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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...
...Tom O’Sullivan, a Tokyo-based consultant and analyst with the publication Japan NRG said: “The government and utilities have not done a good job of reactivating nuclear reactors . . ....
...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...
...Meanwhile, plant owner NRG Energy says it might have to curtail operations at Canal to comply with rules set forth by the Global Warming Solutions Act, a state climate law....
...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....
...According to Bernstein, NRG Energy will have a revenue increase equal to 62 per cent of earnings, Calpine 18 per cent and Exelon 16 per cent....
...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....
...NRG Energy, the power generator and electricity supplier, fell 1.8 per cent to $19.57 after decreasing its revenue guidance for the quarter on Monday evening, citing bad weather in Texas, which interrupted...
...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....
...Toshiba will be the main contractor on NRG’s new projects....
...NRG’s shares had jumped more than 4 per cent by midday Friday in New York, while Anheuser-Busch was little changed....
...But the discrepancy has not stopped suitors such as Microsoft and NRG Energy from stalking potential targets and bankers expected that trend to continue....
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