Vivendi sees 500,000 Zaoza subscribers by end 2008
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Vivendi  expects its new Internet  music, ringtone and video games provider Zaoza to attract  500,000 subscribers by the end of the year, the French telecoms  and media group said on Tuesday.
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Finally, something to sing about at Vivendi Universal (nyse: V - news - people ). The French conglomerate raised its 2004 earnings forecast after reporting a fivefold increase in third-quarter profit, thanks to its music and telecommunications units.
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AMSTERDAM: Royal Philips Electronics NV has sold its entire 3% stake in Vivendi Universal for around 720 million euros. The transaction closed on Wednesday and is expected to result in a non-taxable gain of 300 million euros in the fourth quarter.
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International Data Corp. said growth in demand for Linux servers in Europe is expected to almost double by 2008. Microsoft is fighting back by cutting prices and through publicity campaigns
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EUROGAMER is reporting that Vivendi has informed its retail partners this week of the release dates for the long-awaited Half-Life 2, putting to bed speculation that the court case currently ongoing between Vivendi and Valve would delay the games release
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Vivendi SA is close to an agreement to  buy Bertelsmann's BMG Music Publishing unit for about 1.6  billion euros ($2.1 billion), a source familiar with the deal  said.
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The planned $3 billion deal would give Sony a library of more than 4,100 titles. Also: Vivendi says its recovery is almost complete, despite large losses & hellip;. Canon and Toshiba team up to produce next-generation flat display panels & hellip;. and more.
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PARIS  - Shares in French video games publisher Ubisoft Entertainment SA surged Wednesday on a report that it discussed a so-called white knight deal with Vivendi Universal SA to fight a possible takeover bid from U.S. rival Electronic Arts Inc.
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Research in Motion adds a million subscribers in nine months. Yeah, that's pretty good.
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InfoWorld - IDC on Wednesday painted an optimistic outlook for Linux over the next few years, predicting that overall revenue for desktops, servers, and Linux-compatible packaged software will reach &#36;35 billion by 2008.
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The number of DSL subscribers worldwide exceeded 78 million as of 30-June-2004, up by 30 million in 12 months, according to the latest data produced for the DSL Forum by industry analyst Point Topic.
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ESPOO, Finland, May 25  /PRNewswire-FirstCall/ -- Launched only in October 2006, WidSets today announced that it has reached 1 million registered users worldwide.
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Vivendi&#39;s recovery is almost complete, the French media and telecommunications giant declared Tuesday, despite a massive second-quarter net loss bloated by the effects of the weaker US dollar.
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Company will make components as well as devices in 2005.
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Almost 40 percent of Chinese own mobile phones, and the number of subscribers is likely to hit 500 million before the end of June.
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VoIP will reach about 400,000 US households by the end of this year, a number that will grow to 12.1 million, or 10 percent of all homes in the US, by 2009, according to a forecast by New-York-based research firm JupiterResearch.
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com October 21, 2004, 4:30 PM PT. ZDNet&#39;s survey of IT professionals in October kept upgrading hardware at number two on the businesses radar throughout the year.