As Cash Stops Flowing, Venture Capitalists Get Creative - WSJ.com: "As venture-capital funds face a cash crunch driven by the financial downturn, they are taking extreme measures to ensure they can fund their investments. Some venture capitalists are selling their equity stakes in start-up companies at fire-sale valuations so they don't have to keep funding those businesses, allowing them to husba...

John Garcia, an executive in charge of Sprint Nextel Corp.'s ( S ) CDMA business, is leaving the company, The Wall Street Journal reported in its online edition Friday.

Cellphone Makers Brace for the Shake-Up - WSJ.com Weekend Video From Monaco Media Forum: Is Mobile A Real Medium? An interesting and wide-ranging panel video from the Monaco Media Forum from earlier this week, about the international perspective on mobile as a medium. Panelists: Alvin Wang Graylin, CEO, minfo;Omar Hamoui, CEO, AdMob; Alexandre Mars, CEO, Phonevalley and Head of Mobile, Publicis Gr...

Notorious economic newspaper, Wall Street Journal (WSJ), unveils its online report about the 2009 outlook of mobile manufacturers sales condition. Following the slowdown in 2008–thanks to global financial crisis–WSJ predicted 2009 will be a rocky mountain for phone sales. Here is the summary of what analyst predicted: Shipment will lower 1% to 9% of total sales ...

AT&T’s head of the wireless and consumer markets division Ralph de la Vega said Thursday that the company was working on a new service that would let Apple iPhone owners use their devices as a modem for their laptop computers. [via WSJ Blog] A spokesman for AT&T declined to provide more details, but confirmed that “we’re working on that application with Apple and hope to make it availab...

WSJ reports Microsoft has sweetened the pot in attempts to put its search service and advertising on Verizon phones in a move to thwart Google's attempts at landing the deal.

Yesterday, a National Football League game — the Cleveland Browns vs. the Denver Broncos — was broadcast on Sprint mobile phones as part of an exclusive partnership with Sprint, a deal that’s valued about $500 million over five years, reports the WSJ. Over the next seven weeks, Sprint will phone-cast the eight games that are televised

WSJ sources close to Motorola have been informed that the manufacturer will start focusing on the Google Android operating system, rather than on Symbian, and the move will mean that a great number of jobs will be lost. Motorola refused to comment, but Sanjay Jha, the company’s co-CEO had told employees that Motorola will use Windows

WSJ reports Motorola's co-chief exec, Sanjay Jha, is set to report more job cuts and focus on Google's Android OS for many of the company's new phones.

Motorola’s co-chief executive, Sanjay Jha, who heads the mobile devices business, has decided to focus on Google’s Android software for many new phones, the WSJ reported today. Details of the plan, which could include thousands of layoffs, could be announced Thursday, when the company reports its results, the paper said. Motorola is expected to build mid-tier