Word: aol
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Dates: during 2000-2009
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...Some banks made money, some lost. Pepsi scored, Coke disappointed. Some techs went up, some (OK, most) went down. The PC market is so bad that Dell is getting into routers. And in an example that, yes, this column was watching with particular interest, AOL Time Warner beat earnings expectations but was deemed to have done it all through cost-cutting and accounting magic, and so was beaten by traders like a mule that was not only rented but over-dependent on the moribund ad market...
...revolution, has had some often chronicled setbacks lately, losing hundreds of millions in the dotcom collapse. But GoTo, based in Pasadena, Calif., looks like a winner. GoTo's sponsored searches are ubiquitous. Along with the action on its own site, GoTo powers searches on most other major engines, including AOL, AltaVista, Lycos and MSN. GoTo's stock has quadrupled in a year, and in a punishing investment market the company raised an additional $60 million in funding last week...
TIME Magazine and Time Inc. have long stood for journalistic excellence. That excellence was recognized again last week when Time Inc. editorial director Walter Isaacson, who served as TIME's managing editor from 1996 through 2000, was named chairman and chief executive of AOL Time Warner's CNN News Group...
...asked by his boss at the Chinese Academy of Sciences to go xia hai--literally, "jump into the sea"--abandon research and launch a computer company. Last month that company, Legend Holdings, partnered with AOL Time Warner (parent of TIME) to expand Internet service in China. With Legend granted a 51% stake in the venture, Liu, 56, appears poised to lead the opening of a massive Net market...
...have seen a partial divergence on this case. That doesn't mean there was a right decision and a wrong decision. But take a merger that was larger than this one, AOL Time Warner [parent company of TIME]. There the European Commission authorized the merger well before the FTC did, and I would say with less heavy remedies...