Sector: Telecommunications

Vodafone lowered a medium-term sales growth target for revenue growth on Tuesday as consumers in southern Europe slashed spending and regulators upped the pressure on the world's largest mobile operator.

Baidu, China's largest search engine, will launch a new smartphone partnership next week, that will see the smartphone use an upgraded version of its mobile operating system, a senior company executive said on Friday.

Robust performances by Singapore Telecommunications Ltd's units in Indonesia and Thailand helped Southeast Asia's largest telecoms firm reverse four straight quarters of falling year-on-year profits.

China's Shanghai Composite is expected to trade higher on Monday despite the slide in global markets on Friday. But expected economic data, as well as the imminent launch of the biggest Chinese initial public offering this year, may sway the case for caution.

Optus, the Australian unit of Singapore Telecommunications, said on Wednesday it would cut up to 750 jobs for a one-off cost of about A$37 million ($38 million) as part of a restructuring.

Alcatel-Lucent Chief Executive Ben Verwaayen blamed “more volatility” than usual for the telecoms company’s disappointing first-quarter results.

The online-travel site's stock has shot up 57% this year but in order to keep investors coming back, the company has to hit the ground running in its new battlefield — mobile bookings. The CEO will outline his plan on CNBC's "Squawk on the Street" on Thursday.

Vodafone threatened the Indian government with arbitration proceedings on Tuesday in a fight over retrospective tax proposals which could cost the British company dear and undermine wider foreign investment in the country.

BlackBerry maker RIM has gone beyond the tipping point for launching a successful fight back against Apple’s iPhone, but new CEO Thorsten Heins could offer the company some hope, Tim Daniels, TMT Sector Strategist at Olivetree Securities told CNBC.

ZTE Corp, China's second-largest telecommunications equipment maker, said it will "curtail" its business in Iran following a report that it had sold Iran a powerful surveillance system capable of monitoring telephone and Internet.

The undersea cable unit of India's Reliance Communications, has applied to list in Singapore, two sources with direct knowledge of the matter said, a move that could raise $1 billion to help its parent company pare a heavy debt burden.

Samsung Electronics said on Thursday a Dutch court rejected its 3G patent bid to ban sales of Apple's iPhone and iPad in the Netherlands.

More than 25 billion apps have been downloaded from Apple’s App Store, the company has announced, in a milestone that highlights the shift to a new model for computing, digital content, software and the web. The FT reports.

The scandal convulsing the telecoms market threatens to deter foreign companies from investing in India and could call into question the business case for expanding into emerging markets in general.

Telstra, Australia's top phone company, cleared the last hurdle to an agreement to hand over its copper network to the government for $12 billion, winning approval from Australia's competition watchdog for the plan.