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.
Arik Hesseldahl in News on January 27 at 5:56 am PT
All these hires are making the secretive networking start-up look ever more interesting by the day.
Arik Hesseldahl in News on January 5 at 7:05 am PT
Research firm Gartner just knocked down its growth forecast for global tech spending by nearly 1 percent. It may not sound like much, but it amounts to slowdown worth about $100 billion.
Kara Swisher in AsiaD on November 21, 2011 at 1:08 pm PT
The Chinese company is the world’s second-largest maker of telecommunications and networking gear — and you’re about to hear a lot more from it going forward.
John Paczkowski in AsiaD on October 20, 2011 at 8:30 pm PT
Today, Huawei is a $29 billion company. Ten years from now, it hopes to be at $100 billion. The head of Huawei’s North American R&D team is one of the guys charged with making that happen.
Will Connors and Devon Maylie, Reporters, The Wall Street Journal in News on September 13, 2011 at 3:53 am PT
Rocky You is determined to see his company’s $100 Chinese-made smartphone catch on in Nigeria, so he visits crowded Lagos shopping malls every few days to make his case directly to the sales clerks at cellphone shops and electronics stores.
Arik Hesseldahl in Enterprise on September 7, 2011 at 11:15 am PT
Long known as a vendor of the phone service of last resort for use in the world’s remotest locations, Iridium is pushing its data business with a new Wi-Fi device and a new handset.
Greg Bensinger, Reporter, The Wall Street Journal in News on August 7, 2011 at 11:30 am PT
About 45,000 Verizon Communications Inc. workers walked off the job Sunday after negotiators failed to reach an agreement on a new contract, marking the first strike at the telecommunications giant in 11 years.
Kara Swisher in News on July 1, 2011 at 2:31 pm PT
Microsoft’s SVP of Strategy and Partnership Hank Vigil will be leaving the software giant to focus on investing in and advising for early-stage start-up companies.
But the 25-year company veteran will also become a “strategic adviser” to Microsoft. That’s probably a good idea, since Vigil is one of the company’s most visible and well-liked execs in the tech community, especially in Silicon Valley.
Arik Hesseldahl in Enterprise on June 30, 2011 at 6:45 am PT
The earthquake in Japan isn’t having as much of an impact on worldwide IT spending as expected, the market research firm Gartner says. Growth, it says, will be healthy.
