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...night we met, Forbes came to the back of his chartered Gulf Stream turboprop and asked me, of all people, the inside story on the AOL-Time Warner merger. When I told him I had hoped to ask his take on the whole mess, along with his advice on what to do with the stock, he said sell. "Nobody ever lost money taking a profit," he said. Two days after I didn't take his advice, God punished me. The stock had dropped 25 points...
...corporate history. Time Warner, the immense media conglomerate that had sprung from the loins of the magazine you are now reading--having failed to beat the Internet upstarts with its own efforts--had decided to surrender to them for the best price it could get, about $162 billion in AOL stock. The companies valued the combination at $350 billion...
...Northern Virginia on Friday night, Jimmy Lynn, an AOL marketing executive, got an inkling that something was happening. "I usually go to the Redskins games with a guy from the mergers and acquisitions group," Lynn explained. When the friend canceled--for the Redskins' first playoff game in seven years--Lynn knew it was not just something, but really something. In downtown Manhattan early Monday, the 7:30 a.m. daily research call emanating from the fifth-floor conference room of Merrill Lynch headquarters was handled by analysts Henry Blodget and Jessica Reif Cohen. Traders who had nearly run off the road...
...AOL FOR COUCH POTATOES WebTV still hasn't caught fire, but that didn't stop America Online from pursuing its own dream of PC-TV convergence. At CES, the world's largest Internet service provider quietly unveiled AOLTV, an interactive TV service via set-top box that will introduce Instant Messages, buddy lists and AOL-style Web browsing to the boob tube by year's end. Hughes Network Systems showed a new form of its DirecTV digital satellite receiver complete with the AOLTV service, and Philips demoed a cable version. Prices were not announced, but current AOL members will probably...
...leave aside for a moment the five lawsuits (and counting) that have been filed in the Delaware Court of Chancery protesting the purchase of Time Warner (TIME Digital's parent company) by AOL. One company that's famously litigious in the protection of its assets is Apple, and with the impending debut of its all-new operating system, code-named Aqua, Apple is cracking down on anyone who might infringe on its "look and feel." Its latest target is skinz.org, a site that offers software designed to make Microsoft's Windows operating system look and feel just like Aqua...