Vodafone Group Plc

NEW YORK -- Best Buy will be the first U.S. chain store to sell the iPhone starting September 7th. Best Buy's announcement expands the availability of Apple's popular phone to 970 full-size stores and 16 smaller Best Buy Mobile stores. In Europe,...

Verizon Communications Inc.'s second-quarter earnings rose 12 percent, the company said yesterday, while revenue was slightly shy of expectations and customers disconnected their landlines faster than before. The nation's second-largest...

Wall Street shook off early doldrums and closed higher after another drop in oil prices encouraged investors to set aside financial sector worries and go bargain hunting. Stocks initially fell on uneasiness about the continuing impact of the housing...

It's easy to understand why Alltel Wireless' private equity owners want to flip the company to Verizon Wireless for no profit less than a year after they bought it. Thanks to the credit boom's collapse, they'd have to search long and hard for any other...

Every so often history seems to repeat itself right before your eyes. That happened last week as Los Angeles City Atty. Rocky Delgadillo sued Time Warner Cable Inc., alleging that it failed to deliver on promises of better service. Those vows were made a...

50 Cent is putting the brakes on performances in Europe. MTV News said the rapper canceled performances at the MOBO Awards and the Vodafone Live Music Awards, both in London on Wednesday, and a performance for MTV in Germany on Friday. No details were...

50 Cent, who is in a much-hyped battle of album sales with Kanye West, has canceled several performances in Europe. MTV News said the rapper, 31, canceled performances at The MOBO Awards and the Vodafone Live Music Awards, both in London on Wednesday,...

This is going to be painful to write, so I might as well get it over with quickly: Kudos to Verizon Wireless, which really does seem serious about opening its network to independent developers and phone manufacturers. I can hardly believe I'm saying nice...

Yahoo co-founder Jerry Yang promised to reconsider every aspect of the underperforming company's business shortly after he took over as chief executive five months ago. So here's a question for him: How much is the company's soul worth? To be fair, the...

The Broadband Era is still too young for anyone to predict which business models will be long-term successes. For online video, though, the momentum is strongly in favor of free, advertiser-supported distribution (or in YouTube's case, still-waiting-for-...

Q: Can I expect my Verizon Communications Inc. shares to continue to go up? --L.R., via the Internet A: This attractive, aggressive telecommunications giant faces ongoing industry challenges. The latest attempt to snare its customers is archrival AT&T...

Verizon Wireless on Thursday launched a broadcast TV service for cell phones in about 20 Midwestern and Western markets, charging $15 to $25 a month for the initial lineup from eight leading networks. While Verizon had already said it planned to...