Vivendi Universal

Vivendi Universal (VU) is a French company active in media and communications with activities in music, television and film, publishing, telecommunications and the Internet. The company disclosed a corporate loss of 23.3 billion euros in its 2002 annual report: the worst loss to this date for a French company. Amid intense media scrutiny, its flamboyant Chairman and CEO, Jean-Marie Messier (who had overseen the most dramatic phase of the company's diversific ...

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• Vivendi Universal - History
• Vivendi Universal - 2001
• Vivendi Universal - 2002
• Vivendi Universal - 2003
• Vivendi Universal - 2004
• Vivendi Universal - 2005
• Vivendi Universal - Current assets partial list

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Vivendi Universal was created in December of 2000 with the massive merger of the Vivendi media empire with Canal+ television networks and the Canadian company Seagram, the owner of Universal Studios film company. What had once been Vivendi's core business (water and waste services and other utilities) had previously been spun off as a separate company, now known as Veolia Environnement. See the individual companies' articles for pre-merger company history. Vivendi Universal - 2001. In 2001, VU acquired MP3.com and a leading ...

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Vivendi Universal, Vivendi Universal - History, Vivendi Universal - 2001, Vivendi Universal - 2002, Vivendi Universal - 2003, Vivendi Universal - 2004, Vivendi Universal - 2005, Vivendi Universal - Current assets partial list

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Vivendi Universal was created in December of 2000 with the massive merger of the Vivendi media empire with Canal+ television networks and the Canadian company Seagram, the owner of Universal Studios film company. What had once been Vivendi's core business (water and waste services and other utilities) had previously been spun off as a separate company, now known as Veolia Environnement. See the individual companies' articles for pre-merger company history. Vivendi Universal - 2001. In 2001, VU acquired MP3.com and a leading ...

See also:

Vivendi Universal, Vivendi Universal - History, Vivendi Universal - 2001, Vivendi Universal - 2002, Vivendi Universal - 2003, Vivendi Universal - 2004, Vivendi Universal - 2005, Vivendi Universal - 2006, Vivendi Universal - Current assets partial list

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Universal Music Group (UMG) formerly MCA Music Entertainment (see Music Corporation of America). is the largest major label in the record industry, with a 25.5%% market share it is one of the Big Four record labels. It is owned by Vivendi Universal. They have some of the world's biggest artists including Bon Jovi, Aerosmith, Mariah Carey, Eminem, Luciano Pavarotti, t.A.T.u., Rammstein and U2. It also own one of the largest music publishing bu ...

Including:

• Universal Music Group - Record labels
• Universal Music Group - External link

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Canal Plus Group (Canal+) is a French film and television studio and distributor. It is a wholly owned subsidiary of Vivendi Universal and has a film library in excess of 5,000 films. Vivendi Universal has sold some parts of Canal Plus to private investors which are still using the name of Canal Plus. It is headquartered in Issy-les-Moulineaux, in the vicinity of Paris. Canal+ - Corporate divisions. Canal+ SA (49%) — Premium & theme channels; the Netherlands, France and Spain ...

Including:

• Canal+ - Corporate divisions
• Canal+ - Canal+
• Canal+ - StudioCanal
• Canal+ - CanalSat
• Canal+ - Digital+ Spain
• Canal+ - Shows include

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UMG owns, or has a joint share in, a large number of record labels, including: A&M Records Barclay Records Blackground Records Cinepoly Decca Records Deutsche Grammophon DreamWorks Records Geffen Records Go East Entertainment Hollywood Records (Owned by The Walt Disney Company, distributed by Universal in the US and Canada only) Interscope Records Island Def Jam Records Island Records Roadrunner Records < ...

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Universal Music Group, Universal Music Group - Record labels, Universal Music Group - External link

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The Canadian Broadcasting Corporation (CBC), a Canadian crown corporation, is the country's national radio and television broadcaster. In French, it is called la Société Radio-Canada (Radio-Canada or SRC). The umbrella corporate brand is CBC/Radio-Canada. The CBC is the oldest broadcasting service in the country, first established in its present form on November 2, 1936. Radio services include CBC Radio One, CBC Radio Two, La Première Chaîne, Espace musique, and the in ...

