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Sony Stakes Recovery on New Smartphone

Daisuke Wakabayashi, Reporter, The Wall Street Journal in Mobile on March 2 at 4:10 pm PT

TOKYO — When the head of NTT DoCoMo Inc., Japan’s biggest mobile carrier, took the stage in January to introduce its latest models, he declared Sony Corp.’s new Xperia Z smartphone his company’s top pick, the equivalent of a mother announcing her favorite child.

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Users Rip AT&T Data Curbs

Anton Troianovski and Greg Bensinger, Reporters, The Wall Street Journal in Mobile on March 2, 2012 at 11:30 pm PT

Wireless carriers are getting increasingly forceful in their efforts to pitch mobile bandwidth as a scarce, valuable commodity — setting up a battle with consumer groups that support open-Internet rules and longtime customers who treasure their unlimited data plans.

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AT&T Says Its Merger Withdrawal Beat Out FCC to Hearing Vote

Greg Bensinger, Dow Jones Newswires in Mobile on November 25, 2011 at 9:44 am PT

AT&T Inc. said it withdrew its application with the Federal Communications Commission for approval of its planned T-Mobile USA takeover before commissioners had the opportunity to vote on a proposal to send the merger to a hearing for approval.

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Softbank to Sell Most of Yahoo Stake

Juro Osawa, Reporter, The Wall Street Journal in News on August 26, 2011 at 9:43 am PT

Softbank, the Japanese Internet group, said Friday it will pocket a handsome profit by repaying a $1.135 billion loan it took out from Citibank in the U.S. with most of its 4 percent stake in Yahoo Inc., which is worth around $650 million at current market value.