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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...
...Show and The Love Boat, while the fast-growing Game Show Network revives the leisure-suited splendor of Match Game and Tattle Tales. Thanks to cable's ravenous maw for content, more diverse and complex shows are entering the rerun canon. Cartoon Network (which, like TIME, is owned by AOL Time Warner) not only spun off the Boomerang channel of old cartoons for nostalgic adults (Get it? Boomerang?) but also inspired a heated was-Bugs-Bunny-racist debate last month when it excised anti-Japanese World War II-era shorts from a Bugs marathon. One-season wonders like...
...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...
...company that could be first in line: AOL Time Warner, the parent company of TIME. In recent talks about renewing AOL's spot on Windows XP, Microsoft sought indemnity from future antitrust claims. AOL refused, and the deal died. AOL might sue, claiming that Netscape, the Internet browser it now owns, was harmed by Microsoft's monopolistic behavior. Estimates of potential damage are in the billions of dollars. Other companies that could sue: Microsoft-loathing Sun Microsystems, RealNetworks and Oracle...