Topic: Time Warner Inc.

Seems So Long Ago!

The holiday break allowed me to read at least one book: Nina Munk's superb Fools Rush In: Steve Case, Jerry Levin, and the Unmaking of AOL Time Warner. The book is a fast read and a tour de force that explores the motivations and ...READ»

Erasing AOL from Time Warner

Tomorrow, AOL Time Warner will finally take the AOL out of its corporate name, a final acknowledgement that the much ballyhooed 2001 merger turned out to be a big bust -- probably the biggest bust of the New Economy. Some analysts ...READ»

Break It Up!

Cendant Corporation will become four companies this summer. As the article states on the bottom, this is part of a recent trend of large corporations splitting up into smaller parts. With a possible AOL Time Warner break up to come, ...READ»

Sign of the Dot-Com Apocalypse II

Perhaps the greatest business blunder of the Internet Age is the AOL Time Warner merger. Today's New York Post reports, as we first noted yesterday, that AOL may be dropped from the media company's official corporate name. This is ...READ»

Sign of the Dot-Com Apocalypse

As if we needed any other signs that the reign of high-flying internet companies is over, AOL Time Warner is considering dropping AOL from its name. It's probably a good thing, considering AOL's real place in the Time Warner ...READ»

Merger Meltdown

The voracious corporate appetite for mergers in recent years has caused a bad case of indigestion for mega companies like AOL Time Warner, DaimlerChrysler, and J.P. Morgan Chase. Do these partnerships add up to less than the sum of their parts?READ»

Strategy

It's FItting that Don Logan, the legendary Time Inc. magazine man, now oversees AOL. A few years ago, Logan was asked what he thought of Time's Internet portal, Pathfinder. He responded by saying that it looked less like a portal and ...READ»

A Monthly Column on Culture

Anne Here's my take on business and the natural order. Synergy was all a big mistake. Nature is hardwired for antisynergy. Do coyotes collaborate with sheep? Do fish empower dragonflies in the pond? Naturally, that brings AOL Time ...READ»

AOL's True Believers

Wall Street is down on AOL Time Warner -- and worried about its moguls. Yet deeper in the ranks, a cadre of executives is working hard to bring the troubled colossus to life. Here's how a new cast of players is building the future of the world's biggest media company.READ»

Freelance Friendly

Working Today's Freelancers Union recently surveyed its New York-based members about which companies treat freelancers best. Here are the top 10 results: Time Warner BBC Conde Nast Publications HBO MTV Networks Ogilvy & Mather The ...READ»

Dead Man Walking

On the verge of a revival last year, AOL suddenly imploded. The inside story of a journey to nowhere.READ»

• You've Got Problems!
• AOL's Greatest Hope
• AOL's Greatest Hits

This Week's Top Tech News: Elimination Edition

Put an end to blindness, bullshit, copyright laws and Time Warner's dark hegemony? Sure: the top tech stories of the week are all about the death of things that Web nerds hate--and that includes Bing, whether you like the idyllic backgrounds or not. READ»

Wonder Whedon

It has been revealed that Joss Whedon, creator of Buffy the Vampire Slayer, will direct a Wonder Woman film. This continues the trend of AOL Time Warner finally pushing their DC Comics properties, catching up with Marvel and their ...READ»

ISPs to Add Mobile Broadband to Service Plans

Internet providers like Comcast and Time Warner are beginning to offer mobile 3G service as a bundle with home Internet, reports the New York Times. The goal: undercut wireless providers like Verizon and AT&T, who sell such ...READ»

Relics of the New Economy: Where Are They Now?

Where Are They Now? Click here to let us know which once-prominent business leaders and innovators you want to catch up on, and the Fast Company team will do its best to get the goods on those long gone. Who have readers asked ...READ»

The Bigs of the Blogs

The most popular places in the blogosphere, according to Technorati, as measured by the number of links to those blogs during the past six months.READ»

Who Will Be the Godfather of Web Video?

Well-funded, big-studio-backed comedy-video Web sites have taken more hits than they've made. Does anyone have a plan that's not a joke? READ»

• The 9 Most Humorous Websites
• Comedy Is Not Pretty
• So Bad We Forgot to Laugh

Big Media's New Face

In a me-too business, the video titans' Web strategies reveal some fresh experimentation.READ»

Netflix Chooses Blu-Ray

Internet video service Netflix announced that it is supporting Blu-ray, since "the industry has stated its clear preference for Blu-ray" -- according to the press release. The company will no longer purchase HD-DVDs and ...READ»

Digital Matters - Issue 35

"What are the rules of the Digital Road?"READ»

Yahoo is not Microsoft's AOL

I have just finished reading an article in Fortune's February 18th edition saying the merger will be failure and comparing it to the AOL Time-Warner deal. I have seen lots of articles out there about why this deal is going to be ...READ»

How Long Can Free Broadcast TV Last? Not Long, Perhaps

Though Time Warner's CEO Jeff Bewkes has his own agenda to push regarding the future of TV, speaking to the Daily Beast recently he mentioned the future of free-to-air TV. He thinks it hasn't got one, and he may have a point. Among ...READ»

FC Book Club - Use the Tools

While I have been talking a lot this week about the magazine's new book club, it occurs to me that many of you might want to know a little more about the five books you'll be voting on. What makes them special? What new points do ...READ»

You've Got Problems!

A brief history of AOL's misfortunes.READ»

• Dead Man Walking
• AOL’s Year of Pain
• AOL's Greatest Hits

Chapter Seven: From Ecology to Economy

Big Business and the Disconnect from ValueREAD»