Maybe a network will be the thing that replaces the single streaming media star. VENN, a new company launching with $17 million in funding from some of the biggest names in gaming, is hoping to harnes
French television company Canal+ has acquired the ROK film studio from VOD company IROKOtv for an undisclosed amount. Founded by Jason Njoku in 2010 — and backed by $45 million in VC — IROKOtv b
Vivendi’s hostile bid for the French mobile games maker Gameloft has won majority shareholder backing, which means the deal looks like being as good as done. Gameloft makes smash hit games like Orde
Slowly but surely, <a target="_blank" href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Vivendi">Vivendi</a> is trying to get back into the video game industry. After selling back its stake into Activision Blizzard
The long-running saga of who would become the new owner of online video site Dailymotion has finally come to an end. Vivendi has announced that it’s acquired an 80% stake in the company from Fre
As the telecom company Free <a href="https://techcrunch.com/2012/09/03/how-the-telecom-company-free-disrupted-the-mobile-landscape-in-france/">disrupted the mobile landscape</a> in France, employment
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The European Commission yesterday granted French entertainment and telecommunication services conglomerate <a hre
<img src="http://tctechcrunch.files.wordpress.com/2010/03/umg.png" class="shot2" />French media conglomerate <a href="http://www.vivendi.com/vivendi/-accueil-en-">Vivendi</a> this morning <a href="htt
http://videomedia.ign.com/ev/ev.swf I won’t go into all the gory details, but here’s a quick recap. Monolith and Sierra pushed out F.E.A.R. in 2005, but Monolith was acquired in 2004 by Wa
In a decision last week a Delaware court rejected a request by the Wayne County Employees’ Retirement System for a preliminary injunction against the proposed Vivendi-Activision merger. Though t
I wish. Actually, these two big boys merged to create the decidedly more predictable and tame-sounding “Activision Blizzard,” which sounds a lot like a spell you might cast in D&D. The