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Microsoft, Yahoo! chatting up old flames?
News and then just its search business - is talking about alternative deals with Time Warner, which owns AOL, and News Corp, parent of MySpace, a source close to Microsoft said, but any negotiations remain in preliminary stages.silicon.com Classics [03 Jul 2008]
YouTube gets chums in the music business
News In mid-September, Warner Music Group signed a similar deal with YouTube to allow legal use of its music, video content, artist interviews and other original programming. Separately on Monday, Google announced it has made a deal with Sony BMG Music... [09 Oct 2006]
Disney splashes $7.4bn on Pixar buy
News New Yorker media writer Ken Auletta, who has followed Disney for many years, compared the deal to Time Warner's merger with AOL. Both Disney and Time Warner represent venerable media companies that stumbled as their businesses went high tech, and... [25 Jan 2006]
Vonage leads VoIP pack in US
News Meanwhile cable companies are on the rise, with Time Warner Cable holding 25 per cent of the market and Cablevision 19 per cent. The company currently owns 32 per cent of the residential and SOHO market in North America, though that's its lowest... [26 Oct 2005]
Murdoch casts his net over online search
News AOL is also in the process of reinventing itself as a free portal, opening up its Time Warner content that was previously walled off to subscribers and banking on the surging demand for broadband access. [15 Aug 2005]
DRM investor could swing EU Microsoft enquiry
News A third company is looking to join Microsoft and Time Warner as an investor in digital rights management firm ContentGuard, a move that may help Microsoft reduce European antitrust concerns regarding its stake in ContentGuard. [23 Nov 2004]
Microsoft loses court case - and $521m
News Microsoft said in May it would pay AOL Time Warner $750m to settle a lawsuit brought on by America Online subsidiary Netscape. The university owns the patents for the technology, which it licensed to Eolas in 1994. [12 Aug 2003]
Andreessen looks forward - as Opsware looks to Europe
News It recently settled a lawsuit with AOL Time Warner, Netscape's now parent, by paying $750m. Microsoft owns over 90 per cent of the browser market nowadays. He said Netscape had been looking at integrating into the browser features such as... [02 Jul 2003]
Microsoft calls AOL a 'monopolist'
News According to US reports, Pepperman showed District Judge Colleen Kollar-Kotelly a draft version of an internal AOL report written in May last year in which an AOL employee recommended that the company use its Time Warner media empire to promote... [05 Apr 2002]
FCC gives cable operators thumbs up
News The Federal Communications Commission (FCC) laid down the law to force cable companies to share network capacity with other ISPs when AOL, which owns most of the cable in the US, merged with Time Warner. [15 Mar 2002]
AOL joins NTL tug of love
News A week after it was revealed that US media magnate John Malone was courting NTL's Barclay Knapp, AOL Time Warner is also understood to be eyeing up a takeover of the troubled cable company. Malone, whose Liberty Media owns a 25 per cent in Telewest... [18 Feb 2002]
Cash injection key to NTL future
News Likely investors include Liberty Surf, which owns 25 per cent of the UK's other cable interest Telewest, and AOL Time Warner. Troubled cable company NTL is understood to be the verge of hiring Credit Suisse First Boston to help it sell off a stake... [17 Jan 2002]
Christmas sale: Vivendi gobbles up USA Networks unit for $10.3bn
News Vivendi already projects a strong European presence, but it needs to compete with pan-global players such as AOL Time Warner in the US - hence the deal with USA Networks said Rebecca Ulph, analyst at Forrester Research. [18 Dec 2001]
The Ovum View: What will become of iPlanet?
Comment This raises doubts as to the importance to AOL of the server-side iPlanet technologies - doubts which have only been reinforced with the merger of AOL and Time Warner, and the increasing focus on content and services. [15 Nov 2001]
AOL told to stop version 6.0 shipments
News US District Judge A Howard Matz claims there may be a copyright infringement with code owned by PlayMedia Systems - and if proved correct, it could cost AOL Time Warner millions of dollars in damages. [31 Oct 2001]
