was commerce, phones connected to Web sites. Now voice portals are accepting phone calls and retrieving information from Web databases, ... databases that would normally be driving Web sites.

George White

Mistakes are the portals of discovery.

James Joyce

A man of genius makes no mistakes; his errors are volitional and are the portals of discovery.

James Joyce

The basis for contents on the Internet is shifting from text to video and Korean portals are adapting themselves to the change well.

Dwayne Lee

Fund companies are having trouble justifying building up Web sites. It's amazing how few fund companies advertise at portals, Morningstar and online business sites.

James Punishiller

This is clearly an e-commerce strategy. What AltaVista and other portals want to do is attract users to their portal, and the purpose of that is to drive e-commerce.

Brownlee Thomas

The portals want to give good results and the little companies want to be up there with the big guys. After all, everyone and their brother wants to get higher ratings.

Paul Hagen

I think people are used to channels. They're not used to portals.

Larry Fischer

Reducing out-of-stocks is an example of the portal's usefulness with RFID.

Christine Wan

Right now, they give about 85 percent of value-added content revenues to the portals. They could try to change that deal.

Duncan Clark

Portals are becoming a core piece of [IT] infrastructure for organizations around the world. It's a key element of our overall service-oriented architecture story.

Mike Rhodin