Vodafone Group PLC - Newbury, England-based telecommunications provider - Starts new share buyback worth up to EUR500 million. It is part of an overall EUR2 billion share buyback programme to return some of the proceeds from Vodafone's sale of its business in Spain to Zegona Communications PLC for EUR5 billion back in May. Read More
(Alliance News) - Vodafone Group PLC's sale of its Italian arm to Swisscom AG was approved by a watchdog in Italy on Wednesday. Read More
(Alliance News) - The following London-listed shares received analyst recommendations Wednesday morning and on Tuesday: Read More
(Alliance News) - London's FTSE 100 resumed its downward path on Tuesday, as a mixed bag of earnings, political uncertainty, and stronger-than-expected wage growth dented the mood. Read More
(Alliance News) - Stock prices in London were lower at midday on Tuesday as investors digest pessimistic data out of Europe, thanks to headwinds threatened by Donald Trump's US election victory. Read More
(Alliance News) - Vodafone Group PLC on Tuesday said profit more than doubled in the first half of its current financial year, as its income grew and some costs were reduced. Read More
Zegona Communications PLC - London-based investor in Europe's telecommunications, media and technology sectors led by former Virgin Media executives Eamonn O'Hare and Robert Samuelson - Vodafone Spain and Telefonica de Espana, part of Telefonica SA, on Thursday sign a binding contract to create a new fibre network company in Spain. Also Thursday, Vodafone Spain, Telefonica and Bluevia Fibra sign to binding five-year contract for fibre wholesale in Spain, starting January 1 next year. The contracts follow upon Zegona's announcements back in July of non-binding agreements to create FibreCos with both MasOrange SL, a joint venture of France's Orange SA and Spain's MasMovil Ibercom SA, and with Telefonica. The deals will allow Vodafone Spain to offer full 'fibre-to-the-home" services across Spain. Zegona completed its EUR5.0 billion acquisition of Vodafone Spain from Vodafone Group PLC back in May. Read More
(Alliance News) - Vodafone Group PLC on Tuesday in a joint statement with Hutchison 3G UK, trading as Three UK, said it welcomes the UK Competition and Markets Authority's findings into the pair's proposed landmark merger. Read More
(Alliance News) - The FTSE 100 was called to open lower on Tuesday morning, while across the pond Americans are set to head for the polls in the extremely tight presidential election. Read More
Vodafone Group PLC - Newbury, England-based telecommunications provider - Signs tentative accord with Hellenic Telecommunications Organization SA to buy part of Hellenic's wholly owned subsidiary Telekom Romania Mobile Communications SA. The deal would include Digi Romania SA, with Vodafone and Digi dividing up TKRM between them. Vodafone would buy the TKRM company and "a significant proportion of its assets", while Digi would buy other assets. Vodafone says the parties still need to complete due diligence, and discussions remain at an early stage. Read More
(Alliance News) - Vodafone Group PLC on Tuesday said it will deepen its strategic partnership with Alphabet Inc's Google, with a focus on generative artificial intelligence and cybersecurity. Read More
(Alliance News) - The following is a round-up of London-listed company director and manager changes announced recently and not separately reported by Alliance News: Read More
(Alliance News) - Stock prices in London remained lower at midday on Monday following GDP data, though the news of the day remained stimulus efforts in Beijing. Read More
(Alliance News) - Vodafone Group PLC on Monday said it disagree with the UK competition watchdog, which earlier this month said the proposed merger between Vodafone UK and Three UK would lead to price increases. Read More
(Alliance News) - Stock prices in London opened lower on Monday, as data showed that the UK's economic growth was weaker than had originally been anticipated. Read More
(Alliance News) - Stocks were lower in London on Monday morning, following data which showed that the UK's economic growth in the second quarter was weaker than expected. Read More
(Alliance News) - Swisscom AG on Tuesday announced that its acquisition of the Italian business belonging to Vodafone Group PLC has been cleared by the EU Commission. Read More
(Alliance News) - London's FTSE 100 held modest gains at midday on Friday as mining stock strength offset further falls for index heavyweight, AstraZeneca. Read More
(Alliance News) - A telecoms tie-up between Vodafone Group PLC and Three in the UK could mean "tens of millions of mobile customers" seeing price increases, a UK regulator has said in a provisional finding. Read More