Irish start-up Anam Technologies has teamed up with one of India’s largest telecom companies to tackle revenue loss and fraud.

A hacker group has claimed to have obtained personal data from 12m Apple iPhone and iPad users by breaching an FBI computer, raising concerns about US government tracking.

Mobile phone giant Vodafone said today that it had agreed to buy ailing telecoms group Cable & Wireless Worldwide for £1.04bn (€1.27bn).

World markets wallowed in the red today as investor confidence was hit by fears over slowing growth in Asian powerhouse China.

London’s leading shares index struggled to find direction today as downbeat housing data in both China and the US saw the recent upbeat mood stutter.