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Vivendi SA Chairman Jean-Rene Fourtou pledged a full strategy review to convince investors the telecommunications-to-media company can see through asset sales to refocus its business a year after first saying he’d do so.
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Mediaset SpA shares rose the most in a month after the broadcaster controlled by former Italian Prime Minister Silvio Berlusconi reported sales that beat analysts’ estimates and said it was ahead of cost-cut targets.
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Rupert Murdoch said last week he regretted the 1994 initial public offering of British Sky Broadcasting Group Plc, which reduced News Corp.’s control. Now its remaining 39 percent holding in the U.K.’s biggest pay-TV company may be slipping further from his grasp.
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Activision Blizzard Inc., the video- game company put on the block by majority shareholder Vivendi SA, gave Co-Chairman Brian Kelly a new contract that pays him a bonus of $15 million or more if the company gets bought.
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For potential bidders circling EMI Group Ltd., the takeover of Warner Music Group Corp. may have doubled the price tag for the money-losing music label that was seized by its creditor just six months ago.
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Pearson Plc agreed to combine its Penguin unit with Bertelsmann SE’s Random House to create by far the largest book publisher in the U.K. and the U.S.
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When top advertising executives gather this week at the Cannes Lions festival in France, the focus of the discussion will be far away from the yachts and luxury hotels of the Cote d’Azur.
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Vivendi SA, the French company seeking buyers for telecommunications assets to refocus on media businesses, will bide its time on divesting the phone divisions in Brazil and Morocco.
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Hank Asher -- high school dropout, cyber pioneer, friend to law enforcers, enemy to child predators, nemesis of privacy advocates, ex-cocaine smuggler -- is back in the business of finding almost everything that’s known about anyone in the U.S.
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Vodafone Group Plc sees Vivendi SA’s proposed ceiling of about 6 billion pounds ($9.7 billion) for its stake in French mobile operator SFR as too low, according to a person familiar with the situation.
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