Shares of Italian broadband operator Tiscali jumped 10% on Tuesday after a report that Britain’s Vodafone Group could bid for the company. The cellphone company would make a bid in the next 24 hours to buy all of Tiscali, Italian daily MF reported, citing sources close to Vodafone.
Juventus have lodged an appeal with a civil court to overturn their relegation for match-fixing despite a threat of extra sanctions from Italy’s football federation, a spokesperson for the club said on Thursday. A soccer tribunal ruling on the match-fixing scandal in July stripped Juve of their last two Italian titles and demoted them to the second division.