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...chairman. Liberty owns the Starz and Encore premium movie channels, plus 50% of Discovery Communications (which includes Discovery, Animal Planet, Learning and Travel channels) and 43% of the home-shopping channel QVC. In addition, it holds valuable stakes in Vivendi (3%), News Corp. (18%), USA Interactive (20%) and AOL Time Warner (4%), the parent company of this magazine. Liberty also invests in cable and programming companies in Latin America and Japan, where its Jupiter Communications is the largest cable provider (though still a money loser...
With the media and cable industries rapidly consolidating, there's not much room left for a maverick like Malone. Stripped of the enormous leverage his cable empire once gave him, Malone can no longer dictate the terms at the bargaining table. AOL and Comcast are now the gatekeepers, and content players like Disney, Viacom and News Corp. carry much more weight. Malone has effectively acknowledged the corner he's in, indicating that lucrative Liberty stakes in certain closely held assets like CourtTV, E! and QVC will, within a couple of years, probably be sold to whichever media behemoth will...
...good news for travelers is that the market is still attracting providers and investors. In April Cendant Corp. folded Cheaptickets.com into Trip.com and relaunched the new site with a $40 million ad campaign. Trip.com joins established sites like Travelocity (which has a distribution deal with AOL) and Expedia (built by Microsoft and recently sold to USA Network...
...first-years, we began trading AOL Instant Messenger screen names. A few at first. Not everyone knew what AIM was, but the instant messaging playing field was being readied for what later culminated in a huge battle between the world’s largest software giants—Microsoft and AOL Time-Warner. At college, AOL won that battle. And AIM changed the way we deal with one another...
...list goes on, and so does the obsession. According to AOL, high school and college students make up the majority of AIM users, and 1.25 billion instant messages are sent each day through AOL. Graduation farewell e-mails provide far more than just mailing addresses. Along with the expected @post e-mail addresses, we’re also trading screen names. E-mail presents the option of communication, but instant messaging encourages it. If for no other reason than this, we’re bound to be the most in-touch Harvard alumni...