Comscore: Traffic jumps at TheStreet.com Nov 21, 2009
And while AOL has seen a decline in advertising revenue as it prepares for its split from Time Warner (NYSE: TWX), it remains king of online advertising. Comscore says AOL Advertising led the October Ad Focus ranking, reaching 91 percent of Americans online. (Washington Business Journal, DC)
AOL cuts to hit Northern Virginia hard Nov 20, 2009
AOL went public in 1992, trading on the Nasdaq under the ticker symbol "AWOL." It moved to the New York Stock Exchange in 1996, trading under the symbol "AOL," the same ticker symbol it will have after its spinoff from Time Warner (NYSE: TWX) next month. AOL had more than 20 million subscribers at its peak. (Washington Business Journal, DC)
Time Warner Declares Spin-off Dividend of AOL Shares Nov 17, 2009
"s" : "twx","k" : "c10,l10,p20,t10","o" : "","j" : "" ... Shares of Time Warner common stock will continue to trade regular way on the New York Stock Exchange (NYSE) under the symbol TWX through the distribution date of December 9, 2009, and thereafter ... TWX Corporate CommunicationsEdward Adler, 212-484-6630Keith Cocozza, 212-484-7482orTWX Investor RelationsDoug Shapiro, 212-484-8926Michael Kopelman, 212-484-8920orAOL Corporate CommunicationsTricia Primrose,... (Yahoo! Wire -- Entertainment News)
AOL spinoff set for Dec. 9 Nov 17, 2009
Time Warner (NYSE: TWX) approved plans to spin off the AOL division in May. Advertising revenue at AOL fell an additional 18 percent last quarter, led by lower paid-search and display advertising on its own sites and by lower sales of ads on third-party sites. (Washington Business Journal, DC)
AOL cuts another 100 jobs Nov 12, 2009
Time Warner (NYSE: TWX) approved plans to spin off the AOL division in May. Once complete, AOL will be a separate, publicly traded company, ending what has largely been a failed merger, since the two combined in 2001. (Washington Business Journal, DC)
Time Warner Looks Ahead to Future Without AOL Nov 6, 2009
Part of the drag on Time Warner's (NYSE: TWX) balance sheet will be shed by the end of the year, as the company reaffirmed its intention to complete the spinoff of AOL in December, undoing the much-ballyhooed mega-merger that took effect in January 2001. "This separation is an important milestone for both companies," Time Warner CEO Jeff Bewkes said this morning on a conference call with analysts. (SmallBusinessComputing)
Buffett's Wrong: 3 Companies That Beat His Oct 24, 2009
But in that decade, it relegated competitors like AltaVista and Lycos (and in a less direct way, Time Warner's (NYSE: TWX) AOL) to the dusty sections of our mental libraries. Just as Google went from zero to 60 in about a decade, so, too, could the mythical guy in his mother's basement. (MSNBC -- Business)
Sometrics Closes Series B Financing Led by Steamboat Ventures Oct 17, 2009
Founded in 2000, Steamboat Ventures has invested in a range of leading digital media and consumer technology companies, including: Fastclick (acquired by VCLK), Iridigm Display Corporation (acquired by QCOM), Pure Digital Technologies (acquired by CSCO), Quigo Technologies (acquired by TWX), Move Networks, Netmovie, and UUSee. For more information, please visit. (Yahoo! Wire -- Entertainment News)
Market Winners & Losers: Constellation Brands, MBIA Oct 2, 2009
Time Warner Inc. (TWX) News that Comcast and NBC Universal may be merging pushed the media giant up 4 ... TWX shares ended Thursday at $30. (Fox News)
Jeremy Allaire: Web Master 2.0 Brightcove closes $59.5M funding round Sep 18, 2009
Existing investors include Accel Partners, Allen & Company LLC, AOL (NYSE: TWX) and General Catalyst Partners. Most Read Stories. (Boston Business Journal, MA)
IAC's Diller: I'm Not Interested in AOL Sep 17, 2009
IAC/InterActiveCorp (IACI) Chief Executive Barry Diller said he has no interest in buying Time Warners (TWX) AOL unit and said he would rather invest in IACs existing businesses than acquire others. In an interview on Tuesday, Diller said he also has no intent on buying a stake in General Electrics (GE) NBC Universal and said he believes media companies to be overvalued, according to a Bloomberg report published Wednesday. (Fox News)
Verizon Confirms: It's Embracing Wi-Fi Sep 10, 2009
Participating networks expected to include GE's (GE) Syfy, Time Warner (TWX) TNT and. 08/27/2009 08:20 PM ET. (Investors Business Daily)
