Vivendi chief says music industry gloom overdone
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CANNES, France  - Vivendi Chief Executive Jean-Bernard Levy has no plans to spin off the music unit Universal and he said on Saturday he believed the gloom surrounding the industry had been over done.
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Vivendi Universal SA said Tuesday that revenue fell 26 percent in the fourth quarter after the communications giant accounted for the sale of U.S. entertainment assets.
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Competition makes for a dreary outlook for the company.
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CANNES, France  - Away from the headlines of job  losses, grumbling artists and falling global sales, the music  industry is trying new business models to boost digital sales  and offset the fall in CD sales.
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The music industry has long hoped  mobile phones will help turn around weak music sales, but music  executives privately fear the most obvious contender, the  iPhone, may give too much clout to Apple Inc. , in  shaping the future of the fledgling mobile music market.
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CEO weighs in on Linux, EU regulators, music pirates and "bad people out there in cyberspace."
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France's market watchdog questioned the current and former heads of Vivendi Universal SA on Thursday in a final hearing before it decides on sanctions for misleading financial communications allegedly published by the company between 2000 and 2002.
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PARIS : French media giant Vivendi Universal reported a surge in its net loss so far this year but forecast a sharp turnaround in its finances for all of 2004.
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Vivendi Universal SA, owner of the world&#39;s largest music company, said it will sell a 15 percent stake in Veolia Environnement SA to cut debt and focus on its media business.
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Music sales last year are expected to be down by 10% despite the growing popularity of the digital music market.
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A rift appeared within Canada&#39;s music industry yesterday as prominent artists called on the CRTC to embrace satellite radio and the industry warned of lost revenue and job losses.
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Shares of Vivendi Universal, the owner of Universal Music Group, and Britain&#39;s EMI Group each traded down over 2 percent Friday amid a report that New York Attorney General
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Business & money: Chief executive Tony Hayward warns Q3 results will be 'dreadful'.
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The Apple CEO was blunt that he believes the Zune is a failure, and that Blu-ray may have won the format war, but has probably lost the HD content battle.
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France&#39;s largest media group, Vivendi Universal, yesterday revealed that first-half net losses had nearly trebled to â¬1.86bn (Â£1.
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Despite the financial struggles in the industry, it feels as if we are in the midst of a golden age of classical recording.
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Macrovision's Richard Bullwinkle questions the longevity of his music collection in the digital age.