Canal+ Buying Broadcaster To Defend Against Online Upstarts
Vivendi’s pay TV arm Canal+ is to acquire Vincent Bollore’s free-to-air television business in a €465m (£404m) deal, a move the company s…
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Vodafone Sells 44 Percent SFR Stake To Vivendi For £6.8 Billion. VZW Next?
At last, an end to Vodafone’s French saga, and another chapter in the mobile operator’s continuing sell-off of assets that it does not contr…
Activision Blizzard Games Push Up Vivendi’s Forecast
French media conglomerate Vivendi (EPA: VIV) is upping its 2010 revenue forecast, after seeing first-half income up 6.1 percent from last ye…
Comcast, GE Officially Announce Joint Venture
Comcast (s CMCSA) and GE (s GE) officially announced a deal this morning that will merge the entertainment properties of the cable…
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GE-Comcast Hope To Announce $30 Billion Deal For NBCU Thursday; Then The Real Fun Begins
General Electric (NYSE: GE) is playing beat the clock tonight with two different deals, hoping to announce before the U.S. market opens Thur…
Reports: Vivendi-GE Reach Tentative Agreement On NBCU Sale
The companies aren’t commenting but it sounds like Vivendi (EPA: VIV) and General Electric may have reached an agreement that will pave the…
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Vivendi Snaps Up More Of France’s Canal+ As NBCU Price Talks Continue
Vivendi (EPA: VIV) may not be able be able to agree a price to offload its 20 percent stake in the NBCU JV — but at home, the French multim…
Comcast So Very Close To NBCU Deal; Vivendi Talks Still Continuing
Comcast (NSDQ: CMCSA) is very close to sealing the NBC Universal (NYSE: GE) majority-stake deal, and an announcement could be made by next w…
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Vivendi CEO Sees NBCU IPO As An Option
Vivendi (EPA: VIV) would be amenable to a flotation of NBCU Universal on the NYSE, as possible future configurations for the TV JV work thei…
Updated: Is The Vivendi-GE-NBC Universal-Comcast Deal $500 Million Away?
The complex potential deal to transform GE’s 80-20 partnership with Vivendi (EPA: VIV) into a 49 percent stake in a programming merger with…
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Earnings: Vivendi’s Mergers Help Q1 Revenue Jump 23 Percent
Music, games and TV group Vivendi (EPA: VIV) says it can continue its impressive Q109 performance through 2009, despite the bulk of extra r…
French Music Tech Developer MX4P Gets
Online music player developer MXP4 is the latest start-up to win precious VC funding, with a
Industry Moves: Vivendi CEO Lévy To Chair Game Maker Activision Blizzard
Vivendi (EPA: VIV) CEO Jean-Bernard Lévy is to chair Call Of Duty and Guitar Hero game publisher Activision (NSDQ: ATVI) Blizzard’s board,…
Music Roundup: Muzu; Universal-RTL
— Muzu: Irish video-sharing site Muzu has partnered with online ad sales house eType to step up its display and video-ad revenues. The deal…
Earnings: Vivendi Finds Money In Music, NBCU Drags, 'Record' Games Profit
French multimedia conglomerate Vivendi (EPA: VIV) scored
Vivendi Writing Down NBCU Value; Sell-Off Option Still Unclear
Vivendi (EPA: VIV) is reducing the book value of its 20 percent stake in the NBC Universal (NYSE: GE) joint venture. The French conglomerate…
Vivendi Games Mobile Europe Shut Down
Vivendi (EPA: VIV) Games Mobile Europe is no more. Mobile Entertainment reports that European partners have received
Vivendi CEO: No Decision Yet On Whether To Sell Stake In NBCU; GE’s Immelt: ‘Would Buy In Heartbeat’
Vivendi (EPA: VIV) SA has yet to decide whether it will keep its 20 percent stake in NBC Universal or exercise its annual option to sell, CE…
GE’s Immelt: ‘Some Opportunities In Media Consolidation’
Jeffrey Immelt’s latest tack to convince people that NBC Universal (NYSE: GE) parent General Electric is staying in the media business — ta…
Earnings: Vivendi’s H1 Revs up; Universal Music’s Digital Revs Up 33 Percent
Vivendi (EPA: VIV), the France-based media giant and parent of Universal Music Group, has reported its first half 2008 and Q208 earnings, an…
BT Vision Adds Universal Pictures VoD Service PictureBox
BT’s (NYSE: BT) living room IPTV platform is adding PictureBox, Universal Pictures’ premium on-demand movie subscription service, to its box…
Social Network Marketing Initiatives Boost Vivendi Games Mobile’s Surviving High School
Vivendi (EPA: VIV) Games Mobile announced that its original episodic mobile game franchise Surviving High School–a story-driven simulation…
Vivendi Tries More Online Games Through Broadband Unit
In which universe would an ISP launch a massively-multiplayer online game (MMPOG)? In the French universe. Neuf Cegetel last night unveiled…
Universal Knuckling Down On Mobile, TV With Joseph UK Promotion
Vivendi’s (EPA: VIV) Universal Music CEO Lucian Grainge is reportedly aiming to develop better relations with mobile and TV companies by pro…
Second Time Lucky? Vivendi Formally Introduces Mobile Portal Zaoza
French media and telecoms giant Vivendi (EPA: VIV) has commercially launched its previously announced entertainment portal Zaoza today, whic…
Vivendi: Q4 Revs Up 8.5 Percent; UMG Slides 3.1 Percent; Digital Music Up 54 Percent
Media conglomerate Vivendi (EPA: VIV) has released preliminary Q407 data showing revenue of
Vivendi In Talks To Buy Remaining Part Of French Carrier Neuf Cegetel
Vivendi (EPA: VIV) is in talks to acquire the remaining part of French telecom provider Neuf Cegetel it doesn’t own, according to a statemen…
Music Royalty Reform Delays ‘Hold Back’ Labels; A DRM-Free Price War
Music companies want Europe to overhaul its music licensing systems to better cope with digital distribution – but the European Commission h…
Vivendi’s Portal Zaoza To Launch Jan: France, Then UK and Germany
Vivendi, (EPA: VIV) which announced its strangely-named portal last week, has now announced that Zaoza will launch in January, and the site…
Earnings: Vivendi Plans Entertainment Portal; Universal Slides Despite Digital Doubling
Vivendi (EPA: VIV) will this week test a “content and services platform” website that, whilst secretive, could be a direct-to-consumer onlin…
NBCU International Digital Restructure Emphasises Direct Downloads; Vivendi Looks Beyond Apple
NBC Universal (NYSE: GE) International is shaking up its digital focus with a restructure that splits operations along two new lines (see re…
