Vodafone Share News (VOD)

Weaker profits knock UK's Q3 dividends ahead of record 2014

* Q3 dividends down q/q for first time since 2008 * Full year dividend payouts to miss 2012 record * Vodafone will boost next year's total above 100 bln stg LONDON, Oct 21 (Reuters) - British companies posted lower than expected dividend growth in the third quarter, with total p

UPDATE 2-SoftBank to spend $1.26 bln for majority Brightstar stake

By Sinead Carew NEW YORK, Oct 18 (Reuters) - Japan's SoftBank Corp said on Friday it had agreed to pay $1.26 billion for a 57 percent stake in privately held cellphone distributor Brightstar Corp as it looks to boost its bargaining power with handset makers. SoftBank, which owns 80 p

CORRECTED-Off-exchange trading volumes hit record high in Europe

(Changes name of BATS Chi-X order book to BXE from DXE) LONDON, Oct 17 (Reuters) - The volume of European shares traded privately rather than on a public exchange jumped 35 percent year-on-year to a record high in the last six months, despite regulators' efforts to make markets more transpa

UPDATE 3-Verizon Q3 earnings, revenue beat Wall Street estimates

By Sinead Carew NEW YORK, Oct 17 (Reuters) - Verizon Communications Inc on Thursday posted stronger- than-expected third-quarter earnings and revenue driven by wireless growth, sending its shares up nearly 4 percent. While wireless customer growth was slightly below Wall Street estim

Verizon posts higher quarter revenue

NEW YORK, Oct 17 (Reuters) - Verizon Communications Inc on Thursday posted quarterly revenue slightly ahead of Wall Street expectations as it added customers to its wireless business. Verizon reported a profit of $2.2 billion, or 78 cents per share, compared with $1.59 billion, or 56 cents

UPDATE 1-Einhorn's Greenlight up 4.3 percent in Q3- letter

By Sam Forgione NEW YORK, Oct 15 (Reuters) - David Einhorn's hedge fund Greenlight Capital rose 4.3 percent in the third quarter, bringing the fund's net return for the year to 11.8 percent, according to an investor letter released on Tuesday. The $8-billion hedge fund also said it ad

REFILE- SIA sees launch of Italian mobile payments system in early 2014

MILAN, Oct 15 (Reuters) - Italian payments systems technology and services group SIA expects its contactless mobile phone payment system to be launched on its home market in early 2014, its chief executive said on Tuesday, as mobile users look to a future with less cash. Milan-based SIA, ow

Spain's mobile market shows signs of further recovery in August

By Clare Kane MADRID, Oct 15 (Reuters) - The number of mobile phone connections in Spain increased for a fourth straight month in August, data published on Tuesday showed, marking a tentative recovery after two years of client losses. Cash-strapped consumers in Spain, where one in fou

Indian stocks to watch - Oct 15

GLOBAL MARKETS ROUNDUP * Nifty futures on the Singapore Exchange up 0.95 percent and the MSCI-Asia Pacific index excluding Japan gains 0.78 percent. * Asian shares rose to their highest in nearly five months on expectations of an imminent deal to reopen the U.S. government and avert a possible

Telefonica set to sell $3.6 bln Czech stake - sources

By Clare Kane, Sophie Sassard and Anjuli Davies MADRID/LONDON, Oct 14 (Reuters) - Spanish telecoms group Telefonica has started preparing the sale of its $3.6 billion stake in its listed Czech unit, three sector bankers closely following the process but not directly involved said on Monday.

Vodafone Group settles takeover of Kabel Deutschland

Telecoms giant Vodafone Group has announced that its subsidiary's takeover of Kabel Deutschland has been settled. Vodafone Vierte Verwaltungs completed the $6.6bn takeover on October 14th and now holds 76.57% of the share capital. Vodafone will now generate £9.8bn of its revenues from Germany.

Vodafone Completes Kabel Deutschland Offer, Starts Transfer Talks

Deutsche Telekom hopes to hide German internet traffic from spies

FRANKFURT, Oct 12 (Reuters) - Germany's biggest telecoms operator is pushing to shield local internet traffic from foreign spies by routing it only through domestic connections, Deutsche Telekom said on Saturday. Public outrage followed revelations that U.S. spy programmes had accessed the

UPDATE 1-AT&T limits new customers to data-share plans only

NEW YORK, Oct 11 (Reuters) - New AT&T Inc customers will soon only be able to buy Mobile Share plans, which involve higher data fees, but allow subscribers to share data allowances among multiple devices. The No. 2 U.S. mobile operator said on Friday the elimination of older plans for new c

MARKET COMMENT: UK Shares Gain Amid Royal Mail Scramble