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- Blu-ray buzzkill: the death-spiral
- Will consumers upgrade to Blu-ray? The CEO & co-founder of fast growing Netflix believes mailed DVDs shall be replaced by web-sent movies. And a recent Harris [no relation, darn it] Poll finds that people today are less likely to buy a Blu-ray player than they were last year. ...
- Tags: Time Warner Inc., Blu-ray, Harris Poll Number, DVD, Consumer Electronics, Personal Technology, Home Entertainment, Robin Harris
- Blog posts 2009-06-23
- Time Warner sets AOL spin-off; Separation 'best outcome'; Worth $5 billion?
- Time Warner sets AOL spin-off; Separation 'best outcome'; Worth $5 billion?$5 Billion??? Are They Crazy??AOL isn't worth $5, let alone $5 billion. It has been a millstone around the neck of Time Warner for almost a decade. After the spin off we should soon see AOL's well deserved demise.Good Bye...
- Tags: Internet service providers (ISPs), America Online Inc., Worth $5, Time Warner Inc.
- Discussion threads 2009-05-28
- Time Warner sets AOL spin-off; Separation 'best outcome'; Worth $5 billion?
- AOL will be an independent publicly traded company again as Time Warner solidified plans to spin off the ailing unit, which some analysts estimate to be worth about $5 billion. In a statement Thursday, Time Warner put more meat on its plans to spin off AOL. Executives...
- Tags: Time Warner Inc., America Online Inc., Channel Management, Marketing, Larry Dignan
- Blog posts 2009-05-28
- Time Warner: AOL's revenue slide continues; We plan to buy Google's 5% AOL stake
- Updated: Time Warner's first quarter was weighed down by its AOL unit, which saw revenue fall 23 percent. Time Warner CEO Jeff Bewkes reiterated that the company is looking for "the right ownership structure for AOL" and the company plans to buy back a 5 percent stake owned by Google. ...
- Tags: Revenue, Google Inc., Time Warner Inc., America Online Inc., Company, IPO, Investment, Operational Accounting, Financial Accounting, Financial Services, Finance, Larry Dignan
- Blog posts 2009-04-29
- Time Warner: AOL's revenue slide continues
- Time Warner: AOL's revenue slide continuesAOL?You mean they're still around? Weren't they big in the 20th century? You know, when all the new Internet companies earned money the "old fashion" way: They siphoned it directly from the customer's bank accounts.AOL is best suited for AppleIf Jobs tells the...
- Tags: Operational accounting, America Online Inc., Time Warner Inc., revenue
- Discussion threads 2009-04-29
- What Price Bandwidth? Time Warner Cable Should Not Back Off
- Let Time Warner Cable charge whatever it wants for bandwidth on the Internet. This is a free country. If you decide to go elsewhere, that's the penalty to TWC. But TWC should not back off on its usage-metered billing plans. People who don't download movies should not...
- Tags: Time Warner Inc., Bandwidth, Verizon Communications Inc., Time Warner Cable Inc., Internet, Tom Steinert-Threlkeld
- Blog posts 2009-04-16
- TWC defends tiered pricing, while one DSL provider is happy to pick up fleeing customers
- Frontier Comms in Rochester: 'We have gotten hundreds of calls from Time Warner customers into our call centers. I guess it's been a public relations crisis for Time Warner.' by Richard Koman
- Tags: Time Warner Inc., DSL, Net Neutrality, Pricing Strategy, TWC, Hobbs, Public Relations, Broadband Internet, Marketing, Corporate Communications, Telecommunications, Richard Koman
- Blog posts 2009-04-16
- AOL names Google's Tim Armstrong CEO
- Time Warner revamped AOL's management team Thursday naming Google senior vice president Tim Armstrong CEO of its struggling Internet unit. Time Warner said current AOL chief Randy Falco and operating chief Ron Grant will leave the company. The writing on the wall: Time Warner is planning to...
- Tags: Google Inc., Time Warner Inc., America Online Inc., Business Structures, Development Tools, Internet, Finance, Software Development, Software/Web Development, Larry Dignan
- Blog posts 2009-03-12
- AOL ad revenue slide continues; Time Warner writes down acquisitions
- AOL ad revenue slide continues; Time Warner writes down acquisitionsAnd to make things worse,AOL hasn't sent out any new CD's in months! How am I supposed to increase my collection?
- Tags: Mergers & Acquisitions, Corporate law, America Online Inc., Time Warner Inc., acquisition, advertisement
- Discussion threads 2009-02-04
- AOL ad revenue slide continues; Time Warner writes down acquisitions
- Time Warner's fourth quarter financial results showed more pain for its struggling AOL unit. In the fourth quarter statement, AOL revenue fell 23 percent from a year ago to $968 million. Ad revenue fell 18 percent and subscription revenue fell 27 percent from a year ago. AOL...
