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Challenges Ahead for Vivendi's New CEO A water utility that tried to transform itself into a global media powerhouse, Vivendi and new CEO Jean-Rene Fourtou are in a life-threatening struggle for survival.   |
Wired
December 2000 |
Play by Play The European wireless wars at a glance... |
BusinessWeek
September 19, 2005
Matlack & Grover |
Vivendi's New Vitality Three years after Messier, it's cashing in on his media vision. The Paris company is now in pole position to capitalize on the rapid spread of digitized entertainment. But if Vivendi is admired for its creativity, investors remain perplexed by its overall corporate vision. |
AskMen.com
July 29, 2002
Ash Karbasfrooshan |
Business Survival: Culture Is Key Jean-Marie Messier's downfall is a great lesson for young professionals, because the world around us is changing and we are expected to lead that metamorphosis. |
Wired
April 2003
Frank Rose |
Barry Diller Has No Vision for the Future of the Internet. That's why the no-nonsense honcho of Home Shopping Network, Match.com, and Universal is poised to rule the interactive world. |
Salon.com
June 22, 2000
Mark Hunter |
Letter from France Le Grand Fromage: What the French think of Jean-Marie Messier, France's new king of content. |
BusinessWeek
December 20, 2004 |
More Trouble For Vivendi's Ex-CEO France's stock market regulator fined Vivendi Universal and its former chief executive officer, Jean-Marie Messier, $1.3 million each for misleading shareholders from 2000 to 2002. |
Salon.com
June 22, 2000
Gregg Kilday |
Parlez-vous Universal? French media giant Vivendi takes over Universal Pictures. Cue the Jerry Lewis flicks? |
BusinessWeek
August 25, 2003
Kerry Capell |
Where Does Vodafone Go for Growth? New boss Arun Sarin can't gobble rivals like Chris Gent did |
Wired
March 2002
Frank Rose |
Big Media or Bust As consolidation sweeps the content and telecom industries, FCC merger maniac Michael Powell has a plan: Let's roll... |
The Motley Fool
June 22, 2004
Tim Beyers |
Two of Hearts Broken Former Vivendi CEO Jean-Marie Messier spends the night in a French jail. Messier is notorious for trying to transform a staid, 150-year-old French water utility into a global media giant. |
Wired
June 2000
Christopher Dickey |
GO TO: Paris 14 startups, 130 people, and $20 million in a former circus northeast of the Seine - and that's just one incubateur. The post-Minitel generation comes of age. |
BusinessWeek
April 25, 2005
Andy Reinhardt |
Europe's Dealmakers Are Dialing Again The post-bubble telecom doldrums are in the past, and Europewide consolidation is all the rage. |
The Motley Fool
May 17, 2006
Stephen D. Simpson |
Vivendi Turns a Deaf Ear to Complaints Staying whole might be the right move, but Vivendi management will have to prove it. Investors, don't forget that the stock is up by a mid-teens percentage for the past year and well off the lows of mid-2002. |
BusinessWeek
June 7, 2004
Kerry Capell |
Vodafone: Is The Shine Wearing Off? As Europe's cellular market matures, investors worry growth is starting to slow. |
| Knowledge@Wharton |
The Mega-media Business Model: Doomed to Fail, or Just Ahead of its Time? Today's mega-media companies -- AOL Time Warner, Viacom, Vivendi, Disney, Bertelsmann, Sony -- may not be tomorrow's. While they all became behemoths because of past mergers among big media companies, it's very likely some of them will change into different entities. |
The Motley Fool
September 14, 2005
Stephen D. Simpson |
Joie de Vivendi An eclectic mix proves lucrative for this French media giant. The stock market can certainly be forgiving if investors believe the company is back on the right track. |
BusinessWeek
May 22, 2006 |
Facing The Digital Music Warner Music Group's Edgar Bronfman talks about what's ahead for the music industry. |
BusinessWeek
January 12, 2004 |
Second Acts A $2.6 billion purchase of Warner Music Group by Bronfman and a group of investors may give him a shot at redemption. |
The Motley Fool
May 12, 2004
Nathan Slaughter |
Say Hello to NBC Universal NBC officially completed its merger today with Vivendi's VUE. |
Home Theater
