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• India takes its toll on Vodafone

  Financial Times - 2009-11-10

  Vodafone, the world's largest mobile phone operator by revenue, warned of a sharper than expected reduction in its profit margin in 2009-10 and said that competition in India was taking its toll.The UK group tried to reassure investors by revealing a by Financial Times

  Tags: India, Vodafone Group Plc., Cell Phone, Cellular Phones, Advertising & Promotion, Consumer Electronics, Personal Technology, Marketing, Financial Times

• O2 may enter T-Mobile bidding war

  Strategy Eye - 2009-07-05

  O2 is likely to join the bidding war for T-Mobile, the UK mobile operator owned by Deutsche Telekom which has been valued at between EUR3bn (USD4.2bn) and EUR4bn (USD5.6bn). O2 currently owns 27% of the UK market, and may be looking to strengthen its position as the mobile market...

  Tags: T-Mobile, O2 Plc., U.K., Advertising & Promotion, Marketing, Orange, O2, Ofcom, Deutsche Telekom, Editorial, Vodafone Group Plc.

• Vodafone considers T-Mobile acquisition

  Strategy Eye - 2009-06-28

  Vodafone is considering making a bid for rival T-Mobile’s UK operations, which are said to be worth roughly USD5bn. However, regulators are likely to carefully scrutinise a deal, which would give Vodafone control of 40% of the UK market. The...

  Tags: Acquisition, Vodafone Group Plc., Mobile, T-Mobile, U.K., Tom Byrd, Mergers & Acquisitions, Advertising & Promotion, Manufacturing, Investment, Finance, Marketing, Deutsche Telekom, Jasper Jackson

• Twitter SMS returns to UK

  Strategy Eye - 2009-03-27

  Twitter is partnering with mobile operator Vodafone to allow UK users to receive tweets via SMS, resurrecting the service that it halted last year. Twitter was forced to abandon the service after is revealed that a single UK user could cost up to USD1,000 a year. ...

  Tags: Mobile, U.K., SMS, Twitter, Text Messaging/SMS/MMS, Advertising & Promotion, Telephony, Manufacturing, Cellular Phones, Consumer Electronics, Personal Technology, Online Communications, Marketing, Networking, O2, T-Mobile, Hutchison 3G UK Limited, Jasper Jackson, Vodafone Group Plc.

• Vodafone and Telefonica sign huge network-sharing deal

  Strategy Eye - 2009-03-25

  Vodafone and Telefonica are signing a far-reaching deal to share network infrastructure in Spain, Germany, Ireland and the UK, potentially saving the mobile operators hundreds of millions in capital and operating costs over the next ten years. The two firms are also discussing extending the arrangement to the Czech...

  Tags: Mobile Operator, Vodafone Group Plc., Mobile, Network, Telefonica, Manufacturing, Advertising & Promotion, Marketing, Jasper Jackson

• MySpace, bank of America and others get behind Symbian

  Strategy Eye - 2009-02-13

  Another 14 companies, including Bank of America, Hewlett-Packard, MySpace and Qualcomm, have lent their support to plans to turn Symbian into an open-source, mobile operating system. The system now has more support than Google’s mobile software competitor Android. The Symbian...

  Tags: Bank, Mobile, Symbian Inc., MySpace, Advertising & Promotion, Open Source, Marketing, LG Electronics, SAMSUNG, Symbian, Jasper Jackson, Bank of America Corp., Hewlett-Packard Co., Nokia Corp., Qualcomm Inc., Vodafone Group Plc.

• Vodafone CEO calls for collaboration

  Strategy Eye - 2009-01-27

  Vodafone, China Mobile and Verizon Wireless could deliver ?unbeatable? customer experience if they collaborated more closely, according to Vodafone CEO, Vittorio Colao. Vodafone already owns a 45% stake in Verizon, the second-largest phone company in the US, and a small...

  Tags: Mobile Internet, Vodafone Group Plc., Collaboration, Mobile, China Mobile Ltd., Advertising & Promotion, Wireless And Mobility, Marketing, George Mitton

• Vodafone Ventures Invests In Mobile Medical Technology Provider t+Medical

  Content Next - 2008-12-17

  Vodafone (NYSE: VOD) Ventures has invested an undisclosed sum in t+Medical, a British provider of mobile technology used to transfer patient biometric data. The funding from the corporate VC arm of the global telecoms group will be used to help the mobile medical platform firm roll outs its mPRO...

  Tags: Vodafone Group Plc., Patient, Mobile, Advertising & Promotion, Marketing, Companies, Operators, Vodafone, Money, VC M&A, Venture Capital, Dianne See Morrison

• Last.fm Gaining Mobile Momentum; Vodafone Latest To Add

  Content Next - 2008-12-17

  Last.fm is quickly gaining traction in the mobile world, adding Vodafone (NYSE: VOD) today to recent launches on T-Mobile and 3. The telco is making the social music site's Audioscrobbler available to Nokia (NYSE: NOK) N95, N96, N78 and 6210 handsets, allowing the site to monitor tracks being played...

  Tags: Vodafone Group Plc., Mobile, Last.fm, Advertising & Promotion, Video On Demand (VoD), Marketing, Personal Technology, Home Entertainment, Companies, Operators, Vodafone, Countries, Europe, UK, Entertainment, Mobile Music, Social Media, Robert Andrews, Nokia Corp.

• Mobile Content Bits: Nokia Music Store; Dow Jones iPhone App; Vodafone Widgets

  Content Next - 2008-12-16

  — Nokia (NYSE: NOK) Music Store exclusive: French singer Patricia Kaas is releasing her new album—the first in five years—through the Nokia Music Store, months before it is to be released in the spring in retail shops, reports Francemobiles.com. Nokia Music Store is also getting an exclusive version of...

  Tags: Vodafone Group Plc., Dow Jones & Company Inc., Nokia Corp., Mobile, App, Music, Nokia Music Store, Sales Strategy, Advertising & Promotion, Video On Demand (VoD), Sales Force Management, Sales, Marketing, Personal Technology, Home Entertainment, Companies, Apple, Nokia, Operators, Vodafone, Entertainment, Mobile Music, Dianne See Morrison, News Corp.