Ian Sherr, Reporter, The Wall Street Journal in Mobile on February 8 at 5:30 am PT
Apple Inc. has asked a telecommunications standards body to set basic principles governing how member companies license their patents, an increasingly contentious topic for rivals in the smartphone industry.
Frances Robinson, Reporter, The Wall Street Journal in Mobile on January 31 at 6:00 am PT
The European Commission has opened a formal investigation into technology giant Samsung Electronics to see whether it is using specially protected patents, known as “standards-essential,” to distort the market for mobile devices such as phones and tablets in Europe.
Lauren Goode in Commerce on January 25 at 8:13 am PT
Would new standards for wireless SD cards offer more options to camera consumers, or just confuse them? Eye-Fi’s CEO says the latter is the case.
Kara Swisher in Media on September 2, 2011 at 6:16 am PT
It’s a giant, filthy mud puddle of conflicts of interest in Silicon Valley, but everybody’s in the cesspool, it seems.
Kara Swisher in Media on July 19, 2011 at 6:36 am PT
News Corp. CEO and majordomo Rupert Murdoch tells British lawmakers he is sorry on the “most humble day of my life”, survives a surprise attack and loses his jacket.
Other than that, the hearing turned into a what
didn’t the Murdochs know and when
didn’t they know it Q&A session.
Kara Swisher in News on April 28, 2011 at 10:19 am PT
Would it surprise you to know that BoomTown doesn’t really care anymore if TechCrunch editor Michael Arrington sidelines as a blogger while he makes investments in tech companies his tech news site covers? Especially after reading his post yesterday that made a good argument about who he is and, frankly, who he has always been.
But that does not mean his boss, AOL content head Arianna Huffington, doesn’t have some
‘splainin’ to do.
John Paczkowski in Mobile on January 20, 2011 at 7:19 am PT
Another blow landed in the Apple-Nokia patent punch-up. Apple on Tuesday sued Nokia in the High Court in London seeking to invalidate one of the patents at issue between the companies. This particular one covers touchscreen scrolling and is one of a number of patents Nokia has accused Apple of infringing.
Kara Swisher in News on October 8, 2010 at 4:32 pm PT
Today, in a sharply worded post titled “In Defense of Standards, Ethics, and Honest Financial Reporting at Hewlett-Packard,” prominent venture capitalist Ben Horowitz took to his blog to shoot back at the plethora of critics of the Hewlett-Packard board for their conduct related to the controversial jettisoning of CEO Mark Hurd.
Let us just say, the longtime business partner of HP board member Marc Andreessen did not mince words.
Ben Horowitz, Co-founder and General Partner, Andresseen Horowitz in News on October 8, 2010 at 4:22 pm PT
Recently, my old company Hewlett-Packard has been in the news–and not in a good way. I’ve been watching the coverage from the sidelines up to this point, but felt increasingly compelled to join the conversation and share my point of view. So here goes.
John Paczkowski in News on July 6, 2010 at 9:38 am PT
Nokia is unloading its wireless modem business. The company said today that Renesas Electronics is acquiring the division, which makes inexpensive plug-in USB modems, for $200 million.
