After three years of mudslinging, the three giants that control 95% of the instant-messaging market-- AOL Time Warner (nyse: AOL - news - people ) with 180 million users, Microsoft (nasdaq: MSFT - news - people ) with 75 million and Yahoo (nasdaq: YHOO - news - people ), 20 million--still refuse to let their customers contact those in rival camps.
Armstrong, who recently said he sort-of, perhaps, possibly might be interested in buying Time Inc. even though the AOL- Time Warner merger of 13 years ago was widely considered one of the worst in business history, opened the advertising technology conference ad:tech in San Francisco today with a packed keynote address.
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The effect could extend even further how well can the new AOL-Time Warner do selling high-speed Internet access if homes stop buying PCs?
The impact could extend even further how well can the new AOL-Time Warner do selling high-speed Internet access if homes stop buying PCs altogether?
He compares the prime time move to the infamous AOL-Time Warner marriage.
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The Comedy Channel, which Viacom already half owns--AOL Time Warner owns the other half--and the Discovery Channel have been mentioned as potential targets.
The decline of MySpace is a tale with echoes of the ill-fated pact AOL made with Time Warner: A high-flying Internet venture gets caught in a culture clash precipitated by joining a big media conglomerate.
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Cisneros is surely grinning about the additional content he's to receive under the AOL-Time Warner merger.
And at that very moment the (ultimately disastrous) AOL-Time Warner deal had been announced that very day.
The discovery of the link provides new fodder for competitors looking for concessions from AOL-Time Warner as part of their proposed merger.
Despite several well-documented efforts to pair content with distribution in years past, bigger has yet to prove better (Let AOL-Time Warner serve as example).
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Pittman, who is perhaps best known for his prominent role in the AOL- Time Warner merger, has been with the radio conglomerate since last November as its chairman of media and entertainment platforms.
But US newspapers are reporting the FTC is still worried that after the deal is completed, many homes will have no choice but accept AOL-Time Warner television and internet programming on an exclusive basis.
Similar logic lay behind the announcement back in January of 2000 that America Online (nyse: AOL - news - people ) would purchase Time Warner .
Some of America's high-tech leaders, AOL Time Warner and Microsoft, Amazon, e-Bay, Cisco Systems and Yahoo!
He has held on to Amazon, Priceline and Ebay--the first two are down sharply since he bought--and aol Time Warner.
It concluded there were few barriers to entry to this market-- which was at one time dominated by Netscape, now owned by AOL Time Warner (nyse: AOL - news - people)--so that no one could be said to monopolize it.
One reason for the excitement: the expected initial public offering of Time Warner Cable from AOL Time Warner (nyse: AOL - news - people ).
Since its launch the fund has fallen dizzyingly--17% in 2000, 32% in 2001 and 33% this year--along with Dent-inspired picks such as Cisco Systems and AOL Time Warner.
's Los Angeles Dodgers and the three AOL Time Warner-owned franchises in Atlanta (the Hawks, Braves and Thrashers).
The Dolans could sell the cable business to AOL Time Warner--the guys who bought Chuck Dolan out of HBO three decades ago.
That's when AOL's spin-off from Time Warner -- also the parent company of CNN -- was to become official.
Earlier this year, two other AOL Time Warner shareholders - the University of California and the Amalgamated Bank's Long View Collective Investment Fund - alleged in a lawsuit that some of the firm's top executives boosted its share price through bogus transactions.
In setting the conditions that apply to IM, the FCC was concerned that AOL Time Warner could use Time Warner's cable networks to extend its current dominance in text-based IM into new "advanced" IM services that will include multimedia components such as video conferencing.
And as if there haven't already been enough recycled media brands pushed to the movie screen in recent years, AOL Time Warner's Warner Bros. will bring a live-action version of the Scooby-Doo mystery cartoons, starring Sarah Michelle Gellar of Buffy the Vampire Slayer fame.
Household products giant Unilever has signed a "groundbreaking" advertising and research contract with magazine-to-website giant AOL Time Warner.
Some of the most interesting speculation has centered around iChat, Apple's instant-messaging client that lets users send messages using their buddy lists from AOL Time Warner 's (nyse: AOL - news - people ) AOL Instant Messenger.
It's presumed that most EarthLink subscribers are looking for simpler and cheaper online access as alternatives to the in-your-face consumerism proffered to Microsoft's 8 million MSN subscribers and AOL Time Warner 's (nyse: AOL - news - people ) 33.2 million America Online and Roadrunner subscribers.
's MySpace or Time Warner 's AOL--to make another run at buying Yahoo!'
AOL, at that time a division of Time-Warner, created fraudulent round-trip transactions to fund its own online advertising revenue by giving ad buyers the funds to pay for advertising they would not have otherwise purchased.
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