High street giants Marks & Spencer and Boots will be among a clutch of heavyweight companies to report results this week.

Another lacklustre trading session sent stocks lower on the New York exchange today despite a wave of corporate deals that underscored the economy’s overall health.

Vodafone Group PLC chief executive officer Arun Sarin said Vivendi Universal SA's SFR Cegetel unit will ond day be a part of Vodafone.

Cingular Wireless, the joint venture between SBC Communications Inc and BellSouth Corp, has officially confirmed it has won the bidding for AT&T Wireless.

Mobile phone giant Vodafone today said it had pulled out of the multi-billion pound auction for US operator AT&T Wireless.

SHARES in British mobile phone giant Vodafone fell more than 3% yesterday after the City came out against a mooted £18 billion expansion in North America.

A late afternoon rally helped promote Dublin's ISEQ into positive territory this evening, closing up 2.56 points to 5043.08.

Vodafone group's shares slipped nearly 4% this morning as concerns mounted on the mobile operator getting involved in a bidding battle to takeover US company AT&T Wireless Services.

It has been reported that Vodafone, the word's number one mobile operator, has bid around $35bn (€27.47bn) for AT&T Wireless.

Mobile phone giant Vodafone is facing just one rival in the multi-billion pound race for US operator AT&T Wireless, it was reported today.

Today's deadline for US phone company AT&T Wireless is expected to generate at least two competing offers for the $30bn (€23.4bn) business, according to the Financial Times.

Vodafone Group PLC has declined to comment on a newspaper report that chief executive Arun Sarin is expected to recommend a $30-35bn (€23.40bn-€27.30bn) bid for AT&T Wireless in the coming days.

VODAFONE’S share price has come under renewed pressure amid rumours of an intended bid for AT&T’s mobile giant AT&T Wireless in the United States.

Payments solution company Trintech has launched its new PayWare GiftCard in the United States.

Vodafone announced this morning that it is continuing to monitor developments in the US market and is exploring whether a potential transaction with AT&T Wireless is in the interests of its shareholders.

SHARES in Vodafone Group Plc, the world’s largest cellular operator, fell to an 11-week low on Friday last.

The ISEQ in Dublin closed down 37 points to 5066 as the market failed to recover from a downward trend that emerged at 10am.

MOBILE phone giant Vodafone has remained tightlipped over a report that it is preparing to launch a $30 billion (E24 billion) bid for American mobile giant AT&T Wireless.

Mobile phone giant Vodafone today remained tightlipped over a report that it is preparing to launch a $30bn (€24.2bn) bid for AT&T Wireless.

The third largest wireless network in the US , AT&T Wireless, yesterday formally put itself up for sale.

US telecom giant AT&T has reported an $83m (€65.34) loss for the last quarter of 2003.

Vodafone may be about to launch a bid for US telecoms giant AT&T Wireless - to protect its own interests there.

Japanese mobile operator NTT DoCoMo has announced that it is to write off a significant proportion of its foreign 3G assets following losses incurred on them.

The plummeting value of telecoms stocks has nearly obliterated NTT DoCoMo's profits.

Openet has announced the release of Version 3.0 of its FusionWorks mediation platform.

Openet Telecom has announced the completion of a $20m equity fundraising with Benchmark Capital.

The i-mode wireless internet service will start in the US early next year.

Vodafone is reportedly close to securing a deal that would make it the third largest telecoms operator in Japan.