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• Canadian Broadcasting Corporation - History
• Canadian Broadcasting Corporation - Corporate structure and funding
• Canadian Broadcasting Corporation - Programming
• Canadian Broadcasting Corporation - Television
• Canadian Broadcasting Corporation - Radio
• Canadian Broadcasting Corporation - Internet
• Canadian Broadcasting Corporation - Podcasting
• Canadian Broadcasting Corporation - Other ventures
• Canadian Broadcasting Corporation - Audio services
• Canadian Broadcasting Corporation - Technical services
• Canadian Broadcasting Corporation - CBC in other countries
• Canadian Broadcasting Corporation - Newsworld International
• Canadian Broadcasting Corporation - US border audiences
• Canadian Broadcasting Corporation - Carriage of CBC News
• Canadian Broadcasting Corporation - CBC Radio
• Canadian Broadcasting Corporation - Caribbean and Bermuda
• Canadian Broadcasting Corporation - CBC Bureaus
• Canadian Broadcasting Corporation - Overseas
• Canadian Broadcasting Corporation - Public versus private ownership
• Canadian Broadcasting Corporation - Issue of bias
• Canadian Broadcasting Corporation - Nicknames
• Canadian Broadcasting Corporation - Labour problems
• Canadian Broadcasting Corporation - Presidents
• Canadian Broadcasting Corporation - Famous people who got their starts on the CBC

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Warcraft III: Reign of Chaos, released by Blizzard Entertainment in 2002, is a real-time strategy computer game and the second sequel to Warcraft. It is the third game set in the Warcraft Universe. Warcraft III - Overview. One of the main innovations Warcraft III offers over the previous games in the series is the addition of several powerful units called heroes. For instance, heroes within the game can find or trade items to increase skills, defense, etc. With each kill of an enemy of ...

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• Warcraft III - Overview
• Warcraft III - Collector's Edition
• Warcraft III - Gameplay
• Warcraft III - Multiplayer
• Warcraft III - Famous players
• Warcraft III - Reign of Chaos
• Warcraft III - Plot
• Warcraft III - Prologue campaign: Exodus of the Horde
• Warcraft III - Human campaign: The Scourge of Lordaeron
• Warcraft III - Undead campaign: Path of the Damned
• Warcraft III - Orc campaign: The Invasion of Kalimdor
• Warcraft III - Night Elf campaign: Eternity's End
• Warcraft III - The Frozen Throne expansion
• Warcraft III - Plot
• Warcraft III - Night Elf campaign
• Warcraft III - Alliance campaign
• Warcraft III - Undead campaign
• Warcraft III - Orc mini-campaign
• Warcraft III - Spin-offs
• Warcraft III - Modding
• Warcraft III - Custom maps
• Warcraft III - Quotations

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Crash Bandicoot - The platformers. The first three Crash games, as well as several subsequent Crash games, were platform games. Crash Bandicoot - Gameplay. The core gameplay in the Crash Bandicoot series is simple, but entertaining and quite addictive nonetheless.There are Aku Aku masks sparsely scattered throughout the levels. Collecting an Aku Aku mask while Crash already has one turns the one he has gold. Collecting another mask while Crash has a gold one ...

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• Crash Bandicoot - The platformers
• Crash Bandicoot - Gameplay
• Crash Bandicoot - Crates
• Crash Bandicoot - Characters
• Crash Bandicoot - Mascot
• Crash Bandicoot - Developers
• Crash Bandicoot - Installments
• Crash Bandicoot - Cameos
• Crash Bandicoot - Crash in pop culture

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The two-letter abbreviation VU has several different meanings: VU is the country code of Vanuatu; .vu is its ccTLD. Vivendi Universal, a French company active in media and communications with activities in music, television and film, publishing, telecommunications and the Internet. Volume Unit as measured by a VU meter. The Velvet Underground an American rock and roll band of the late 1960s, VU was an al ...

