Anton Troianovski

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Social Media Pose New Riddle for CIA

Anton Troianovski and Siobhan Gorman, Reporters, The Wall Street Journal in Social on May 17 at 5:00 am PT

Effective spycraft has long called for cover — a job, family or routine that would keep a government agent from drawing undue attention. Now, that calculation extends to spies’ use of social media.

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Apps: The New Corporate Cost-Cutting Tool

Anton Troianovski, Reporter, The Wall Street Journal in Mobile on March 6 at 4:33 am PT

Apps may be creating new jobs for developers and marketers. But around the edges of the rest of the economy, they’re also starting to become a substitute for people who earn a paycheck.

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The Web-Deprived Study at McDonald’s

Anton Troianovski, Reporter, The Wall Street Journal in News on January 29 at 11:22 am PT

Cheap smartphones and tablets have put Web-ready technology into more hands than ever. But the price of Internet connectivity hasn’t come down nearly as quickly.

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Huawei’s Smartphone Sales Eclipse Nokia, RIM

Anton Troianovski, Reporter, The Wall Street Journal in Mobile on January 26 at 8:04 am PT

Huawei has 5 percent market share of global smartphones, according to IDC.

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Google Creating Wireless Network, but for What?

Amir Efrati and Anton Troianovski, Reporters, The Wall Street Journal in Mobile on January 24 at 6:45 am PT

Google is trying to create an experimental wireless network covering its Mountain View, Calif., headquarters, a move that some analysts say could portend the creation of dense and superfast Google wireless networks in other locations that would allow people to connect to the Web using their mobile devices.

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AT&T Stalking Europe for Mergers

Anton Troianovski, Anupreeta Das and Dana Cimilluca, Reporters, The Wall Street Journal in Mobile on January 17 at 5:30 am PT

The telecommunications giant is considering buying a counterpart in Europe, a bet that it can best escape constraints on growth at home by getting into a new wireless market.

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In Clearwire Gambit, Spectrum Is the Prize

Anton Troianovski, Shalini Ramachandran and Anupreeta Das, Reporters, The Wall Street Journal in News on January 10 at 7:30 am PT

Charlie Ergen, chairman of Dish Network Corp., is in a familiar position: He can win even by losing.

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U.S. Expands Child Online Privacy Law to Cover Apps, Social Networks

Anton Troianovski, Reporter, The Wall Street Journal in News on December 19, 2012 at 10:06 am PT

The Federal Trade Commission on Wednesday updated its decade-old rules governing children’s online privacy to reflect the growth of social networks and smartphone apps, but backed away from earlier proposals that could have made companies like Facebook Inc. and Apple Inc. more responsible for violations.

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Japan’s Masayoshi Son Picks a Fight With U.S. Phone Giants

Daisuke Wakabayashi and Anton Troianovski, Reporters, The Wall Street Journal in Mobile on November 24, 2012 at 1:00 pm PT

In Japan, Masayoshi Son is known as the eccentric Internet billionaire who upended the country’s telecom industry. In the U.S., he is about to become the cash-strapped underdog who picked a fight with two corporate giants — AT&T Inc. and Verizon Wireless.

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A Look Inside Verizon’s Flooded Communications Hub

Anton Troianovski, Reporter, The Wall Street Journal in News on November 1, 2012 at 7:30 am PT

Eleven years after the 9/11 terrorist attacks, Verizon Communications Inc. is once again scrambling to repair severe damage to a key switching facility inside its historic headquarters building in lower Manhattan.