Vodafone Group Plc

Deutsche Telekom to work with Vodafone in internet venture - MarketWatch
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Vodafone Tax Demand Could Affect India Deals
Wall Street Journal, The | 33 days 20 hours 48 minutes ago
NEW DELHI -- Vodafone Group PLC's tax woes in India could have broader implications for other acquisitions in the country and possibly deter future deals as foreign investors grow wary of changing rules after the event, analysts say.India's demand of a $2 billion tax from Vodafone several months after the British company bought a stake in a local mobile-phone company is likely to create uncertainty among investors.

Nokia, Nortel, Sprint sink; Vodafone up - MarketWatch
MarketWatch | 57 days 15 hours 57 minutes ago
WASHINGTON (MarketWatch) -- Sprint Nextel Corp., Nortel Networks Corp. and Nokia Corp. headed a long list of decliners in the telecommunications sector as the group followed the broader U.S. market sharply lower.

Microsoft to Announce Verizon Wireless Deal
Wall Street Journal, The | 9 hours 6 minutes ago
LAS VEGAS – Microsoft Corp. is expected to announce a multiyear deal with Verizon Wireless to make its Internet search service broadly available on the wireless carrier's mobile phones.Microsoft's distribution deal with Verizon could provide a lift for its search business, which has lagged far behind Google Inc. in share of queries by Internet users. Google itself was negotiating a mobile search deal with Verizon, but Microsoft ended up beating out its rival. Microsoft CEO Steve Ballme...

Vodafone to buy Sweden's Wayfinder Systems (Reuters) by Reuters: Yahoo! Tech <meta http
Yahoo! | 29 days 21 hours 16 minutes ago
LONDON (Reuters) - Vodafone Group Plc (VOD.L) is to make a cash offer for a Swedish navigational software firm to help improve its mobile Internet offering by providing local search, advertising and direction services. Vodafone, the world's largest mobile phone group by revenue, has targeted growing mobile data revenues as the mobile market becomes saturated, and the acquisition of Wayfinder Systems (WAYF.NGM) could help it attract and keep customers.

Vodafone, Western Union Offer Transfers Via Cell
Wall Street Journal, The | 31 days 3 hours 53 minutes ago
EMBARGOED!Vodafone Group PLC plans to announce a partnership Monday with Western Union Co. to allow international money transfers via mobile phones, as the wireless carrier seeks to tap into the increasing flow of cross-border remittances.The companies are initially launching a pilot program that will allow residents of Reading in the United Kingdom to send money to family members and friends in Kenya, where Vodafone is the 40% owner of local wireless operator Safaricom Ltd. If that program i...

Vodafone offers to buy Sweden's Wayfinder
STLtoday.com | 29 days 21 hours 26 minutes ago
LONDON (AP) -- Vodafone Group PLC, the world's biggest mobile phone provider by sales, said Tuesday it has offered to buy Swedish wireless navigation device company Wayfinder Systems for 239 million Swedish kronor ($29 million) in cash. Vodafone's offer of 12 kronor per share represents a 253 percent premium to Monday's closing share price of 3.4 kronor. Pieter Knook, Vodafone's director of internet services, said the deal would enable Vodafone to give its customers Wayfinder technology o...

Vodafone offers to buy Swedish wireless navigation device company Wayfinder Systems
Sun (Baltimore), The | 25 days 1 hour 34 minutes ago
LONDON (AP) &amp;#8212; Vodafone Group PLC , the world's biggest mobile phone provider by sales, said Tuesday it has offered to buy Swedish wireless navigation device company Wayfinder Systems for 239 million Swedish kronor ($29 million) in cash.

Vodafone offers to buy Sweden's Wayfinder
Boston Globe, The | 29 days 21 hours 9 minutes ago
LONDON&mdash;Vodafone Group PLC, the world's biggest mobile phone provider by sales, said Tuesday it has offered to buy Swedish wireless navigation device company Wayfinder Systems for 239 million Swedish kronor ($29 million) in cash.

Vodafone Makes Play for Wayfinder
eWEEK.com | 29 days 15 hours 11 minutes ago
Vodafone, the world's largest mobile phone group by revenue, bids $30 million to acquire Swedish GPS software firm Wayfinder. Vodafone hopes the deal will bolster it mobile Internet offerings by providing local search, advertising and direction services.

Vodafone Posts 35% Drop in Net, Cuts Sales Outlook
Wall Street Journal, The | 57 days 23 hours 24 minutes ago
LONDON -- Vodafone Group PLC on Tuesday reported a 35% drop in first-half net income, hurt by an impairment loss on its Turkish unit, and warned that full-year sales would fall short of guidance.But the world's largest mobile-phone company by revenue maintained its profit targets for the year, as it outlined a &pound;1 billion ($1.56 billion) cost-saving program to mitigate the effects of the global economic slowdown.

Vodafone to Push Stake In Vodacom to Majority
Wall Street Journal, The | 57 days 10 hours 12 minutes ago
JOHANNESBURG -- Vodafone Group PLC, the world's largest mobile-phone operator by revenue, said it will take majority control of South Africa's Vodacom Group Ltd. in a 22.5 billion rand ($2.31 billion) deal that sets Vodafone up for further acquisitions in Africa.The U.K. company, which owns 50% of Vodacom, will buy a further 15% interest from venture partner Telkom SA, bringing its stake to 65%. It also will take on Vodacom debt of roughly 1.55 billion rand.

Microsoft Gets Key Search Deals
Wall Street Journal, The | 6 hours 20 minutes ago
LAS VEGAS -- Microsoft Corp., facing a bleak economy and rivals that have outflanked it in the consumer market, plans to announce a milestone for the next version of Windows and a raft of deals designed to boost its online search business.The company is expected to make a preliminary version of Windows 7, the next major edition of its flagship operating system, available for consumers to test on their PCs starting Friday. Microsoft will also announce a five-year deal with Verizon Wireless to ...

Vodafone to Focus on Cost Control After Revenue Cut - NYTimes.com
New York Times, The | 57 days 15 hours 42 minutes ago
Filed at 6:59 a.m. ET LONDON, Nov 11 (Reuters) - Mobile phone group Vodafone (NYSE:VOD) cut its full-year revenue outlook for the second time in four months on Tuesday but said it would maintain profits and boost free cash flow by cutting 1 billion pounds ($1.6 billion) of costs.