Updated throughout the day.

Vivendi will get no upfront cash from GE (NYSE:GE) for the sale of its stake in NBCU (Reuters)

More that one of the candidates for the Bank of America (NYSE:BAC) job wants the firm broken into pieces  (WSJ)

News Corp’s (NYSE:NWS)  WSJ is spending $15 million to build local coverage of New York City to better compete with The New York Times (NYSE:NYT)  (NY Observer)

Kraft (NYSE:KFT) is still the most likely buyer of Cadbury (NYSE:CBY) (NY Times).

Douglas A. McIntyre