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For AOL, the dowry is not only Time Warner's news-and-entertainment empire, but also its cable television infrastructure, which will prove invaluable if the Virginia-based juggernaut is to dominate the next, broadband phase of Internet development as comprehensively as it has ruled the current era. "Time Warner...
Moved PermanentlyMoved PermanentlyFortune Investor Datathough the two corporations' executives stressed the compatibility of their corporate cultures, the match may be discussed for years to come in MBA programs. "This merger has created a really big company," says Saporito, "and the history of big mergers in other industries is that they...
And the future? Assuming it survives any regulatory challenges, the move will inevitably set off a rash of media-Internet marriages as competitors of both AOL and Time Warner reposition themselves to challenge the new corporation. Wall Street certainly thinks so; even as Time Warner stock spent the early trading...
Bill Gross is frustrated. Although he keeps a meticulous spreadsheet of all the new companies he hopes to create - 29 at last count - he just can't find the time to start them. As chief of idealab!, which is based in Pasadena, Calif., and has spawned some 30 Internet companies...
"Coming up with ideas is easy," he says. "I just live my life, and every time I see a problem, I want to fix it." Take his most recent start-up, financial site iExchange, which launched in October. Gross had been trolling online financial message boards one day last December...