AOL hires new finance chief Aug 28, 2009
Minson helped manage Time Warner Cable s spinoff from parent company His appointment comes as Time Warner (NYSE: TWX) gets ready to spin off the AOL unit as a separate, publicly traded company later this year. It is a return to AOL for Minson, who served as a senior vice president of corporate finance and development before leaving in 2006 to join Time Warner Cable as part of its planned IPO.. (Washington Business Journal, DC)
Despite competition threat, Nielsen signs deal with Time Warner Aug 20, 2009
Time Warner (NYSE: TWX) is including its broadcast, syndication business units and affiliates in the deal including , The CW television network, HBO, , , , and WPCH in Atlanta. It also will include its cable operations, although it s not clear how it might affect , a sister company to the Tampa Bay Business Journal. (Tampa Bay Business Journal, FL)
AOL advertising sales slide Jul 30, 2009
Time Warner (NYSE: TWX), whose businesses span cable, film and publishing, reported second-quarter net income of $519 million, or 43 cents per share, compared with $792 million, or 66 cents per share in the same quarter a year ago. Revenue fell 9 percent to $6. (Baltimore Business Journal, MD)
AOL Leans on Google, Dial-Up to Go It Alone Jul 30, 2009
The filing also indicated that Time Warner (NYSE: TWX) finalized the transaction to repurchase the 5 percent stake in AOL that Google had acquired in 2005. Time Warner paid Google $283 million for its stake in AOL, giving the unit a valuation of $5. (SmallBusinessComputing)
CBS to Join Comcast's On Demand Trial Jul 16, 2009
The news of CBS' (NYSE: CBS) participation in the program closely follows yesterday's announcement that Comcast (NASDAQ: CMCSA) had expanded its partnership with Time Warner (NYSE: TWX) to include premium content from HBO and Cinemax to its on-demand experiment, which is headed for a national trial in the coming weeks. Last month, with a set of principles billed as "TV Everywhere," a trial balloon asserting that cable subscribers who pay for television service should be able to access that same... (SmallBusinessComputing)
Comcast to put HBO, Cinemax shows online Jul 15, 2009
HBO is a subsidiary of Time Warner Inc. (NYSE: TWX). Comcast (NASDAQ: CMCSA,CMCSK) announced On Demand Online last month. (Denver Business Journal, CO)
MapQuest parent spinning off May 29, 2009
In a statement, Time Warner (NYSE: TWX) said that after the proposed separation is complete, AOL will compete as a stand-alone company focused on growing its Web brands and services, which currently reach more than 107 million domestic unique visitors a month, as well as its advertising business, which operates the leading online display network that reaches more than 91 percent of the domestic online audience. AOL will also continue to operate one of the largest Internet access subscription... (Denver Business Journal, CO)
Energized Markets Return to Green May 29, 2009
Existing users please login. Remember me on this computer. (Fox News)
Pirates Go for Their Next Target: Apple May 1, 2009
In Hollywood, movie studios and TV networks are trying to find a mix of consumer-friendly, salable content packages and hard-nosed copy protection measures that can squeeze cash out of content libraries like Disney's (NYSE: DIS) and Time Warner's (NYSE: TWX). The Motion Picture Association of America released a study in 2005 that put major studios' yearly worldwide losses due to piracy at $6. (MSNBC -- Business)
Time Warner Announces Successful Completion of Bondholder Consent Solicitation Apr 17, 2009
"s" : "twx","k" : "c10,l10,p20,t10","o" : "","j" : "". Time Warner solicited consents from security holders of record as of April 2, 2009, to amend the covenant in each of the specified indentures that imposed certain restrictions on the conveyance or transfer by AOL LLC of its properties and assets. (Yahoo! Wire -- Entertainment News)
Facebook Takes a Dive: Why Social Networks Are Bad Businesses Apr 4, 2009
Financial advertisers run messages on AOL Finance (TWX) and TheStreet. com (TSCM). (Time.com)
Time Warner Inc. Announces Final Distribution Ratio for Spin-off of Time Warner Cable Inc. Mar 21, 2009
Source: Time Warner Inc.. NEW YORK--(BUSINESS WIRE)--Time Warner Inc. (NYSE: - ) today announced the final distribution ratio for its previously announced spin-off of Time Warner Cable Inc. (NYSE: - ). (Yahoo! Wire -- Entertainment News)
