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...woke the company from Messier's Technicolor dream of becoming a major player in Hollywood. After an epic four-month auction among many of the world's largest media firms, the company signed a letter of intent with General Electric to merge its U.S. movie and TV businesses with GE's NBC. The result would be a new media giant that puts Vivendi's assets - Universal Pictures, theme parks in California, Florida, Spain and Japan, and four U.S. cable-TV stations - together with...
...will head the company called NBC Universal if the deal goes through. "We want to be in the content creation and distribution business in a bigger way, over a longer period of time. Universal was an opportunity that came our way to do that." Investors appeared to agree. GE stock shot up the day the deal was announced and ended the week up 5% at $31.04. Vivendi stock was up over 4% in the week following the announcement to €16.90. GE is betting that its hard-nosed approach to profitability can make the NBC Universal combination a success...
...Says "Fly Right" Charging undue favoritism, the European Union issued a warning after China Airlines, Taiwan's mostly state-owned carrier, ordered 24 engines from U.S. firm GE instead of the U.K.'s Rolls-Royce. GE admitted its engines are not even certified for the type of aircraft involved in the deal...
Paretzky joined the group’s a cappella subset, Sisters of Kuumba, and was elected the choir’s vice president her junior year. For the past year she’s also been developing her repertoire by singing with the local band Soulfège, started by Kuumba alumni...
...sleek-looking, 88-bed, for-profit hospital, which opened in February, uses more than 650 computer stations made by GE Medical Systems to store records, test data and diagnostic images. Bedside terminals are intended to make patient care swifter and more customized--and safer, with mandatory bar-code scanning to cut the chance of a drug mix-up. Of course, the "paperless office" has been touted for years and has seldom materialized. But the hospital says its goals will be met if it can boost productivity...