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In many countries, the Yellow Pages refers to a telephone directory for businesses organized by the category of product or service. As the name suggests, they are usually printed on yellow paper. Yellow Pages - In general. Yellow Pages directories are usually published annually and distributed for free to all residences and businesses within a given coverage area. The majority of listings are in plain small black text. Yellow Pages publishers make their profits by selling special value-added features to bus ...

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• Yellow Pages - In general
• Yellow Pages - United States
• Yellow Pages - United Kingdom
• Yellow Pages - References
• Yellow Pages - Australia
• Yellow Pages - France
• Yellow Pages - Other countries

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British Sky Broadcasting (BSkyB - formerly two companies, Sky Television plc and British Satellite Broadcasting) is a company that operates Sky Digital, the most popular subscription television service in the UK and Ireland. It also produces TV content, and owns several TV channels. It is controlled by 36.8% shareholder News Corporation, an American company chaired by Rupert Murdoch. For the year to 30 June 2005 BSkyB had turnover of £4.048 billion, and made a profit of £631 million before tax and £425 million after tax. At ...

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• British Sky Broadcasting - Organisation
• British Sky Broadcasting - Direct subsidiaries
• British Sky Broadcasting - Joint ventures
• British Sky Broadcasting - History
• British Sky Broadcasting - Origins
• British Sky Broadcasting - Football rights
• British Sky Broadcasting - Improving technology
• British Sky Broadcasting - Terrestrial competition
• British Sky Broadcasting - Timeline
• British Sky Broadcasting - Future
• British Sky Broadcasting - Technology and conditional access
• British Sky Broadcasting - Management
• British Sky Broadcasting - Sky and cable television

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The École polytechnique (the "Polytechnic School"), often nicknamed X, is the foremost of the French Grandes écoles of engineering. Initially located in the Quartier Latin in central Paris, it was moved to the suburb Palaiseau in 1976. Its motto is Pour la Patrie, les Sciences et la Gloire—"For the Nation, Sciences and Glory." Traditionally, a favored goal of the polythecniciens was to join the elite government bodies known as the grands corps techniques de l'État (X-Mines, ...

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• École Polytechnique - Status
• École Polytechnique - Activities
• École Polytechnique - The Polytechnicien studies
• École Polytechnique - Introduction
• École Polytechnique - Admission
• École Polytechnique - Curriculum
• École Polytechnique - Ranking
• École Polytechnique - Tuition and financial obligations
• École Polytechnique - The Graduate School
• École Polytechnique - History
• École Polytechnique - Alumni

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V is the twenty-second letter in the modern Latin alphabet. Its name in English is vee. Like F and the Greek letter Upsilon (also spelled Ypsilon), V evolved from the Phoenician letter Waw. In Etruscan it was simplified to V and had the sound value /u/, but since F came to represent /f/ in Latin rather than /w/, the Romans used V for both /w/ and /u/, as in EQVVS. In some Roman handwriting styles, it was written as a modern uppercase V, while in others like uncial it resembled modern lowercase uIncluding:

• V - Alternative representations
• V - Computing
• V - Meanings for V

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Ancient victors were crowned with olive wreaths (Gk. kotinos) — a tradition echoed with this games' medalists. The colours of the logo come from the Flag of Greece. The 2004 Summer Olympics are officially known as the Games of the XXVIII Olympiad (the 28th Summer Olympic Games). The Games were held in Athens over 17 days, from August 13 to August 29, 2004. Planners expected 10,500 athletes (in fact 11,099 competed) and 5,500 team officials from 202 countries. Athens 2004 marked t ...

