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• Vivendi Profits Rise On Acti-Blizz Games Success: Call Of Duty 'Biggest Entertainment Launch Ever'

  PaidContent - 2009-11-12

  Activision’s Call of Duty: Modern Warfare 2 grossed more than $300 million in sales in its first 24 hours just in the US and the UK, making it not just the biggest video game launch of the year, but the biggest entertainment launch, in any medium, ever. That most...

  Tags: Revenue, Vivendi Universal, Entertainment, Operational Accounting, Finance, Gaming, Media & Publishing, TV, Broadcast, Money, Earnings, Companies, Vivendi, Universal Music Group, Patrick Smith

• Earnings: Vivendi H1 Up On Games, Digital Music Growth

  PaidContent - 2009-09-01

  Fast growing digital music sales and the ongoing popularity of online multiplayer video games helped Vivendi (EPA: VIV) to a recession-beating 15 percent year-on-year revenue growth in the first half of 2009.—Activision Blizzard: The games division continued to power on - revenues up 300 percent from last year to...

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• Vivendi gets Salient.(Universal Music Group signed Salient Films)(Brief article)

  - 2006-10-23

  By Susanne Ault By Susanne Ault

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• Vivendi Universal Will Acquire Matsushita's Minority Interest and Own 100% of Universal Music Group and 20% of NBC Universal.

  - 2006-02-02

  PARIS, Feb 2, 2006 CCNMatthews via COMTEX -- Vivendi Universal and Matsushita Electric Industrial Co., Ltd. announced today that Vivendi Universal will acquire from Matsushita its 7.66% of Universal Studios Holding I Corp. USHI for a price consid PARIS, Feb 2, 2006 CCNMatthews via COMTEX --...

  Tags: Matsushita Electric Industrial Co. Ltd., NBC Universal Inc., Universal Music Group, Vivendi Universal

• Vivendi Universal Will Acquire Matsushita's Minority Interest and Own 100% of Universal Music Group and 20% of NBC Universal

  - 2006-02-02

  PARIS -- Vivendi Universal and Matsushita Electric Industrial Co., Ltd. announced today that Vivendi Universal will acquire from Matsushita its 7.66% of Universal Studios Holding I Corp. USHI for a price consideration of $1.154 billion.

  Tags: Matsushita Electric Industrial Co. Ltd., NBC Universal Inc., Universal Music Group, Vivendi Universal

• Net with universal appeal? Vivendi, EchoStar in talks over music-video channel.

  - 2004-12-06

  Bono is an international superstar, but in an era of iPods and downloadable tunes, skeptics wonder if a 24-hour music-video channel featuring him and other artists can get much traction. Sources confirmed last week that the U2 lead singer's re ...

  Tags: EchoStar Communications Corp., MTV, network, Universal Music Group, Vivendi Universal

• BOUYGUES TELECOM AND UNIVERSAL MUSIC LAUNCH NEW MOBILE SERVICE.(Brief Article)

  - 2004-09-09

  French operator Bouygues Telecom and French publishing house Vivendi Universal launched a new mobile phone service on August 25 in an attempt to boost their market share and increase revenue from younger customers. The new service, which uses high-speed GPRS technology, targets customers under 25 years...

  Tags: Bouygues Telecom, Universal Music Group, Vivendi Universal

• The value of Arboretum Gateway in Santa Monica, Calif., could be affected by Vivendi subsidiary Universal Music's right to cancel its lease for the entire 200,000-sf office building in 2010—six years earlier than scheduled

  - 2004-05-05

  The value of Arboretum Gateway in Santa Monica, Calif., could be affected by Vivendi subsidiary Universal Music's right to cancel its lease for the entire 200,000-sf office building in 2010--six years earlier than scheduled. The property, offered by Lazard Freres' Commonwealth Atlantic Properties, was expected to fetch $100 million, or...

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• Morality in Media: What Most Likely Will Make Vivendi and Vivid's 'Uncensored' Music Channel a Success, is the Sex - and Lots of It

  - 2004-01-08

  NEW YORK, Jan. 8 /U.S. Newswire/ -- The Los Angeles Times reported on Jan. 2 that the world's biggest record conglomerate, Universal Music Group, "is trying to start its own uncensored music TV channel." According to the paper, Universal Music NEW YORK, Jan. 8 /U.S. Newswire/ -- The Los...

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• Universal Music finds pitch with sublet; Vivendi unit rents out W. 19th space; Lipstick Building getting a new face.(Real Estate)(Vivendi Universal will sell office space in Manhattan locations)

  - 2003-07-14

  Byline: lore croghan Universal music group landed a subtenant for 22,000 square feet at 11 W. 19th St., a step forward in a campaign by parent Vivendi Universal to shed surplus office space in several Manhattan locations. The taker is Comprehens ...

  Tags: lease, real estate, Universal Music Group, Vivendi Universal