- Tags: Revenue, Acquisition, Time Warner Inc., Advertisement, America Online Inc., Earnings, Operational Accounting, Financial Accounting, Finance, Larry Dignan
- Blog posts 2009-02-04
- Could a Time Warner-Viacom game of chicken boost online video?
- The content push from television to Internet could get a boost tonight if Viacom follows through with a threat to pull Nickelodeon, MTV, Comedy Central and others from the Time Warner Cable lineup at Midnight. It's coming down to an 11th hour game of chicken but Viacom has shown in...
- Tags: Time Warner Inc., Online Video, Video, CBS Corp., Viacom Inc., Games, TVs, Internet, Tv & Home Theater, Personal Technology, Home Entertainment, Sam Diaz
- Blog posts 2008-12-31
- AOL's ad revenue takes a hit
- Time Warner reported its third quarter results on Wednesday and revealed that the AOL business continues to slide. On the bright side, AOL's results could have been worse. Time Warner's results statement were decent all things considered. Time Warner reported flat revenue at $11.7 billion with earnings...
- Tags: Revenue, Time Warner Inc., Advertisement, America Online Inc., Operational Accounting, Finance, Larry Dignan
- Blog posts 2008-11-05
- Blu-ray is dead - heckuva job, Sony!
- Blu-ray is in a death spiral. 12 months from now Blu-ray will be a videophile niche, not a mass market product. With only a 4% share of US movie disc sales and HD download capability arriving, the Blu-ray disc Association BDA is still smoking dope. Even $150...
- Tags: Job, Sony Corp., Time Warner Inc., Blu-ray Disc, Blu-ray Disc Association, Blu-Ray, DVD, Consumer Electronics, Personal Technology, Home Entertainment, Robin Harris
- Blog posts 2008-10-28
- Odds for Yahoo-AOL deal may increase
- Yahoo's board reportedly set the stage for additional talks with Time Warner's AOL unit for some kind of deal. According to a relatively thin Financial Times report Yahoo's board approved talks with Time Warner about the future of AOL. Time Warner has been trying to unload AOL...
- Tags: Time Warner Inc., America Online Inc., Yahoo! Inc., Corporate Governance, Performance Management, Business Operations, Corporate Law, Human Resources, Workforce Management, Larry Dignan
- Blog posts 2008-09-24
- AOL's dial-up business: Is there a (minor) bidding war brewing?
- AOL's dial-up business may be worth a little more than expected--especially if Liberty Media and EarthLink get into a bidding skirmish for Time Warner's most unloved asset. Let's be clear: AOL's dial-up business is dying, but it still throws off cash and still has 8.1 million subscribers....
- Tags: EarthLink Inc., Time Warner Inc., America Online Inc., Liberty Media Corp., Asset Management, Operational Planning, Business Operations, Larry Dignan
- Blog posts 2008-08-12
- Time Warner's Olympic boost, courtesy NBC
- Time Warner's Olympic boost, courtesy NBCThe Olympics are GreekI wonder if the Greeks agreed to having the Olympics in other countries?
- Tags: Olympic Boost, NBC, Time Warner Inc.
- Discussion threads 2008-08-07
- Time Warner's Olympic boost, courtesy NBC
- If you’re Jeff Bewkes, the chief executive of Time Warner, you might get pleasantly surprised over the next couple weeks at the number of your Time Warner Cable subscribers who use their Internet connections to access streams of video of the 25 sports being sent live via www.nbcolympics.com. ...
- Tags: nbc, time warner inc., cablevision systems corp., corporate communications, business ethics, internet, digital video, marketing, leadership, management, personal technology, tom steinert-threlkeld
- Blog posts 2008-08-07
- AOL officially split, but revenue tumbles and ad sales anemic
- When you have something like Batman: The Dark Knight to talk about it's safe to say that Time Warner doesn't want to yap a whole lot about AOL. There's a good reason for that: AOL revenue fell 16 percent in the second quarter and advertising revenue for the online unit...
- Tags: Revenue, Time Warner Inc., Advertisement, America Online Inc., Operational Accounting, Finance, Larry Dignan
- Blog posts 2008-08-06
- AOL ready to be dealt in pieces; Who's buying?
- Time Warner has reportedly completed its internal restructuring so it can officially separate AOL's dial-up business from its content and advertising assets. The split is likely to become official when Time Warner delivers earnings on Wednesday. The big question: Who is buying? This move is a bit...
- Tags: Time Warner Inc., America Online Inc., Microsoft Corp., Asset Management, Internet Service Providers (ISPs), Operational Planning, Business Operations, Internet, Larry Dignan
- Blog posts 2008-08-04
- Schoolyard antics take Microhoo drama to new level
- Something doesn't smell quite right here. Techcrunch reports earlier today that Jonathan Miller, former AOL chief executive and one of the names that popped up as part of Team Icahn on the newly expanded Yahoo board, has been blocked from serving on that board by a non-compete...
- Tags: Time Warner Inc., Yahoo! Inc., Corporate Governance, Business Operations, Corporate Law, Sam Diaz
- Blog posts 2008-08-01
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