Word: warners
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...most sophisticated self-propagating sites are the so-called MUDS (multi-user dimensions). These virtual worlds have flourished in text-only form for years; now faster networks and better software tools let developers create graphic 3-D versions. Trippy futuristic environments such as Time Warner's Palace Website and the landscapes of Worlds Inc. invite Net surfers to wander in and explore, chatting with strangers, flirting, picking fights, hatching plots...
...YORK CITY: Now comes the hard part. A little more than a year after the deal was announced, shareholders of Time Warner and Turner Broadcasting voted voted Thursday to approve the $7.5 billion merger. After clearing the considerable hurdles of an FTC review and the opposition of U.S. West, a large Time Warner shareholder, Time Warner chairman Gerald Levin and former Turner head Ted Turner have a daunting task ahead of them. More than 98% of the shareholders approved the merger and they now demand strong action to finally lift the value of the stock. Since Time and Warner merged...
...brand-new, much-ballyhooed 24-hour Fox cable news channel is by standing outside the company's Sixth Avenue studios in midtown Manhattan and looking through the windows. After being frozen out of the New York market, Fox parent company News Corp. filed suit Wednesday to force Time Warner Cable to carry the fledgling network there. Fox argues that Time Warner, under an arrangement with the FTC specifying that it would carry another cable news channel besides CNN as it merges with Turner Broadcasting, broke a prior agreement by carrying the joint Microsoft-NBC news network MSNBC in this critical...
Laurence Kirshbaum, CEO of Warner Books, admits that at first he could not believe women in the '90s would want this book: "My reaction to it is one of great sadness," he says, "in that if this is what relations between the sexes have come down to, I think we're in trouble." Kirshbaum is weeping all the way to the bank: Rules II is already under...
...likely also-rans--Paramount, Warner, Universal and the rest--have begun courting Lucas, who remains holed up at his Marin County office. "He ain't easy to woo," laments a studio chairman. "He's not easy to get to." Handicappers say Lucas talks first to Fox, which has shown its good faith by lavishing millions on the video boxed set and on redoing the original trilogy for theaters. Fox also has a big bargaining chip: Lucas owns the copyrights to the Empire and Jedi installments, but Star Wars belongs to Fox. A friend says Lucas wants to complete his collection...