PARIS AFP ? The US-based broadband communications company UnitedGlobalCom is to acquire the French cable operator Noos from utilities group Suez for between 508 and 660 million euros (621 and 807 million dollars), UBG and Suez revealed. As part of the deal Suez will receive a 20 percent stake...
UnitedGlobalCom Inc., the Denver-based international cable operator controlled by Liberty Media Corp., said it received a delisting notice from the NASDAQ stock market after its share price dipped below $3 apiece. UGC said it would appeal the UnitedGlobalCom...
BUTTERFLY'S TONGUE (15, Jose Luis Cuerda, 95 mins, right) Drama set in Galicia in 1936, a few months before the Spanish Civil War. Manuel Lozano plays an eight-year-old boy whose love of learning, fostered by a friendship with an elderly teacher, is poisoned by hints of the...
Merger most foul The $115 billion telecoms merger between America's WorldCom and Sprint looked dead after the American Justice Department sued to block the deal and the companies withdrew their proposal from the European Commission before it was blocked officially. The Justice Department...
BATTLEFIELD EARTH (12, Roger Christian, 117 mins) John Travolta plays a seven-foot alien with tubes up his nose, busy crushing the life out of the last remnants of mankind. Cue rebellious Barry Pepper. A turkey of genetically modified proportions. West End: ABC Shaftesbury Avenue,...
THE CITY LA CIUDAD (NC, David Riker, 88 mins, right) Excoriating portrait of Mexican immigrants struggling to survive in New York. Repertory: ICA Cinema DEUCE BIGALOW: MALE GIGOLO (15, Mike Mitchell, 88 mins) Rob Schneider's aquarium cleaner takes...
PARIS -- Thomson (Euronext:18453)(NYSE:TMS) today announced that it had been chosen as one of the key vendors and leading technology partners by UnitedGlobalCom, Inc. UGC (Nasdaq:UCOMA), for its plans for an accelerated rollout of digital television to UPC Broadband's analog cable subscribers in the Netherlands.
NEW YORK -- JupiterResearch, a leading authority on the impact of the Internet and emerging consumer technologies on business, reports nearly half (49 percent) of online users have engaged with user-generated content UGC in the past month by actively creating or simply reading material posted by others. In a study...
Faced with the potential bondholder rejection of a proposed $4.02 billion merger with Liberty Media Corp., UnitedGiobalCom Inc. has opted for plan B. Liberty and UGC agreed last year to a merger that would give Liberty an 82-percent voting st ...
VIVENDI, the acquisitive French utilities and entertainment giant, yesterday increased its UK presence following a pounds 215m deal to buy Virgin's chain of cinemas in the UK and Ireland. The 35-strong chain is being bought from the Virgin Entertainment Group by UCG, a leading European cinema group...
John Malone offered a less-than-ringing endorsement of efforts to keep the struggling Voom-branded satellite-TV service afloat, saying last week he wouldn't put his own money into a third satellite competitor. Malone, recently named by Cablev John Malone offered...
SAN FRANCISCO -- OpenTV, Inc. ("OpenTV") (Nasdaq:OPTV), one of the world's leading interactive television companies, today announced that it signed a multi-year network license agreement with Europe's largest cable operator, UnitedGlobalCom, Inc. ("UGC") (Nasdaq:UCOMA), allowing UGC affiliates in Europe to deploy OpenTV middleware and other products and applications.
Less than a month after UnitedGlobalCom Inc. offered to tender shares of its former Dutch cable subsidiary UGC Europe, shareholders of UGC Europe have lined up against the proposed sale. Last Monday, a special committee of UGC Europe's board o ...
SALTAIRE, England -- Pace Micro Technology (PIC.L) the leading dedicated innovator of technology solutions for the payTV industry, today announced that UnitedGlobalCom, Inc. UGC (NASDAQ: UCOMA) has chosen Pace as one of its key vendors for its plans for an accelerated rollout of digital television to UPC Broadband's analogue cable...
After 17 months and at least three deal revisions, Liberty Media Corp. and UnitedGlobalCom have reached an agreement where Liberty would significantly increase its stake in the European cable operator. But while the UGC deal appears to be on t ...
Liberty Media Corp. chairman John Malone bailed out longtime friend and associate Gene Schneider earlier this month with a $5.1 million loan to help the UnitedGlobalCom founder and chairman cover margin calls. Margin calls typically occur afte Liberty Media...
Liberty Media Corp. again adjusted its pending purchase of 76 percent of UnitedGlobalCom Inc., agreeing to increase the price it will pay for UGC bonds by 44 percent. The two parties have gone back and forth over the acquisition for more...
Hicks Muse Tate & Furst, Liberty Media, and UnitedGlobalCom have decided to unit its Latin American subscription television operations, that include in Argentina CableVision, Pramer, and a stake in TyC Torneos y Competencias. The future subsidi Hicks Muse Tate & Furst, Liberty Media, and UnitedGlobalCom ...
CALGARY, Nov. 18 /PRNewswire-FirstCall/ -- (TSX - COS.UN) - Canadian Oil Sands Trust ("Canadian Oil Sands", or the "Trust") today announced that the Syncrude joint venture owners have elected their pre-existing option to convert to a bitumen-based royalty. Effective January 1, 2009 and consistent with the rest of the...
NEW YORK -- On November 10 Fitch Ratings affirmed the 'A' long-term Issuer Default Rating IDR of United Guaranty Corp. UGC, the 'AA-' insurer financial strength IFS rating of United Guaranty Residential Insurance Company UGRIC, and the 'A' IFS rating of Ezer Mortgage Insurance Company Ltd. EMI. All of the...
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