May 21 -- NEW YORK (Variety) — Just months after Universal Music Group beat MP3.com to a pulp in federal court over copyright infringement, Universal's Vivendi Universal parent has agreed to buy the ...

Vivendi Universal SA, the French conglomerate, agreed yesterday to pay a $50 million penalty and its former chief executive, Jean-Marie Messier, said he would surrender his $25 million severance ...

PARIS--Vivendi Universal said Friday it is seeking a buyer for its professional press arm, including its information technology publishing unit. Vivendi said it plans to use proceeds from the sale to ...

Vivendi Universal, the troubled conglomerate that owns telecommunications, movie, music, game, and cable companies, saw its share prices jump on Wednesday and continue to climb this week after the ...

PARIS -- Shareholders from the U.S. and multiple countries took entertainment conglomerate Vivendi Universal to court in Paris on Tuesday to demand up to $1 billion in damages, claimint it hid its ...

From Voltaire to Hugo, from students on the barricades in 1968 to students toppling McDonald's golden arches in 1999, the French appetite for political drama has been a constant. Today, in a theater ...

PARIS, July 28 (Reuters) - Vivendi's most prized division Universal, the music label behind artists like Justin Bieber and Taylor Swift, drove group first-half results, bolstering its position two ...

The French media conglomerate is in talks to sell a 10 percent stake in the music major to a blank check company of Bill Ackman’s hedge fund Pershing Square. By Georg Szalai Global Business Editor ...

French entertainment and telecom conglomerate Vivendi reported higher first-quarter revenue, driven by Universal Music Group, and said the period's results were "little affected" by the coronavirus ...

General Electric Co. and Paris-based Vivendi Universal on Wednesday reached a final agreement to merge the French company's U.S. entertainment assets with GE's television network NBC, creating a media ...

PARIS (Reuters) -Vivendi’s most prized division Universal, the music label behind artists like Justin Bieber and Taylor Swift, drove group first-half results, bolstering its position two months before ...