The recording industry including Warner Music, which like CNN is owned by a AOL-Time Warner, couldn't be happier.

包括像CNN一样属AOL时代华纳公司所有的华纳公司在内的唱片业再高兴不过了。

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The turning point of the last cycle, he believes, was the merger of AOL and Time Warner.

他相信美国在线和时代华纳的合并是上个周期的转折点。

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Because nobody wants be the guy who buys another Bebo, or oversees a sour marriage like AOL Time Warner, or cuts thousands of jobs and throws in the towel, right?

因为没有人会想成为买另一个社交网络的人，或者去监督那段苦涩的婚姻：美国在线与时代华纳，或者说是砍掉很多的工作岗位和就此认输，对吗？

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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.

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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?

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