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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.
John Paczkowski in Mobile on November 16, 2011 at 7:42 am PT
Though you might assume otherwise, the iPhone’s debut on rival networks Verizon and Sprint hasn’t really fazed AT&T.
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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.
Tricia Duryee in Commerce on July 12, 2011 at 9:00 am PT
At a PayPal event today at its San Jose headquarters, the company provided at least one good reason to use digital payments: It can save your life during a Zombie Apocalypse!
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Tricia Duryee in Commerce on March 23, 2011 at 10:21 am PT
Boku, a mobile payments provider, said it has signed a direct carrier billing relationship with Telefónica’s O2 in Germany. That means that O2 customers can charge virtual, digital and physical goods ranging from .09 Euros to 30 Euros to their carrier bill by entering their phone number into an app or other form. In general, the trend has been for carriers to increasingly lower the fees they charge for physical goods
to make charging lower margin goods to the carrier bill more feasible. Boku says it’s connected to 230 operators in 65 countries, although not all carriers support physical payments.
Ina Fried in Mobile on February 15, 2011 at 8:08 am PT
Although they may not be the Salsa and Cha Cha models shown off on stage in Barcelona, AT&T said it will exclusively have HTC Android-based phones with a similar one-button access to Facebook.
John Paczkowski in News on February 10, 2011 at 6:45 am PT
Good news for long-suffering Sprint Nextel investors: Customer retention has finally improved to the point where the carrier is able to report actual gains in postpaid subscribers, rather than losses.
Liz Gannes in Social on February 9, 2011 at 10:53 pm PT
I last wrote about Bubble Motion, provider of the Bubbly mobile messaging service, exactly a year ago. At the time, the company had 150,000 users. Today, it has more than seven million.
Walt Mossberg in Personal Technology on February 9, 2011 at 6:01 pm PT
Dell’s Streak 7 is the least expensive tablet from a major manufacturer and claims to be the first capable of 4G cellular speeds, but the compromises made to get the price down make it impossible to recommend.
