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A 10 page paper that discusses the merger of these two huge corporations. Here was a merger like no other. Not only was it the largest merger in history, it was the first merger of a bricks-and-mortar corporation and a cyberspace Internet corporation, which created a new kind of company that crosses several industries. This paper provides background information on each corporation and the benefits that each company gained from the merger and the potential benefits for the consumer. The writer also discuses why the two companies wanted to merger. The conditions of the FTC and FCC approvals are outlined along with the conditions from the European Union. Bibliography lists 9 sources.
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2000). At the time of the decision for AOL to acquire Time Warner, AOL had a market capitalization of $163.4 billion and Time Warner had a market capitalization of $83.3
billion (BBC News, 2000). The deal was a stock-for-stock merger with Time Warner investors receiving 1.5 shares of the new AOL Time Warner stock (BBC News, January 2000). Time Warner
owned a number of television channels, including TNT, CNN, Home Box Office (HBO), and the Cartoon Network plus it owned numerous books, magazines and web sites (BBC News, January 2000).
Its best known magazines are People, Fortune, Sports Illustrated and Time (BBC News, 2000; MacNeil/Lehrer Productions, 2000). Besides all that, Time Warner is very active in the music business, it
produces numerous feature films and television programs and it operates a cable access business, which also offers broadband Internet access (BBC News, January 2000). Among its different enterprises, Time Warner
reaches well in excess of 100 million people, as many as 175 million (MacNeil/Lehrer Productions, 2000). AOL is the largest of all Internet service providers in the world (BBC News,
2000). AOL operates two global Online services: AOL with 20 million subscribers and CompuServe with just over 2.2 million subscribers (BBC News, January 2000). AOL also owns Netscape, which it
purchased in 1999 and it owns Digital City and ICQ, an internet messaging service, among other things (BBC News, January 2000). Aside from its subsidiary companies, AOL is also involved
in a number of strategic alliances, most notably with Sun Microsystems, which is intended to compete directly with Microsoft (BBC News, January 2000). AOL subscribers tend to be very loyal
to AOL despite its intermittent problems but most of AOLs subscribers are on a dial-up service that is slow and often unreliable (Fortune, 2001). Time Warner executives knew that AOL
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