Word: tw
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...embraces local culture. An ethnic slur, taike - which Taiwan's mainlanders used decades ago to describe the uncultured locals they found on the island - has become something cool. Taike now means a "Taiwanese character" (as in "that guy's a real character"). In his hit rap song I Love TW [Taiwan] Girls, taike icon MC Hotdog even snubs a supermodel for the down-to-earth Taiwanese...
...Deal ends up being simple: AOL TW provides the content, from The Sopranos and Madonna on demand to TIME magazine. And Microsoft provides the transactional software--an AOL link built right into the operating system. The companies work together to steer eyeballs. Then they split the billions of dollars of take...
...exclusive access to its cable network. That would disadvantage other Internet service providers, all of whom are looking to cable as the most versatile broadband delivery alternative. Companies like Disney complained that in addition to limiting open access, the new company might restrict interactive TV (ITV) services over TW cable. Then a roster of instant-messaging companies charged that AOL was preventing any competitor's messages from penetrating AOL's proprietary IM architecture. By the fall, when AOL Time Warner had initially estimated they would close the deal, "the FTC was hitting us with a new issue every week," says...
Hence, when the first night of the ABC blackout separated viewers from Regis, TW was cooked. Worse still, the words that the company emblazoned on the blank screen that normally would have been carrying ABC programming was a piece of Orwellian newspeak that suggested precisely the opposite of what it said: "Disney Has Taken ABC Away from...
Meanwhile, Time Warner and Disney will soon be back at the table. In New York City, TW has offered to make nice by giving all its cable customers a refund on two full days of basic service, plus a free month of a premium channel they weren't already receiving (the latter is a tactic that used to be called sales promotion). In Washington chief Disney lobbyist Preston Padden was serving up unctuousness by the ladle. After the FCC officially scolded Time Warner in midweek, Padden intoned, "We are incredibly grateful to the people at the FCC, who were placed...