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...world Diller comes from, you don't pay a premium for unprofitable businesses. But in the Internet economy, where almost nobody has made a profit yet (and certainly Lycos hasn't), that hasn't kept Yahoo from shelling out $4.35 billion for GeoCities, or stopped the Internet portal @Home from paying $6 billion for Excite--both deals made at hefty price premiums. Of course, they used their richly priced shares as currency. Diller's offer to merge part of his USA Networks with Lycos to form a new company, of which Lycos would own 30%, values Lycos at approximately...
Diller, who made an unsuccessful run at Paramount in 1994 using stock from the shop-at-home company QVC, has been seen by the Internet community as crashing the party with a most unwelcome piece of news: your companies aren't worth as much as you think. (And for a few wobbly days early last week, he was right.) Wetherell and his ilk are now seeking to show Diller the door. "He's Barry Diller, he's famous, he's a great dealmaker, but he may have overstepped," says Joe Butt, senior analyst at Forrester Research...
Valuation questions aside, old-media and new-media firms have to link up. Nearly every old-media firm needs some kind of new-media footprint to distribute its content and capitalize on the e-commerce and marketing opportunities offered by the Internet. AT&T, for instance, controls Net portal @Home and cable company TCI. Last week it made a bid for Mediaone, another cable firm with investments in entertainment. Thus AT&T wants to deliver everything to everybody--from phone service to cable TV to e-commerce--over a variety of networks...
...much damage as they could possibly do, destroy as many children as they could and go out in flames." The remains of their preparations were evident, he says: the barrel of a gun was clearly visible on the dresser of one suspect when investigators entered his room at home...
Craig took off his white baseball hat and hid it. When the killers walked by, they saw Isaiah and called him a "nigger." He pleaded with them not to shoot, just let him go home, he wanted his mom, and they pulled the trigger. Then they shot Matt. Craig, covered in his friends' blood, lay very, very still. As he told Katie Couric two mornings later, in an account almost unbearable to watch, Craig began praying for courage. "God told me to get out of there," he said. So he got up and started to run, yelling to others...