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Amy Thomson

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The famously staid and risk averse auto insurance industry is slowly finding ways to use new types of data analysis to help it make decisions about who to cover.

How’s your driving? If you use an app insurers could be watching

4 min read . 12 Dec 2019

Vodafone said preparing to appoint India IPO banks in early 2016

2 min read . 27 Oct 2015

Samsung unveils Galaxy S6 Edge Plus, Note 5

2 min read . 13 Aug 2015

Bharti sold phone-tower operating businesses in five African countries for more than $1.3 billion earlier this month, helping it reduce debt and cut costs. Photo: Pradeep Gaur/Mint

Orange in talks to buy four Bharti Airtel businesses in Africa

1 min read . 21 Jul 2015

The Indian unit, which has more than 180 million customers, accounts for 10% of Vodafone’s total revenue. Photo: Hemant Mishra/Mint

Vodafone said to explore IPO for its India unit

1 min read . 27 May 2015

Vodafone’s ratio of net debt to earnings before interest, taxes, depreciation and amortization will be about 2.2 for the fiscal year that ended in March, broadly in line with its peers, according to RBC. Photo: Hemant Mishra/Mint

Vodafone’s $4 billion tab for airwaves endangers ratings

3 min read . 07 Apr 2015

Samsung Electronics president and CEO J.K. Shin presents the Samsung Galaxy S6 during the 2015 Mobile World Congress in Barcelona on Sunday. Photo: AFP (AFP)

Samsung unveils S6 phones, mobile wallet to challenge Apple

2 min read . 01 Mar 2015

BT rose 2.8% to 434.7 pence at 8:11 am in London. The stock has gained more than 10% in the past 12 months. Photo: AFP

BT agrees to buy UK wireless carrier EE for $19 billion

3 min read . 05 Feb 2015

Apple decided to revamp its music lineup last year with the $3 billion purchase of Beats Electronics. Photo:

Apple acquires British startup Semetric to add music analytics

1 min read . 22 Jan 2015

Hutchison may buy O2 in UK from Telefonica, says report

1 min read . 19 Jan 2015

The acquisition is expected to be completed by the end of summer 2015. It will add to earnings per share in fiscal 2016, the first full year after the companies combine, Qualcomm said. Photo: Bloomberg

Qualcomm agrees to buy UK chip maker CSR for $2.5 billion

2 min read . 15 Oct 2014

Twitter has suspended a number of accounts related to the incident, Del Harvey, vice-president of trust and safety for the San Francisco-based company. Photo: AFP

Twitter reviews policies after Robin Williams’s daughter abused

1 min read . 14 Aug 2014

Service revenue fell 4.2% in the first quarter ending in June, Vodafone said in a statement. Photo: Bloomberg

Vodafone sales drop as southern Europe hurts turnaround efforts

2 min read . 25 Jul 2014

The hackers, also called Dragonfly, appear to have the resources, size and organization that suggest government involvement, security company Symantec says. Photo: iStockphoto

Symantec warns ‘Energetic Bear’ hackers target energy firms

2 min read . 01 Jul 2014

Vodafone said 29 governments from Albania to the UK asked for access to its network or user data, with requests ranging from intercepting calls to accessing data and Web-browsing records. Photo: Mint

Vodafone privacy disclosures spurs other carriers to follow

3 min read . 09 Jun 2014

Vodacom, which said in September it had started exclusive talks to buy Neotel, is expanding in data services to offset declining revenue from its domestic voice division.

Vodacom said to discuss final details with Tata for Neotel deal

1 min read . 03 Apr 2014

Photo: Bloomberg

Vodafone said to raise offer for Ono to $9.7 billion before IPO

1 min read . 08 Mar 2014

Microsoft’s former chief executive officer Steve Ballmer. Photo: HT

Steve Ballmer says Microsoft a ‘two-trick pony,’ working on third

2 min read . 05 Mar 2014

Peter Chou, chief executive officer of HTC Corp., unveils the new HTC Desire 816 smartphone at the Mobile World Congress in Barcelona, Spain, on Monday. Photo: Simon Dawson/Bloomberg

HTC unveils Desire 816 to chase growth in cheaper smartphones

1 min read . 25 Feb 2014

The deal will help Vodafone pay off debt and help fund £7 billion of additional network investments by March 2016, adding high-speed broadband and wireless coverage across its largest markets. Photo: Bloomberg

Verizon sale cuts Vodafone’s value by half to $100 billion

2 min read . 22 Feb 2014

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