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...business celebrity by turning Compagnie Generale des Eaux into a $51 billion global media giant, Vivendi Universal. Messier did it by orchestrating a series of stock-and-cash deals for American assets such as Universal Studios and USA Networks and merging them with a clutch of European media and telecom holdings...
Vivendi is just the latest media giant to suffer synergy shock. Sixteen months ago, when he bought the assets of the Seagram Co.--including Universal's movie studio, theme parks and music group--and merged them with Vivendi's European media and telecom holdings, Messier promised a company that "will be the world's preferred creator and provider of personalized information, entertainment and services to consumers anywhere, at any time and across all distribution platforms and devices...
...stocks? There's telecom, still mired in overcapacity, and tech, still waiting for broadband (and something to use it for), and Merrill Lynch, now apologizing for telling everybody to buy stocks. Investors - not much cheered by the first two weeks of earnings season - are waiting on manufacturers, who are waiting on businesses, who are waiting on customers. Everybody's wondering when the Internet is going to start getting where it's going, and starting to think that it may be a little while until it all gets humming again. One more quarter? Two? Maybe more...
...parade is just beginning - future candidates include WorldCom, which lists $50 billion in potentially-impaired goodwill but is only worth $42.7 billion in the market, and AT&T, still sporting $24.8 billion of goodwill from its hostile takeover of MediaOne in 1999. (Notice a lot of tech and telecom companies...
...Besides the growth of life science research, telecom research is a big deal for us, since wireless communications are much bigger in Europe than in the US,” said Crane, whose office will coordinate European research projects from Allston...