Time Warner Inc. to Report First-Quarter 2009 Results Mar 17, 2009
Source: Time Warner Inc.. NEW YORK--(BUSINESS WIRE)--Time Warner Inc. (NYSE: - ) will report its first-quarter 2009 results on Wednesday, April 29, 2009, before the market opens. (Yahoo! Wire -- Entertainment News)
Will Google Buy Twitter in 3 Weeks? Mar 5, 2009
You saw it happen when eBay (Nasdaq: EBAY) bought PayPal after its own payment platform failed; when Google bought YouTube after its own video service failed to catch on; and when companies such as Time Warner (NYSE: TWX) and News Corp. (NYSE: NWS) snapped up social-networking sites to attract younger audiences. You always hurt the ones you love. (MSNBC -- Business)
Time Warner Inc. Declares Spin-Off Dividend of Time Warner Cable Inc. Shares and Announces March 27 Effective Date for One-for-Three Reverse Stock Split Feb 27, 2009
Source: Time Warner Inc.. NEW YORK--(BUSINESS WIRE)--Time Warner Inc. (NYSE: - ) today announced that it will complete the legal and structural separation of Time Warner Cable Inc. (NYSE: - ) from Time Warner through a tax-free spin-off involving a dividend distribution of all of the Time Warner Cable common stock held by Time Warner to Time Warner stockholders. (Yahoo! Wire -- Entertainment News)
Liberty Interactive sees 4% revenue drop Feb 26, 2009
Liberty Capital (which includes the Atlanta Braves baseball team as well as interests in Time Warner Inc. (NYSE: TWX) and Sprint Nextel Corp. (NYSE: S) Saw 4Q revenue increase by 44 percent to $131 million, but its operating loss widen to $377 million from a loss of $354 million for 2007 s final quarter. The group had 27 percent increase in 2008 revenue to $617 million. (Denver Business Journal, CO)
The $2 Stock You Cannot Afford to Own Feb 25, 2009
The backstoryWhile reviewing Google's (Nasdaq: GOOG) latest downgrade last week, I mentioned that the reason for the downgrade -- a precipitous drop-off in the online advertising market -- boded ill for fellow media conglomerates like Time Warner (NYSE: TWX) and News Corp (Nasdaq: NWS). Well, surprise, Fools. (MSNBC -- Business)
Time Warner Inc. Chooses to Separate Time Warner Cable Inc. Through Spin-off Feb 20, 2009
Source: Time Warner Inc. and Time Warner Cable Inc.. NEW YORK--(BUSINESS WIRE)--Time Warner Inc. (NYSE: - ) and Time Warner Cable Inc. (NYSE: - ) today announced that Time Warner has elected to complete the separation of the two companies through a spin-off distribution involving a pro rata dividend of all of the Time Warner Cable common stock held by Time Warner to Time Warner stockholders. (Yahoo! Wire -- Entertainment News)
Statement from Time Warner and Time Warner Cable on Completion of Regulatory Reviews Related to Separation of Two Companies Feb 13, 2009
Source: Time Warner Inc. and Time Warner Cable Inc.. On Track to Separate by End of Current Quarter. (Yahoo! Wire -- Entertainment News)
Content, Once King, Becomes A Pauper Feb 13, 2009
They have insisted that companies from News Corporation (NWS) to (NYT) to Time Warner (TWX) to CBS (CBS) write-down tens of billions of dollars in assets. Cablevision (CVC) bought the large daily newspaper Newsday less than a year ago. (Time.com)
Turner Classic Movies to Look at LATINO IMAGES IN FILM in Latest Edition of RACE AND HOLLYWOOD in May Feb 12, 2009
Source: Turner Classic Movies. UCLA Professor Chon A. Noriega, Author of Shot in America: Television, the State, and the Rise of Chicano Cinema, to Co-Host Festival with TCM's Robert Osborne. (Yahoo! Wire -- Entertainment News)
OneSpot Inc. closes on $4.2M funding round Feb 9, 2009
He then garnered capital from veteran tech entrepreneurs such as Mike Maples, retired executive vice president of worldwide products, (Nasdaq: MSFT), Pat Horner, co-founder and retired president of Plano-based (NYSE: PER), and Ken Huntsman, co-founder of what is now AOL LLC, a division of (NYSE: TWX). Cohen himself also has a history in online media. (Austin Business Journal, TX)
Weekend Update, 1.31.09 Feb 7, 2009
Time Warner s (TWX) Time Inc., in a with its distributor, which upped its price by seven cents per magazine has announced it will take its business elsewhere as of Feb. 1. If this is a game of chicken, it s anybody s guess who ll win. (All Things D Blogs, CA)
