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...Jurassic Park, could run on Vivendi's majority-controlled Canal Plus subscription-TV service, the Continent's largest. And Seagram's Universal music group, currently the biggest on earth, could deliver Limp Bizkit and Sting to millions of European households via Vivendi's 50%-controlled Vizzavi Internet portal. Such synergies will be enshrined forever--or at least until the next deal--in the proposed name of the merged colossus: Vivendi Universal...
...such connections, the proposed $113 billion marriage of America Online and Time Warner, whose holdings include this magazine. And as in a Vivendi-Seagram deal, these hookups increasingly reach across borders. Last month Spain's Terra Networks, an Internet provider, agreed to pay $12.5 billion for the U.S. portal Lycos; the German media giant Bertelsmann will also be a partner...
Brian Cury, CEO and founder of the webcam portal EarthCam.com adds 30 webcams a day to his site and estimates that around 2 million viewers log on to catch a live image of someone else's daily activities. "People are screaming to communicate using this medium," he says. "Within hours, they start to create an affinity with the people they're looking...
...these battles are particularly high stakes. In one, AOL, Yahoo, Excite@Home and others are fighting to become the dominant "mobile portal"--the first screen that wireless Internet users land on. The winner has the potential to be the Yahoo of the wireless age once the number of people connecting to the Internet wirelessly exceeds the number connecting through wires...
...look forward to the portal becoming every individual's home-and-away-from-home page," said Dean of the Faculty Jeremy R. Knowles in a press release...