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...Liberty owns the Starz and Encore premium movie channels, plus 50% of Discovery Communications (which includes Discovery, Animal Planet, Learning and Travel channels) and 43% of the home-shopping channel QVC. In addition, it holds valuable stakes in Vivendi (3%), News Corp. (18%), USA Interactive (20%) and AOL Time Warner (4%), the parent company of this magazine. Liberty also invests in cable and programming companies in Latin America and Japan, where its Jupiter Communications is the largest cable provider (though still a money loser...
...began trading AOL Instant Messenger screen names. A few at first. Not everyone knew what AIM was, but the instant messaging playing field was being readied for what later culminated in a huge battle between the world’s largest software giants—Microsoft and AOL Time-Warner. At college, AOL won that battle. And AIM changed the way we deal with one another...
...technology history of his own. While plodding through his first-year classes, the young Cape Cod native was programming a little ditty called Napster, an application that promised to make MP3 distribution easy and fast. Turns out he was way ahead of more than just the rich executives at Warner and BMG. While students eagerly traded the latest Britney songs, Harvard’s Internet connection started feeling the weight of a whole new breed of traffic. Students weren’t just sending messages and peeking at websites any more...
...this interest in off-kilter characters that led him to the original Insomnia, a 1997 Norwegian film. When he found out Warner Bros. was planning a remake, he applied for the job. The producers wanted a more established director, but they came around after a private prerelease screening of Memento. Steven Soderbergh, a Nolan fan, signed on as an executive producer. Although Insomnia's budget was 10 times Memento's, says Soderbergh, "I felt the odds of making a distinctive film would be increased if they hired somebody young and hungry...
...promote Dossa and Joe, admits the aggressive tactic was a bad idea. But it raises the bigger question of who dictates what DVR owners watch. One in five never watch commercials, which scares television executives who depend on advertising revenue. A group of media majors like AOL Time Warner have even sued to stop DVRS from automatically skipping commercials. But as the Dossa and Joe fiasco shows, interfering with viewing habits is likely to backfire. After all, the remote's off button is still easy to find. THE BOURSE No tears in this beer It's Miller time for South...