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...Vivendi fell as much as 40 percent on the Paris Stock Exchange that day as Le Monde questioned the company's accounting practices and Moody's cut Vivendi's credit rating to junk bond status. In New York, other big media stocks tumbled as well, including AOL Time Warner (corporate overlord of this writer) on renewed fears that the accounting for such large, multidimensional companies had become too hard to follow. By Friday the stocks had made an uneasy recovery - the prices of AOL and Vivendi returned to the levels they had been at before the Messier announcement...
...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...
...Level 4 operators, made up of everyone from real estate companies to apartment-house owners. "The oddest part of it all is that the cable operators themselves don't get the lion's share of the money. The Level 4 operators do," says Michael Lynton, head of AOL Time Warner's international ventures. "Ultimately the economics of the business have to change for cable operators to be interested in further investment...
...sporadically around the country, haven't drawn complaints. And viewers have grown used to captions on TVs at gyms and airports, advocates say, which may make the studios' case less persuasive to a jury. Several of the defendants, including 20th Century Fox and TIME's parent company, AOL Time Warner, declined to comment...
...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...