October 5, 2009
Mark Fleischmann |
Will Comcast Merge with NBC? Cable operator's acquisition of venerable broadcast network would make waves. |
CFO
December 1, 2003
Roy Harris |
Lights! Camera! Action! Buying Universal puts GE in the movie business. Its plan for synergies might make a good screenplay. |
The Motley Fool
September 14, 2004
Seth Jayson |
Vivendi Flashes V for Victory Operating income was up 6.6% for the quarter and 8.8% for the first half of the year, which is not too bad given the recent operating unit divestitures, including Universal. |
InternetNews
February 14, 2006
Susan Kuchinskas |
Vodafone Adds Google Search Vodafone announced that it's working with Google to develop mobile search services for its subscribers. |
InternetNews
November 7, 2008
Susan Kuchinskas |
The Future of Music in the Web 2.0 Era MySpace and Warner Music Group partnership could be the shape of digital music to come. |
BusinessWeek
August 8, 2005 |
Edgar Bronfman, on the Record Warner Music Group's CEO discusses why it was the right time to go public, the myth of his search for redemption, and Vivendi under Messier. |
The Motley Fool
December 11, 2006
Will Frankenhoff |
Time to Answer the Vodafone 3G services should spur this UK-based mobile behemoth's growth in 2007. At a recent price of $27 per ADS, Vodafone currently trades at roughly 12 times forward earnings estimates of $2.16 per share. |
The Motley Fool
July 30, 2011
Cliff D'Arcy |
Vodafone's Massive Giveaway Next February, the telecom giant's owners will share a very special dividend. |
BusinessWeek
July 8, 2010
Jesse Kornbluth |
Bronfman's Redemption Song Fortune's Fool: Edgar Bronfman Jr., Warner Music, and an Industry in Crisis, by Fred Goodman, discusses what Edgar Bronfman Jr., scion of the Seagram liquor empire, doing as the CEO of Warner Music Group. |
The Motley Fool
May 7, 2011
Cliff D'Arcy |
4 Big Takeovers That Went Very Wrong Mergers often enhance shareholder value, but these proved to be real stinkers. |
InternetNews
December 30, 2003
Colin Haley |
Vodafone Taps FAST for Mobile Search The mobile telecom will use the search firm's technology to deliver better results on its consumer service. |
BusinessWeek
January 12, 2004 |
Bob Wright The merger of NBC and Vivendi Universal, expected to close in the first half of 2004, is a defining event in Wright's 17 years as NBC chief. |
The Motley Fool
March 2, 2004
Dave Marino-Nachison |
Warner Music Prepares for Cuts A published report confirms suspicions that many music jobs are at risk. |
The Motley Fool
August 29, 2006
Alyce Lomax |
Musical Chairs From AOL, Vivendi More companies are jockeying for position in music, but can they take on iTunes and piracy? |
Knowledge@Wharton
May 21, 2003 |
Ignoring Your Corporate Identity Can Sabotage Strategic Change Identity is a crucial component of all firms, but it often goes ignored until a crisis forces a company to confront change. |
InternetNews
March 17, 2006
Ed Sutherland |
Softbank Buys Vodafone Japan For $15B Citing reduced prospects, mobile phone giant Vodafone today announced the $15.4 billion sale of its troubled Japan unit to Softbank. Japan's Softbank already owns two mobile phone carriers. |
InternetNews
October 24, 2006
Ed Sutherland |
T-Mobile Hit With RICO Charges Using the Racketeer Influenced and Corrupt Organizations law, French telecom and entertainment giant Vivendi filed suit Monday against T-Mobile, the U.S. unit of its long-time German rival Deutsche Telecom. |
IEEE Spectrum
July 2007
Prevelakis & Spinellis |
The Athens Affair How some extremely smart hackers pulled off the most audacious cell-network break-in ever. |
The Motley Fool
July 22, 2011
Alan Oscroft |
Vodafone Sees Strong Emerging Markets Growth Vodafone may be the world's biggest mobile phone operator, but that hasn't immunized it against the economic woes besetting some of Europe's struggling economies. |
The Motley Fool
June 18, 2011
Cliff D'Arcy |
Vodafone's 7 Billion-Pound Cash Pile What will the telecom giant do with all that money? Buy shares, of course! |
The Motley Fool
June 21, 2004
Ben McClure |
Lost in Translation Setbacks in Japan shouldn't blur Vodafone's rosy prospects. |
