Vivendi

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• Is Vivendis GTV Deal a Signal on NBC Stake?

  
  DealBook — Authority: 772
  Vivendi said Friday that it had gained control of GVT in a deal that values the Brazilian telecom at about $4.2 billion and gives the French media conglomerate a foothold in Latin Americas biggest market.
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• Comcasts deal with GE for NBC Universal could come this week

  
  DailyFinance — Authority: 797
  Filed under: Company News , Media , General Electric , Comcast Comcast, the nations largest cable company, and General Electric, the giant industrial conglomerate, are finalizing an agreement that would create a new media titan anchored by NBC Universal. The deal would instantly remake the entertainment ...
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• NBC Universal disappoints French partner Vivendi

  
  Blogs - — Authority: 149
  Theyre not exactly shouting "Vive NBC!" within the executive suites of Vivendi these days. Vivendi, the Paris-based media and telecommunications conglomerate that holds a 20% stake in General Electric Co.s NBC Universal, said the U.S. entertainment companys contribution to Vivendi......( read more )
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• NBC Universal disappoints French partner Vivendi

  
  Company Town — Authority: 733
  Theyre not exactly shouting "Vive NBC!" within the executive suites of Vivendi these days. Vivendi, the Paris-based media and telecommunications conglomerate that holds a 20% stake in General Electric Co.s NBC Universal, said the U.S. entertainment companys contribution to Vivendi dropped 27% for the first nine ...
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• "Call of Duty" First-Day Sales Top 4.7M Copies, $310 Million

  
  Digital Media Wire - connecting people & knowledge — Authority: 579
  Santa Monica,Calif. - Video game publisherActivision (NASD: ATVI) , a unit of Vivendi, announced on Thursday that its anticipated "Callof Duty: Modern Warfare 2" game racked up an estimated $310 million infirst-day sales across North America and the U.K. Activision said the gamereceived a record number of ...
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• Vivendi play computer games as Universal profits slide

  
  No Rock And Roll Fun — Authority: 447
  Vivendi had much to be happy about in its latest set of figures, announced today . Helped by its soaring computer games business, it posted profits of €3.58 billion (£3.23 billion) for the nine months to September - that not even counting the money its making right now from Call Of Duty. Universal, though, proved ...
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• The Rise and Fall of the RIAA: HBO

  
  ShareConnector — Authority: 456
  p2pnet news view Movies | RIAA:- The Rise and Fall of the RIAA may soon be immortalised in film. Vivendi Universal, EMI, Warner Music and Sony Music’s once powerful extortion arm is slowly being relegated to obscurity now its sue’ em all campaign has been replaced by the global Three Strikes and You’re Off The ...
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• MPAA staffer joins Obama crew

  
  ShareConnector — Authority: 456
  p2pnet news view Politics | MPAA:- The Department of Justice is loaded to the gills with RIAA adherents, the RIAA being the principal US extortion unit for Vivendi Universal (France), Sony (Japan), EMI (Britain), and Warner Music (US, but controlled by a Canadian). RIAA is, ironically, short for Recording Industry ...
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• Comcast / General Electric / NBC deal looks to be a lock

  
  George S. May Business Blog — Authority: 134
  Comcast may be as little as a week away from buying out a controlling stake in NBC Universal from General Electric. Comcast would take a 51% stake creating a $30 billion joint venture. The deal does also hinge upon part owner Vivendi agreeing to sell its 20% stake in NBC Universal back to GE.The NBC [...]
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• WSJ: Comcast, GE Agree on $30 Billion NBCU Valuation

  
  Digital Media Wire - connecting people & knowledge — Authority: 579
  New York - Comcast (NASD: CMCSA) , the nations largest cable TV provider, hasagreed with General Electric (NYSE: GE) on a valuation of $30 billion for NBC Universal,the film and television company it is seeking to acquire, The Wall StreetJournal reported, citing people familiar with the matter. The sources told ...
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• General Electric and Comcast close in on joint venture

  
  Family: News and advice on family matters children and parents — Authority: 975
  General Electric and Comcast are understood to have agreed to value the pairs proposed entertainment joint venture at 30bn £18bn with a final deal possible within the next two weeks.
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• Comcast, GE near agreement valuing NBC Universal at $30 billion

  
  DailyFinance — Authority: 797
  Filed under: Company News , Media , General Electric , Comcast Comcast ( CMCSA ), the nations largest cable company, and GE ( GE ), the giant industrial conglomerate, are nearing agreement on a deal that would value NBC Universal, the huge entertainment company, at around $30 billion, sources familiar with the ...
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• Report: Comcast and GE Agree on $30B for NBC

  
  NewTeeVee — Authority: 713
  Comcast’s bid to buy NBC Universal from GE has cleared another hurdle — the price point. The two parties have agreed to a $30 billion price tag for the TV and movie company, sources familiar with the matter tell The Wall Street Journal and Reuters . The deal would give the cable network a 51 percent stake in ...
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• Comcast, GE and Kraft await Europe’s pleasure

  
  DealZone — Authority: 524
  The defining deals of the week, Kraft’s now officially hostile bid for Cadbury and a deal to sell a majority stake in NBC Universal to Comcast, hinge on decisions of Europe Inc, so they could well drag on many more weeks. This morning, Kraft formally bid for Cadbury with the same offer mooted two months ago, ...
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• Comcast, GE Agree On NBC Universal Valuation

  
  Progressive News Daily — Authority: 159
  National Public Radio Comcast cleared a hurdle Sunday toward the cable giant buying NBC Universal, General Electric’s TV and film subsidiary. The two companies agreed NBC Universal is worth about $30 billion. Now, they have to convince French media conglomerate Vivendi, which owns 20 percent of NBC Universal, to ...
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• NBC Comcast $30 Bil Deal

  
  Chickaboomer — Authority: 539
  The terms are based on GEs financial performance.  If it gets worse, Comcast could get a better deal.  Reutuers   The deal will be gone over with a fine-toothed government comb similar to the News Corp/DirecTV scrutiny.  Brian Stelter NYT  reports the deal will be the first big test of the Obama media ...
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• It just won’t work…

  
  BANDIT — Authority: 128
  When the mainstream media talks about downloading, they call it two different things. Illegal downloading and (legal) downloading. When you and i talk about it, there is only one name. It covers all options, and we never ask which one it is. When i say that i’ve downloaded Inglorious Basterds , you may very well ...
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• Viacom earnings beat the Street as Comcast, GE near NBC deal

  
  DailyFinance — Authority: 797
  Filed under: Company News , Earnings , General Electric , Viacom , Comcast Viacom ( VIA ), the parent company of MTV, Comedy Central and Paramount, offered an early Christmas present to investors, with a healthy quarterly earnings report driven by increasing advertising revenue and improving profit margins. ...
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• Activison to launch ratings awareness program for parents

  
  Pakistan News | News, Videos, Articles, Current Affairs, Politics, Entertainment, Technology | Geo TV | Dawn | The News | Ten Sports | Geo Super | India News — Authority: 461
  Activision plans to launch the ratings awareness program started by Vivendi in 2008 , which will provide education and information to parents regarding children and the videogames they play. Called The Ratings Are Not a Game , Dr. Cheryl Olson from the Center for Mental Health and Media at Massachusetts General ...
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• Media, tech moguls meet in New York (You are NOT invited)

  
  MediaFile — Authority: 640
  Media and technology executives are meeting today in New York City at a conference hosted by private equity firm Quadrangle. Note the word private. When they meet at the Plaza, they will talk about a ton of different things that their customers, their investors and other readers want to know. I have to apologize for ...
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