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Tech Firms Push to Control Web’s Pipes

Drew FitzGerald and Spencer E. Ante, Reporters, The Wall Street Journal in News on December 17, 2013 at 4:31 am PT

Technology giants like Google Inc. and Facebook Inc. are expanding efforts to control more of the world’s Internet backbone, raising tensions with telecom companies over who runs the Web.

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White House Claims “Dramatic Progress” on Health Site

Amy Schatz, Louise Radnofsky and Spencer E. Ante, Reporters, The Wall Street Journal in News on December 1, 2013 at 4:05 pm PT

Obama administration officials, racing to beat a month-end deadline to fix the troubled federal insurance website, said Sunday there has been “dramatic progress” in patching HealthCare.gov but acknowledged “there is more work to be done” in improving the site and its underlying technology.

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As Deadline Expires, Problems Persist With Health Site

Louise Radnofsky and Spencer E. Ante, Reporters, The Wall Street Journal in Voices on December 1, 2013 at 6:09 am PT

Technicians in the Washington area raced up to a month-end deadline set by the Obama administration to make the troubled federal insurance website work for a majority of users, but officials acknowledged they still faced a raft of problems that could take weeks or more to fix.

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HP Will Replace Verizon in Hosting HealthCare.gov Website

Spencer E. Ante and Christopher Weaver, Reporters, The Wall Street Journal in News on November 27, 2013 at 3:14 pm PT

The Department of Health and Human Services is going to replace Verizon Communications Inc.’s Terremark subsidiary as its Web-hosting provider for the federal health-insurance marketplace, presenting a new challenge to the rollout of the Obama administration’s signature health-care initiative.

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Sprint Shakes Up Sales, Marketing Teams

Spencer E. Ante and Ryan Knutson, Reporters, The Wall Street Journal in Mobile on October 4, 2013 at 12:59 pm PT

Sprint Corp. is reshuffling its sales and marketing departments in its first major personnel moves since being acquired by SoftBank Corp. earlier this year.

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Vodafone, Verizon Agree on $130 Billion Deal

Spencer E. Ante and Costas Paris, Reporters, The Wall Street Journal in Mobile on September 1, 2013 at 11:19 am PT

Negotiators for Verizon Communications Inc. and Vodafone Group PLC have agreed to a deal in which Verizon will pay about $130 billion for the U.K. company’s stake in their U.S. joint venture, a person familiar with the matter said.

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Verizon Wireless Deal Could Happen Within a Week

Spencer E. Ante, Ryan Knutson and Dana Cimilluca, Reporters, The Wall Street Journal in Mobile on August 29, 2013 at 9:48 am PT

Verizon Communications Inc. is in talks to pay as much as $130 billion for Vodafone Group PLC’s stake in their U.S. wireless venture in a deal that could be completed within a week, people familiar with the matter said.

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U.S. Tightens Grip on Telecom

Spencer E. Ante and Ryan Knutson, Reporters, The Wall Street Journal in News on August 28, 2013 at 8:00 am PT

The U.S. government has used the merger-approval process to increase its influence over the telecom industry, bringing more companies under its oversight and gaining a say over activities as fundamental as equipment purchases

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Smartphone Upgrades Slow as “Wow” Factor Fades

Spencer E. Ante, Reporter, The Wall Street Journal in Mobile on July 17, 2013 at 4:16 am PT

Fewer people are upgrading their smartphones — a trend that could make it harder for companies from AT&T Inc. to Apple Inc.to keep up the pace of revenue growth.

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CIA Chooses: Amazon or IBM?

Spencer E. Ante, Reporter, The Wall Street Journal in News on June 12, 2013 at 7:30 am PT

The battle between International Business Machines Corp. and Amazon.com Inc. over a $600 million contract to set up a cloud-computing system for the Central Intelligence Agency shows the growing importance of intelligence-agency business for technology companies.