Word: aol
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...these battles are particularly high stakes. In one, AOL, Yahoo, Excite@Home and others are fighting to become the dominant "mobile portal"--the first screen that wireless Internet users land on. The winner has the potential to be the Yahoo of the wireless age once the number of people connecting to the Internet wirelessly exceeds the number connecting through wires...
...Tuesday, offering an olive branch that brought an extension of the current Disney contract through July 15, a grateful viewership could finally reconnect with Regis. But there had taken place a not so subtle shifting in the ground beneath the cable business and in attitudes toward the Time Warner-AOL merger...
...misadventure isn't likely to derail the AOL deal. As former FCC chairman Reed Hundt puts it, "Those people who might [have been led to] think AOL-Time Warner is a big, scary company already know how big and scary it is." But there was a big rush on satellite dishes in Houston last week, and a heightened sensitivity to the power of the cable companies. Officials in many cities have been looking toward Portland, Ore., which drew upon its power to approve a change in ownership of the city's cable systems to win concessions from AT&T when...
Just because Ford's Taurus is an American best seller, should the company be barred from sharing its innovative work among its divisions? Should America Online, the No. 1 website, be stopped from sharing technologies developed by Netscape (which AOL owns) or with Time Warner Cable and CNN.com Should Sun, a leading player in high-end e-commerce servers, be stopped from sharing among its OS, applications and hardware...
...Washington," says TIME legal correspondent Adam Cohen. "This case, just like Microsoft, probably wouldn't have been brought five years ago." And with Time Warner not only looking to merge its music division with that of EMI but also hoping the FTC will approve its swallowing by AOL, a no-fuss settlement is an excellent way to signal to the trustbusters that it's a gentle giant. "In this climate, it doesn't want to look like it's using its size or connections unfairly," says Cohen. Click here to forward this story to Bill Gates...