Vodafone Group could benefit from a merger with Liberty Global, according to a report in Barron’s, which added the British telecommunications company’s shares could also be poised for a 33% rise.

Verizon Communications agreed to buy Yahoo’s web assets for $4.83bn (€4.39bn), ending the company’s two-decade run as an independent business that took it from Stanford University startup at the dawn of the internet age to also-ran behind nimbler online rivals such as Google and Facebook.

The publisher of Britain’s Daily Mail newspaper is interested in buying Yahoo’s media and news properties and is in talks to join with potential bidders who would carve up the US Internet company.

US stocks tumbled yesterday following a renewed selloff across stocks worldwide as scepticism about the strength of the global economy intensified.

US companies are forecast to cross the Atlantic to raise funds in euro at the fastest pace in at least eight years as borrowing costs in Europe fall below dollar rates by the most in a decade.

VODAFONE is to buy an Italian car electronics maker for €145 million, seeking to get ahead in the race to connect more products to the internet and offset slowing growth in its core mobile phone business.

Better results from retailers and demand for telecommunications shares market helped push the stock market to a small gain yesterday.

Netflix has agreed to pay for more-direct access to Comcast’s broadband network to improve speed and reliability for its video-streaming customers, according to sources.

Vodafone Group Plc completed the biggest sale of the past decade yesterday, leaving the wireless carrier about half the size it was, as chief executive Vittorio Colao embarks on a new expansion strategy.

For US investors, February is starting off even rougher than January.

Telecommunicationsbillionaire Denis O’Brien has ruled out selling shares in Digicel Group Ltd to the public “at the moment”.

Vodafone says it is in advanced talks to sell its 45% stake of Verizon Wireless back to the US mobile phone service provider for $130bn in cash and stock.

The boards of Verizon Communications and Vodafone were expected to vote this weekend on a $130 billion (€98bn) deal, funded by about $65bn (€49bn) of debt, to give the US telecom giant complete ownership of Verizon Wireless.

Positive news on the US economy outweighed worries about Syria, sending the stock market higher for a second straight day.

Thousands of Irish shareholders received a boost yesterday as Vodafone shares hit their highest value in 10 years.

Vodafone has confirmed it is in talks over a deal that will see it exit the United States through one of the largest corporate transactions of all time.

The White House has defended the government’s need to collect telephone records of American citizens, calling such information “a critical tool in protecting the nation from terrorist threats”.

Better-than-expected US jobs figures sent markets higher on both sides of the Atlantic today as investors cheered encouraging signs for the world’s biggest economy.

Speculation over the future of Vodafone’s stake in US mobile phone business Verizon Wireless fuelled a £5bn jump in its share price today.

US stocks fell sharply today, waterlogged from Superstorm Sandy and unmoved by a solid October jobs report.

Google is postponing the market debut of the first computers running on its highly anticipated operating system by about six months to give its engineers more time to fine-tune the software.

Caution returned to Wall Street today as investors gave back some gains from last week’s rally even as they found encouragement from President-elect Barack Obama’s calls for an economic stimulus package

Wall Street had another astounding advance today, with the Dow Jones industrials soaring nearly 900 points in their second-largest point gain ever as late-day bargain hunters stormed into the market.

Wall Street surged today as investors looked past a sharp rebound in oil prices and focused on comforting news about the US economy – better-than-expected retail sales and a drop in the number of laid-off workers seeking unemployment benefits.

President Hugo Chavez warned the US ambassador to Venezuela that he could be asked to leave the country for saying American investors must receive a fair price for their shares of Venezuela’s largest telephone company when it is nationalised.

British stocks declined, paced by Vodafone. The head of Verizon Communications said Vodafone plans to keep its stake in the US telephone company.

The man chosen by US President George Bush to head the CIA will face the toughest test of his 37-year-old government career today when he faces a grilling by politicians over domestic spying operations.

MOBILE phone group Vodafone could sell its stake in its joint venture with Verizon Communications for about $48 billion before the end of the month, according to the Observer newspaper.

BOTH Republicans and Democrats yesterday demanded answers from the Bush administration about a government spy agency secretly collecting records of tens of millions ordinary Americans’ phone calls to build a database of every call made within the country.

Solid earnings from Verizon Communications lifted stocks on Wall Street today, sending the Dow Jones industrial average to its best close in six years even as oil prices neared an all-time high.

A string of positive earnings reports renewed confidence in US stocks today and sent the major indexes sharply higher as investors shook off a steep loss posted by General Motors.

Reassuring words from the Federal Reserve triggered a late-session stock rally in the US, as minutes from the Fed’s March 22 meeting showed it planned to stick with “measured” interest rate hikes, at least in the short term.

Reassuring words from the Federal Reserve triggered a late-session stock rally today, as minutes from the Fed's March 22 meeting showed it planned to stick with "measured" interest rate hikes, at least in the short term.

Modest growth in the gross domestic product and a drop in oil prices gave Wall Street its best day of 2005 today as investors at least temporarily set aside inflation fears and picked up bargains in a heavily sold-off market.

Fresh takeover talk surrounding Allied Domecq failed to keep the FTSE 100 Index in the black today.

US-based telecoms group Verizon Communications today said it was buying MCI, the former collapsed WorldCom group, for $5.3bn (€4bn).

The Dow Jones industrial average moved into positive territory for the year today as investors piled back into the market.

US investors pushed stocks lower today, ending Wall Street’s three-day string of gains.

Oil supply concerns and broker downgrades of blue-chip companies left stocks mixed today, raising doubts that Wall Street’s year-end rally would continue.

A sharp drop in consumer confidence gave US investors another excuse to sell today, sending most stocks moderately lower in what some analysts are starting to call a market correction.

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

Stocks were mixed in New York today as investors sought a direction for the market.

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