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EU Regulators Weigh New Google Crackdown

Sam Schechner, Reporter, The Wall Street Journal in News on February 19 at 6:30 am PT

Privacy regulators from France and other European Union countries have proposed a coordinated crackdown before summer on Google Inc.’s privacy practices, escalating European efforts to reshape how global companies treat user data.

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Alcatel Chief Is Out as Turnaround Stalls

Sam Schechner and Dana Cimilluca, Reporters, The Wall Street Journal in News on February 7 at 5:00 am PT

Burning cash and reeling from cutthroat competition, Alcatel-Lucent SA said Thursday that its chief executive will step down after a transition period to find a successor.

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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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Apple’s TV Vision: Sharing, Full On-Demand, Icons

Jessica E. Vascellaro and Sam Schechner, Reporters, The Wall Street Journal in Media on August 16, 2012 at 4:50 pm PT

Apple Inc.’s vision for a new television set-top box includes features designed to simplify accessing and viewing programming and erase the distinction between live and on-demand content, people briefed on Apple’s plans said.

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Alcatel to Slash Jobs After Loss

Sam Schechner, Reporter, The Wall Street Journal in Mobile on July 26, 2012 at 5:45 am PT

Alcatel-Lucent SA shares slumped to new lows Thursday after the company burned through half a billion euros ($607.9 million) of cash in the second quarter of 2012 and announced a new cost-cutting plan to cope with its woes.

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Google Settles Lawsuits Brought by French Authors and Publishers

Sam Schechner, Reporter, The Wall Street Journal in News on June 11, 2012 at 6:30 am PT

Google Inc.’s effort to digitize the world’s books inched forward Monday, as the search giant said it had struck deals with French authors and publishers that end six years of litigation and open the way to sell out-of-print French books online.

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Online Video Turns Up Heat

Suzanne Vranica and Sam Schechner, Reporters, The Wall Street Journal in Media on April 23, 2012 at 3:13 pm PT

Though television may be losing viewers to online video, it has been holding on to advertisers. But with online-video outlets this week making their most organized push yet for ad dollars, that may be starting to change.

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The New Cable-TV Guy: Intel

Sam Schechner and Don Clark, Reporters, The Wall Street Journal in News on March 12, 2012 at 5:00 pm PT

Intel Corp. is developing an Internet-based TV service that it hopes to sell to U.S. consumers, a strategic shift for the chip maker that makes it the latest technology company to look at a foray in the pay-TV business.

Plans for “TV Everywhere” Bog Down in Tangled Pacts

Sam Schechner and Shalini Ramachandran in Media on March 5, 2012 at 3:00 am PT

It was dubbed “TV Everywhere.” But for many TV viewers, it has had trouble going anywhere.

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Comcast Is Launching a Netflix Competitor

Sam Schechner, Reporter, The Wall Street Journal in Media on February 21, 2012 at 10:40 am PT

Comcast Corp. is taking aim at Netflix Inc., unveiling its own streaming-video service that will give existing Comcast video customers a similar selection of old TV shows and movies over the Web.