Word: bronfmans
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...Thoughts on Music,” Jobs outlined three alternatives and ultimately decided that the most feasible option was to remove any encoding software.Yet recording industry officials are still pursuing the approval of the PERFORM Act in Congress. After the introduction of the bill, Warner Music Group CEO Edgar Bronfman said in a Senate Judiciary Committee hearing, “What is clear to everyone is that these services no longer resemble and will increasingly stray from our collective understanding of what constitutes a traditional radio service.”He is correct in noting that these new forms...
...cocktail party at their Manhattan apartment. It was a typical gay fund raiser--there were lemony vodka drinks with mint sprigs; there were gift bags with Calvin Klein sunglasses; Friedrichs prepared little blackened-tuna-with-mango-chutney hors d'oeuvres that were served by uniformed waiters. Billionaire philanthropist Edgar Bronfman Sr. was there; David Mixner, a gay activist and longtime friend of Bill Clinton's, was holding court with Jason Moore, director of the musical Avenue...
...Antony Brydon had used a social-networking application in 2000 to sell EMusic, he might have made an extra $30 million on the deal. At the time, Universal head Edgar Bronfman Jr. had shown interest in purchasing EMusic, a digital-music distribution company then valued at $60 million, but was distracted by his company's merger with Vivendi. It took Brydon four months of searching to realize he had another entree into Universal: an EMusic board member who knew Universal Music president Doug Morris. Once an introduction was secured, they quickly struck a deal for $24 million. But during...
Vivendi narrowed the field to one after many months of shopping, flirting and haggling with a long line of suitors that included Viacom, MGM, Liberty Media and finally Edgar Bronfman Jr., the former Seagram CEO who sold Universal to Vivendi in the first place...
...take control. And last week, Vivendi's board signed off on a plan to increase its stake in a Moroccan telecom firm. But if he wanted to focus principally on telecommunications, then Fourtou's most logical move would have been to sell the U.S. entertainment assets outright; Edgar Bronfman Jr., who originally sold Universal to Messier and is on Vivendi's board, offered $8 billion in cash. Fourtou himself acknowledges that he doesn't yet have a final strategy. One possibility, he said last week, is to split Vivendi into two companies: one focusing on entertainment, the other on telecommunications...