Word: aol
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...still be lurking in the wings of the world's largest media company, looking to the future and tending to the convergence vision whose promise, he says, "still burns bright in my head." But Steve Case's resignation under pressure Sunday as chairman of the board of AOL Time Warner (the firm that owns TIME magazine) quickly became more than a way for the company's embittered shareholders to leave the past behind and look level-headed at their future - it was an occasion for the news media to do the same. In business sections, on Op-Ed pages...
...Certainly Case and his company made the perfect Icarus. One of the Internet's great touts as head of AOL, he became one of its great arbitrageurs too when he engineered the merger with Time Warner just before the bubble popped. AOL shareholders who got out made out, but three years later the combined company's stock is down to $15 from $72 and the AOL unit is still looking for a model that can come close to the dizzying growth rates of the past. Throw in several ongoing investigations into accounting at the pre-merger AOL and the suspicion...
...recommends. You may even be able to lease one. If you're paying a few dollars a month for a Time Warner Cable digital-cable box, for instance, you can get one with a built-in HD converter at no extra charge. (Time Warner Cable is owned by AOL Time Warner, which also publishes this magazine.) Or, to get free HD over the air, you could hook a digital-TV tuner ($450 and above) and a UHF antenna (such as the Terk TV-55, about $100) to your...
...ironic that all these peace-loving premodern agrarians are making astonishing amounts of cash for a lot of postmodern technocapitalist movie executives. Fantasy is hot, and studios are backing up the truck. Even as New Line and Warner Bros. (which, like Time, are owned by AOL Time Warner) churn out Potter and Rings sequels, New Line is already developing a follow-up franchise based on Philip Pullman's critically acclaimed fantasy trilogy His Dark Materials, about the journey of an adolescent girl and boy through alternative worlds inhabited by witches, angels and armored polar bears. Late next year...
...relatively unknown director who seldom stepped foot outside New Zealand and who was best known for quirky, low-budget films, was given a $270 million budget. The cost ultimately climbed to $310 million. If the first movie had tanked, then New Line (which, like TIME, is owned by AOL Time Warner) would have had two more bombs in the can, already ticking...