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Cox Abandoning Effort for Own 3G Network; Sticking With Sprint Reseller Deal Instead

Ina Fried in News on May 24, 2011 at 4:33 pm PT

The cable company says the move will allow it to offer service faster and reach its goal of offering wireless service to half its customer base this year. Cox declined to comment on what it plans to do with its spectrum or how much it had spent on the effort to build its own network.

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Clearwire to Abandon Retail Strategy

Shayndi Raice and Joann S. Lublin, Reporters, The Wall Street Journal in News on February 9, 2011 at 3:43 pm PT

Clearwire Corp. has abandoned its retail strategy to focus on being a wholesale network provider of fast wireless service, said people familiar with the matter, opening the door for additional investment in the struggling company by Sprint Nextel Corp.

Another eBook Store? Yep! But This One's From Google.

Peter Kafka in Media on December 6, 2010 at 7:00 am PT

Don’t want to buy your ebooks from Amazon, Apple, Barnes & Noble or Borders? Google is happy to help.

Honey, I Shrunk the E-Book: Amazon Slicing "Singles" for Kindle [UPDATED]

Peter Kafka in Media on October 12, 2010 at 6:50 am PT

No reason not to do this: Amazon is carving out room on its digital shelves for “Singles”–essentially, mini e-books for its Kindle platform. Or, if you prefer, you can think of them as very long magazine articles.

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E-Commerce Sites Have Chinese Consumers Tossing The Catalog

Jonathan Shieber, Reporter, The Wall Street Journal in News on August 3, 2010 at 2:23 pm PT

China’s 21st century shoppers are trading in their catalogs for Web sites as new and specialized e-commerce companies come of age and raise venture capital to meet the demands of the country’s growing consumer class. In the first half of 2010, six venture-backed e-commerce companies in China raised at least $180 million to reach out to buyers increasingly comfortable with shopping online, according to reporting in VentureWire and local Chinese media outlets.