Ina Fried in Mobile on April 6 at 12:03 pm PT
The Taiwanese electronics maker says it will formally announce its plans mid-month, with the add-on kit shipping two weeks after that.
Ina Fried in Mobile on April 5 at 5:00 am PT
Backer Phil Falcone says the company may consider a voluntary bankruptcy filing as it figures out what to do after regulators thwarted its wireless network plans.
John Paczkowski in News on March 14 at 3:27 am PT
LightSquared hires former Bush administration solicitor general Ted Olson and Eugene Scalia, son of Supreme Court Justice Antonin Scalia, to save its network.
Lauren Goode in Commerce on February 22 at 2:38 pm PT
Mobile payments start-up Square wants to snag New York City taxicabs — and its rivals are unlikely to keep quiet about it.
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Greg Bensinger, Reporter, The Wall Street Journal in Mobile on February 17 at 3:55 pm PT
Investors in Philip Falcone’s Harbinger Capital Partners sued the fund and Mr. Falcone on Friday, saying the “all in” investment in wireless startup LightSquared Inc. squandered billions of dollars.
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Greg Bensinger, Reporter, The Wall Street Journal in Mobile on February 15 at 12:42 pm PT
Sprint Nextel Corp. said it would have to return $65 million to Philip Falcone’s LightSquared if the hedge-fund manager’s wireless venture fails to get final Federal Communications Commission approval by a mid-March deadline between the two companies.
Ina Fried in Mobile on February 14 at 4:47 pm PT
The FCC recommends pulling its conditional approval for the network.
Lauren Goode in Commerce on January 30 at 9:03 am PT
The souped-up shoes are aimed at caretakers who need to monitor people suffering from Alzheimer’s disease or dementia. However, they raise some technical — and legal — questions.
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Jess Bravin, Reporter, The Wall Street Journal in News on January 23 at 9:43 am PT
The Supreme Court ruled Monday that police must obtain a warrant before attaching a GPS tracker to a suspect’s vehicle, voting unanimously in one of the first major cases to test constitutional privacy rights in the digital age.
One of the core things that people do on their screens in the car is GPS navigation and the ability to see which of your friends are nearby is something we think will be really interesting for people.
– Facebook Vice President of Partnerships and Platform Marketing Dan Rose, referring to the Mercedes version of Facebook
