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...Vivendi’s pay-TV business Canal Plus is working on a potential bid for a minority stake in Starz, the US premium channel known for hit shows including Outlander, as it seeks to bulk up amid fierce competition...
...invest Spac money in ‘sexual wellness’ sector (Wall Street Journal) Cineworld swings to record $3bn pre-tax loss and raises more debt (FT) Business park group CTP raises €854m in Amsterdam IPO (FT) Suez Canal...
...I could give my wife a fresh excuse to use that phrase with Valkee's HumanCharger — a pair of £175 earphones with LEDs that nest in your ear canals and beam light into the recesses of the skull....
...But a significant section of the local citizenry in Kreuzberg, the neighbourhood in which Google had earmarked an impressive, canal-side former electricity substation for a bit of post-industrial transformation...
...iROKOtv, the mobile entertainment group dubbed the Netflix of Africa, has secured $19m from investors including France’s Canal Plus to produce original content and expand across the continent....
...month, Vivendi said it would study a demerger plan that would see the company hive off its SFR telecoms unit in France, but keep GVT as part of its media and entertainment portfolio, which includes the Canal...
...The country is home to the Suez Canal and Sumed pipeline, both important for crude moving from the Gulf to Europe and beyond....
...Importantly, it is also awaiting approval of deals by Canal Plus that will pave the way for Vincent Bolloré, the French investor, to take a 5 per cent stake in Vivendi....
...analysts have for months argued that Vivendi should be broken up to release the full value of its diverse businesses, which combine Universal Music and the gaming unit Activision Blizzard with pay-TV company Canal...
...The nation’s new purpose-built capital stood on 42 islands, crosshatched by canals and connected by 300-odd bridges....
...He could not keep looking at his mobile while on his bike and did not want to risk dropping it into one of the canals....
...Dominique d’Hinin, the company’s finance director, said that Lagardère could make a renewed attempt for an initial public offering of its Canal Plus stake “after the summer”....
...Mr Lagardère is eager to sell his Canal Plus holding to raise cash, after an aborted attempt to float the stake last year....
...Interest has been expressed by LVMH, the Malaysian government’s investment fund Khazanah Nasional Berhad, Qatar Holding LLC and China’s HNA Group, but no deal has yet been sealed....
...The US attorney, which worked with the FBI, cited information from Mr Pu’s friend, who claimed that he disposed of computer hard-drives at Mr Pu’s request by throwing them into a sewage canal in suburban...
...Rising market tensions have already spurred two Chinese internet companies and Canal Plus of France to postpone or scale back listing plans....
...leapt from third place to first, according to industry analysts IMS Research, after it increased shipments of its set-top boxes by 31 per cent to 17m in 2009, to customers such as Comcast, DirecTV and Canal...
...Late last year, Vivendi bought GVT, a Brazilian broadband operator, in a deal worth €2.8bn, then spent another €744m to raise its stake in Canal Plus, the French pay-television group....
...Similar spikes in options trading occurred before the $31bn private equity offer for Texas utility TXU in February and before announcements in April by Mirant and MedImmune that they would consider takeover...
...The property, including a marina, a golf course, a tennis centre and a driving range, is interconnected with a canal, which allows guests to get around using water taxis....
...Mirant’s $8bn bid for NRG Energy, a fellow US independent power company, escalated into public bitterness on Wednesday as NRG issued a strongly worded statement rejecting the offer and Mirant took legal...
...Mirant shares closed at $25.25....
...The latest case came last month, when the CFTC settled with two traders at Mirant, a US energy company, in a case alleging that they submitted false natural gas trading information to a natural gas price...
...Lehman Brothers is advising Vivendi/Canal Plus, while TPS has hired Rothschild....
...Barge right in Thames21, which champions London’s rivers and canals, is the official charity for the Boat Race on April 2....
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