regulation

Schmidt: Talking to Google Glass Could Make You a Spectacle

John Paczkowski in News on April 26 at 10:18 am PT

“I’m always concerned about premature regulation.”

T-Mobile Settles Claim That Its No-Strings Plans Have Too Many Strings

Ina Fried in Mobile on April 25 at 3:38 pm PT

Washington state alleged that T-Mobile wasn’t being upfront with customers about their obligations to fully pay off a phone before canceling service.

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Google Proposes Settlement Terms to EU Regulators

Amir Efrati, Reporter, The Wall Street Journal in Voices on April 14 at 11:22 am PT

In a settlement proposal to European Union antitrust lawyers, Google will submit a legally binding commitment to make minor changes to the look of its Web-search engine in order to allay concerns that it is hurting competitors.

For Netflix and the SEC, a Facebook Share Is Public Enough (With Caveats, of Course!)

Mike Isaac in News on April 2 at 1:41 pm PT

The stuffy federal institution loosens up a bit on its regulatory stance on social sharing of company information.

The FTC’s Guide to Peddling Bogus Diet Pills on Twitter

Peter Kafka in Media on March 12 at 2:21 pm PT

This stuff can be tricky. Pay attention!

Dear Brussels, You Are Fighting Last Century’s Battles

Ina Fried in News on March 6 at 1:58 pm PT

Why do European regulators spend so much time policing an aging desktop monopoly when the rest of the world has gone mobile?

Apple Now a Bit Easier to Deal With, and Other Observations From France Telecom’s Straight-Talking CEO

Ina Fried in Mobile on February 25 at 2:47 pm PT

At a dinner with reporters on Monday, Stephane Richard talks about the challenges facing Microsoft and BlackBerry in mobile, as well as his frustrations with European regulators.

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Travis Kalanick: The Transportation Trustbuster

Andy Kessler, Contributor, The Wall Street Journal in Voices on January 27 at 9:26 am PT

As he talks, Mr. Kalanick paces around the conference room carrying a golf putter. The more wound up he becomes, the more he seems likely to break a window than practice his stroke.

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French Government, ISPs Want Google, Others to Invest in Infrastructure

Sam Schechner, Reporter, The Wall Street Journal in News on January 8 at 5:30 am PT

The French government is studying ways to push large Web companies to pay local Internet providers more for the bandwidth being used, a minister said Monday, in a sign of how European countries are intensifying efforts to wring revenue out of largely American businesses such as Google Inc.

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Race On for Taxi Apps

Ted Mann, Reporter, The Wall Street Journal in Voices on December 8, 2012 at 9:42 pm PT

By early next year, hailing a yellow cab in New York City could be as easy as whipping out a smartphone and pressing a button. That is, unless the companies that run the city’s livery fleets succeed in blocking a rule change in a key vote next week.