All of which suggests that there is no easy way out for Vivendi Universal.
For example, on Thursday, Yahoo said it had joined an alliance between Vivendi Universal and Sony.
Vivendi Universal may be falling apart, but Mr Parsons believes that AOL Time Warner will continue to expand.
Davis stayed in the limelight with dozens of takeover bids for the likes of CBS, United Airlines and Vivendi Universal.
Despite his dissatisfaction with the transatlantic marriage called Vivendi Universal, Edgar Bronfman Jr. has not lost his taste for Europe.
Shares of Vivendi Universal (nyse: V - news - people)--another merger-mad media company--have fared almost as poorly.
Syfy has been looking for a way into film for years, ever since NBC merged with Vivendi Universal Entertainment in 2004.
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Chris Miller, whose history includes a VP gig at Vivendi Universal and an executive producer credit on the video games F.
With AOL Time Warner and Vivendi Universal both faltering, it's clear the investment community has lost its faith in their entertainment and technology convergence strategies.
The music of Vivendi Universal and Sony Music will be available - for a fee - through the Yahoo website, the world's most widely used portal.
Before launching OUYA, she held several executive roles with video game companies such as GameFly, IGN (where she led digital distribution and business development) and Vivendi Universal.
Acquisitions include French media conglomerate Vivendi Universal, which GE folded into its NBC Universal unit, along with diagnostic imaging company Amersham and natural gas systems supplier Vector Gray.
Vivendi Universal is a good example: Thomson First Call shows 14 analysts keeping tabs on the shares traded in Paris, but only one analyst tracking the U.S.-traded Vivendi ADR.
Nobody, in her view, personifies the supremely self-confident, narcissistic type better than Jean-Marie Messier, the former head of Vivendi Universal, who steered the one-time media giant close to bankruptcy in 2002.
The U.S. entertainment assets of Vivendi Universal are attracting interest from a wider list of firms, including Liberty Media, Metro-Goldwyn-Mayer, and GE's NBC division, the Wall Street Journal Europe reported on Monday.
His stint lasted for a year and a half, until his cousin engineered a sale of the company to Vivendi Universal, a former water company that bought its way into the record and film business.
And France's leading media firm Vivendi Universal lost 25% of its value on Tuesday and a further 22% on Wednesday, after a French newspaper claimed it had tried - but failed - to fiddle the books.
The interview with the press-shy founder of Island Records (the label that brought you Bob Marley, U2, Traffic and Cat Stevens and is now part of Vivendi Universal 's giant Universal Music Group) had more than a few uncomfortable pauses.
"Vivendi Universal considers this sudden withdrawal to have been motivated by Deutsche Telekom's wish to appropriate the shares of PTC at the lowest possible cost, using methods which Vivendi regards as unlawful, " said a statement on the media group's website.
Users won't be able to snag music from the best-known names in music, because none of the major music companies, like Vivendi Universal 's Universal Music Group or Warner Music Group, are letting their stuff be used on the service.
Jean-Marie Messier Jean-Marie Messier , former chief executive of media giant Vivendi Universal who was tossed into the Paris gutters last month, is nursing his wounds in a holiday exile by the Mediterranean, there to write a book about his downfall, Le Parisien reported on Friday.
His stint lasted for a year and a half, until his cousin engineered a sale of the company to Vivendi Universal (nyse: V - news - people ), a former water company that bought its way into the record and film business.
The interview with the press-shy founder of Island Records (the label that brought you Bob Marley, U2, Traffic and Cat Stevens and is now part of Vivendi Universal 's (nyse: V - news - people ) giant Universal Music Group) had more than a few uncomfortable pauses.
On the other hand, one might also want to consider that in September, Baidu's music accessibility got slammed by a quadumvirate of Warner Music Group, Vivendi Universal 's Universal Music Group, EMI Group and Sony BMG (half-owned by Sony), which all filed suits against the Chinese e-commerce firm (see: " Bronfman Leads Music Bigs In Baidu Piracy Lawsuit").
Users won't be able to snag music from the best-known names in music, because none of the major music companies, like Vivendi Universal 's (nyse: V - news - people ) Universal Music Group or Warner Music Group (nyse: WMG - news - people ), are letting their stuff be used on the service.
Big music companies like Vivendi's Universal Music Group, Sony-BMG Music Entertainment, Warner Music Group and EMI Group are already experiencing a sharp decline in sales of compact discs.
The union, which puts artists ranging from Aerosmith to Britney Spears all under one roof, made Sony BMG the No. 2 record company in the world, just behind Vivendi 's Universal Music Group .
It seems that if Vivendi lands the Universal studio and music business it is after, it will inherit a one-time writedown on studio assets, which will have the effect of boosting reported earnings in future years.
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