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...incentive to work together, the merged company's 2001 plan includes a provision for granting stock options to each of the combined company's 85,000 employees. Time Warner's compensation will probably shift too, from a salary and bonus system to one linked more closely to stock performance, not unlike...
...synergy? The two companies have already found ways to boost growth by cross-selling subscriptions and advertising and running promotions for Time Warner content on AOL. Last summer a promotion on AOL is credited with boosting box-office returns for The Perfect Storm. Perhaps the best success so far has come from collaboration between Time Inc. president Don Logan and Pittman, who engineered a scheme to sell magazine subscriptions via AOL. So far, the combination has produced more than 500,000 orders...
...relaunching Netscape next year, positioning the browser as the central clearinghouse for Time Warner's content. That's not prime Internet real estate, and there are some murmurs within Time Warner that AOL's quest for its own content is exceeded by its lust for rent-paying deals. Don't expect Time Inc.'s Money.com to replace CBS MarketWatch on AOL anytime soon...
...measure of success, of course, is whether AOL Time Warner can meet the stratospheric financial goals Case and Levin set a year ago, when they promised Wall Street that in 2001 the company's operating profit would grow by 30%, to $11 billion. Despite the Internet downturn, AOL's growth this year is still an impressive 23% (the company is adding about 1 million subscribers every six weeks). But Time Warner's growth is beginning to slow. The movie and music businesses are troubled. And if economic doldrums hit next year, ad revenues are likely to take a hit. "They...
...T/TCI). In a staff memo just days after the merger was announced, Case and Levin asserted that the new company would "fundamentally change the way people communicate." That's a tall order. And no matter how hot the paradigm or how far and fast the technology reaches, AOL Time Warner is still in the business of satisfying finicky consumers, who want content from everybody, for nothing if possible. It will take more than synergy for this new Internet-age media colossus to succeed. And as Case and Levin would be the first to suggest, there's no room for failure...