VIVENDI'S GLOBAL GRAB

摘要

Jean-Marie Messier is cooking up deals faster than a chef in a Paris bistro. The 43-year-old chief executive of French communications and utilities group Vivendi is in talks with America Online Inc. about joining a new Europewide Internet portal he's launching with Britain's Vodafone Air-Touch PLC. He's negotiating to join me- dia giant Rupert Murdoch in a global satellite television and Internet venture. And in Hollywood mogul style, Messier has had closed-door discussions with Seagram Co. In a long-shot bid, he is said to have offered at least $30 billion to acquire the Canadian company and its Universal Studios Inc. and music subsidiaries.