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After Time Warner's merger with America Online, Africana.com's content will be incorporated into the AOL service, allowing for it to reach an even broader audience, a possibility that excites Gates and his colleagues...
TIME.com ON AOL To read the complete transcript of our interview with Chris Ware, visit time.com
Other new-economy players are also beginning to see the power merchant as a prize partner. IBM and AOL have joined with Enron to form the New Power Co. (TNPC), an independent start-up that will offer pricing schemes and a choice of power and gas service for residential and small-business customers. Enron provides the electricity; AOL enables customers to buy it via the Web; and IBM takes care of the billing. "It's ludicrous that we're in the 21st century, and you still have people jumping over fences to read meters," says Skilling, pointing out that...
...where the market goes from here is no longer up to Greenspan. Investors could get back to focusing on earnings reports and profit forecasts, although mental knots over news like that produced a very dispirited July for NASDAQ. Or the next object of suspense could be the Time Warner-AOL merger decision, due in the fall from the FCC, which could set the regulatory climate for at least the next year (Time Warner, of course, is parent of this site). Or even the election, as Monday's damage-control dance continues with Gore sounding the battle cry and Lieberman whispering...
READY, AIM...FILE! America Online saw its ubiquitous AOL Instant Messenger software (AIM for short) hijacked last week by a new and fiendishly clever program called Aimster. Aimster takes AIM's popular buddy-list feature and adds a file-swapping function a la the controversial Napster. To date, AOL has made no move against Aimster, but it's clear that the would-be future parent of Warner Music (and of TIME) will have some tough choices ahead. Aimster is available at www.aimster.com at least...