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...gases from a fire in an underground transmitter exploded, sending a fireball more than 70 feet in the air, said Deputy Chief Gerald Reardon of the Cambridge Fire Department (CFD). No one was injured in the blast...
...Time Warner chief executive Gerald Levin and AOL boss Steve Case, the common experience of groping through a rapidly mutating economy made this deal in some ways inevitable. In AOL, Case had built a brand, a customer base and (by Internet standards) healthy profits. But he faced a future that may see Internet access become a commodity, and he lacked access to the leading source of broadband--the fat, fast pipes of cable television that could carry vast amounts of Internet content. And Case didn't have much in the way of content either. Time Warner's cable-television system...
...valuation. In the end, the deal was this: Time Warner shareholders will be given 1.5 shares in the new entity, while AOL's will get a one-for-one swap. That gives AOL stockholders 55 percent of the new company, which will be headed up by Time Warner CEO Gerald Levin, and gives Time Warner equity a shot in the arm. After all, before the merger AOL's market capitalization had been $163.4 billion, nearly double Time Warner's $83.3 billion. Levin acknowledged there had been some tough bargaining on valuation, given, as he delicately...
...Bicentennial Wagon Train capsule: along with the signatures of 22 million Americans, it was stolen on July 4, 1976, just before Gerald Ford was to bury...