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• 2004 Summer Olympics - Medal table
• 2004 Summer Olympics - Bid and preparations
• 2004 Summer Olympics - Venue construction crisis
• 2004 Summer Olympics - Mascots
• 2004 Summer Olympics - Online coverage
• 2004 Summer Olympics - Opening ceremony
• 2004 Summer Olympics - Closing ceremony
• 2004 Summer Olympics - Sports
• 2004 Summer Olympics - Nations
• 2004 Summer Olympics - Venues
• 2004 Summer Olympics - Competition venues
• 2004 Summer Olympics - Non-competition venues

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Adventure is a genre of video game typified by exploration, puzzle-solving, interaction with game characters, and a focus on narrative rather than reflex-based challenges. The vast majority of adventure games are computer games, though console-based adventure games are not unheard of. Unlike many other game genres, the adventure genre's focus on story allows it to draw heavily from other narrative-based art forms, such as literature and film. Adventure games encompass a wide variety of literary genres, including fantasy, science ficti ...

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• Adventure game - History
• Adventure game - Colossal Cave Adventure
• Adventure game - Scott Adams
• Adventure game - Graphical progress
• Adventure game - Infocom
• Adventure game - Sierra
• Adventure game - LucasArts
• Adventure game - Myst
• Adventure game - Types of adventure games
• Adventure game - Puzzle adventure
• Adventure game - Action-adventure
• Adventure game - Text based
• Adventure game - Graphical adventure
• Adventure game - RPG-like
• Adventure game - Other
• Adventure game - Modern adventure games
• Adventure game - Common features
• Adventure game - Notable adventure games
• Adventure game - Series

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Albert Arnold Gore Jr. (born March 31, 1948) is an American politician and businessman, who served as the 45th Vice President of the United States from 1993 to 2001. He ran for President in 2000 following Bill Clinton's two four-year terms, and won the popular vote. However he was narrowly defeated in the Electoral College vote by the Republican candidate George W. Bush in a bitterly contested election which included multiple recounts and a 5- ...

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• Al Gore - Early and personal life
• Al Gore - Family
• Al Gore - Vietnam War service
• Al Gore - Vietnam and journalism
• Al Gore - Military service
• Al Gore - Congressman and Senator
• Al Gore - Vice Presidency
• Al Gore - 2000 presidential election
• Al Gore - Private citizen
• Al Gore - 2004 presidential election
• Al Gore - Views and controversies
• Al Gore - Al Gore Television Credits

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Blizzard Entertainment is a PC game developer and publisher. Since its release of Warcraft in 1994, it has been one of the most successful game development studios in the world. Its headquarters are based in Irvine, California. The company has a history of largely overshooting release dates. However, many Blizzard fans see this as somewhat of a blessing in disguise, as Blizzard has a reputation for producing classic games that are played for years to come. Blizzard also has a reputation for taking fierce legal action against an ...

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• Blizzard Entertainment - Overview
• Blizzard Entertainment - Titles
• Blizzard Entertainment - Bnetd
• Blizzard Entertainment - FreeCraft
• Blizzard Entertainment - Warden Client
• Blizzard Entertainment - Trivia

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Current TV is an independent media company, led by former U.S. Vice President Al Gore, attorney Joel Hyatt and a team of industry professionals and young people. The cable television network went on the air in 2005, at midnight EDT (4:00 UTC) on the morning of August 1st. Until the minute before the launch, the channel carried Newsworld International from the CBC. The network features various "pod" segments. These "pod" segments are videos between 5 seconds and 15 minutes, and are designed by the network's viewers. Viewers are ...

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• Current TV - History

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Interplay Entertainment Corporation is an American video game and computer game publisher and developer. It has been teetering on the brink of bankruptcy since mid-2004. Interplay Entertainment - History. The company was founded as "Interplay Productions" in Southern California in 1983 by former employees of a small video game developer called Boone Corporation. Interplay made a name for itself as a quality computer game developer with the role-playing games The Bard's Tale and WastelandIncluding:

• Interplay Entertainment - History
• Interplay Entertainment - Notable titles

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