(ROME)Telecom Italia SpA said Friday that first-half net profit fell 24 percent from a year earlier due to restructuring costs and increased competition in Brazil and Germany.READ MORE

(MILAN, Italy)Telecom Italia will cut 5,000 jobs by 2010, mostly through the combination of its fixed and mobile units, Chief Executive Franco Bernabe said in an interview published Thursday.READ MORE

(STOCKHOLM, Sweden)TeliaSonera AB has agreed to sell Apple Inc.'s iPhone in Sweden, Norway, Denmark, Finland, Lithuania, Latvia and Estonia, the Nordic telecom operator said Tuesday.READ MORE

(NEW YORK)U.S.-traded shares of European companies headed higher Thursday, with the top gainers including wireless companies Telecom Italia SpA and Vodafone Group PLC.READ MORE

(PARIS)French wireless operator Orange said Friday it has signed a deal with Apple Inc. to sell its iPhone in the Middle East, Africa and several European countries.READ MORE

(SAN FRANCISCO)Apple Inc. said Monday its online stores in the U.S. and U.K. are sold out of the iPhone, a sign supplies are being winnowed ahead of the launch of the device's next generatio...READ MORE

(SAN FRANCISCO)In another step in the worldwide march of Apple Inc.'s iPhone, the top mobile phone operator in Latin America said Wednesday that it has inked a deal to bring the multimedia ga...READ MORE