Seeking out new revenues, big phone firms at the Mobile World Congress are trying to loosen Google, Amazon and Facebook’s grip, write Eric Auchard and Sophie Sassard.

Even though it isn’t officially out there yet, over 1m people are playing the game in Russia, writes Ilya Khrennikov

Denis O’Brien’s Digicel Group is, reportedly, among the bidders for Italian assets being sold to accommodate the merger of the Italy-based operations of Dutch telco VimpelCom and Hong Kong giant, CK Hutchison Holdings.

VimpelCom, a leading provider of wireless telecoms services in Russia and the Commonwealth of Independent States, announced yesterday that it has chosen Cork-based Selatra to provide an enhanced Java games service which is expected to increase the company’s mobile games revenues.