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- Vodafone Says Not Pursuing MTN Bid
- LONDON (Reuters UK) - Vodafone Group VOD, the world's largest mobile phone group by revenue, has no intention of pursuing a bid for the South African company MTN MTNJ, a spokesman said on Sunday. Reports in the Sunday Telegraph and Sunday Times said Vodafone was...
- News items 2008-05-11
- Vodafone to Sell IPhone in Italy
- LONDON/AMSTERDAM (Reuters UK) - Telecoms companies Vodafone VOD and Telecom Italia TLIT will both sell Apple's AAPL iPhone in Italy, in an apparent break from previous exclusive carrier deals. So far, Apple has struck exclusive deals with carriers to sell the phone, such as with...
- News items 2008-05-06
- Vodafone Qatar Nears 40 Pct Share Sale
- DUBAI (Reuters UK) - Vodafone Qatar, the country's second mobile operator, said on Wednesday it intended to appoint HSBC and Qatar National Bank to lead manage its initial public offering. The joint venture, in which Vodafone Group VOD owns 51 percent while the rest belongs...
- News items 2008-04-23
- Vodafone buys Danish mobile startup for USD48.8m
- Vodafone has agreed to acquire mobile startup Zyb for EUR31.5m (USD48.8m), says Dow Jones Newswire. The Copenhagen-based mobile back-up and phonebook services firm raised an undisclosed amount of funding from Nordic Venture Partners two years ago. It recently purchased Imity, a local startup that develops a location-based social network...
- News items 2008-05-16
- France's SFR launches full buyout offer for Neuf
- Vivendi-owned SFR is launching a full buyout offer for France's second-largest ISP, Neuf Cegetel. The EUR35.90 (USD55.56)-per-share offer is valid from May 19 to Jun 13. SFR made the bid after receiving the green light from France's stock exchange watchdog, AMF. A full buyout offer...
- News items 2008-05-16
- Carphone says still in race for Tiscali
- Carphone Warehouse insists that it is still in the race for Tiscali, after reports claimed the UK company was missing from a short-list of bidders for the ISP. "We have not heard anything from Tiscali, so as far as we are concerned we are still in the game," a...
- News items 2008-05-14
- Orange to sell iPhone in Middle East and Africa
- France Telecom's Orange has won the rights to sell the iPhone in a string of countries across Europe, the Middle East and Africa. The carrier, which is Apple's exclusive iPhone seller in France, will be the exclusive carrier in Belgium and Romania. In other countries, it will sell the...
- News items 2008-05-16
- Sistema could bid for Telekom Austria stake - Rumour
- Russian telecoms holding group Sistema is considering acquiring a stake in Telekom Austria, which is rumoured to be planning a split, reports Austria's Wirtschaftsblatt. Sistema dismisses the report, which says the two companies are holding talks over a possible deal. It says other possible buyers include Vodafone and Telefonica....
- News items 2008-05-13
- Sprint Faces Tough Questions at Annual Meeting
- NEW YORK (Reuters UK) - Sprint Nextel S faced multiple questions about how it would turn the company around and stop customers from fleeing its cell phone service at its annual shareholder meeting, where voters only narrowly rejected one proposal that would have let them...
- News items 2008-05-13
- dotMobi buys mobile web assets of Mowser
- Vodafone-backed dotMobi is buying the mobile web technology of Mowser, the US startup which nearly closed down last month when founder Russell Beattie claimed mobile internet was dead. Beattie, however, will be joining dotMobi along with co-founder Mike Rowehl as part of the acquisition. No sum is disclosed, but...
- News items 2008-05-12
- Sprint's Loss Widens
- By Sinead Carew NEW YORK (Reuters UK) - Sprint Nextel S, the No. 3 U.S. wireless service provider, said on Monday it may seek changes to its credit agreements, raising questions about how long it will take to turn around the business. The company posted a...
- News items 2008-05-12
- Sprint's Loss Widens, Sees Slow Improvement
- By Sinead Carew NEW YORK (Reuters) - Sprint Nextel Corp S, the No. 3 U.S. wireless service provider, said on Monday it may seek changes to its credit agreements, raising questions about how long it will take to turn around the business. The...
- News items 2008-05-12
- Tiscali enters movie studio deal amid takeover auction
- Tiscali is partnering with Sony Pictures Television and Disney-ABC to distribute movies from the two studios on its Italian IPTV service. The deals will bring Tiscali's VoD catalogue to more than 1,000 titles, including Disney's 'Pirates of the Caribbean: The Curse of the Black Pearl', 'Chicago' and 'Bugs', as...
- News items 2008-05-09
- Virgin Mobile and Korea's SK in Talks
- By Sinead Carew NEW YORK (Reuters UK) - Richard Branson's Virgin Mobile USA VM and South Korea's SK Telecom , which controls U.S. mobile service Helio, are in early talks on a deal, a person familiar with the discussions said on Friday. The person, who was...
- News items 2008-05-09
- Quickoffice buys BlackBerry document editing firm
- Mobile document software developer QuickOffice will be able to reach BlackBerry customers after acquiring New York-based DynoPlex for an undisclosed sum. Both companies make software to use and manage Windows applications on mobile phones. While DynoPlex focuses solely on Research In Motion's BlackBerry smartphones, Quickoffice supports Apple's iPhone, Symbian...
- News items 2008-05-08
- D.Telekom Meets Expectations, Confirms Outlook
- FRANKFURT (Reuters) - Deutsche Telekom DTEGn posted flat first-quarter core profit, in line with expectations, as revenues at its fixed-line and broadband unit declined. Adjusted earnings before interest, taxes, depreciation and amortization EBITDA were 4.7 billion euros ($7.28 billion) on sales...
- News items 2008-05-07
- BHP Chief Says China to Buy Stake in Firm One Day
- By Eric Onstad LONON (Reuters UK) - Chinese investors are certain eventually to buy a stake in mining group BHP Billiton BLT BHP, Chief Executive Marius Kloppers said on Wednesday. "Various parts of China that have got surplus funds, capital to deploy, are deploying that across...
- News items 2008-05-07
- Qwest Posts Lower Quarterly Profit
- NEW YORK (Reuters) - Telephone company Qwest Communications International Inc Q reported a 34.6 percent fall in quarterly earnings on Tuesday, hurt by increased tax expense, charges for job cuts and weakness in its long-distance phone business. Qwest, seen as one...
- News items 2008-05-06
- D.Telekom Pressed to Do M&A, Looks at Sprint: Sources
- By Nicola Leske and Nikola Rotscheroth LUXEMBOURG/DUESSELDORF (Reuters) - Deutsche Telekom AG's major shareholder, the German state, is pressing it to make large acquisitions in the hope of raising its sagging share price, a source familiar with the government's thinking said. "Berlin is...
- News items 2008-05-05
- Sprint Shares Up on Reports of D.Telekom Interest
- By Ritsuko Ando NEW YORK (Reuters UK) - Sprint Nextel S shares jumped on Monday on reports that Deutsche Telekom DTEGn may be interested in buying the No. 3 U.S. mobile operator, but analysts said such a deal would be fraught with problems. While combining Sprint...
- News items 2008-05-05
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