Jan 10 AOL, Time Warner to Merge Top Internet services provider America Online Inc. will buy Time Warner Inc., the world's largest media and entertainment company, for about $166 billion in stock, the companies said, in what ranks as the largest corporate merger deal ever. Continue reading
Apr 03 Microsoft Verdict: Microsoft Broke Rules By PBS News Hour Judge Thomas Penfield Jackson ruled that Microsoft violated federal antitrust laws by using its power to stifle competition and hurt consumers. Continue reading
Apr 01 Microsoft Talks Break Down By Admin, PBS News Hour Talks between the Department of Justice and Microsoft broke down over the weekend. The following is a statement released April 1 by U.S. Court of Appeals Chief Judge Richard Posner in Chicago, the talks' mediator. Continue reading
Nov 02 Hi-Tech Healing By PBS News Hour The Internet has been much maligned as a purveyor of pornography and much hyped as the future of business, work, travel and leisure, but one organization is on the ground trying to use new technologies for something concrete: a healing… Continue reading
Apr 19 Profile: Ken Auletta Ken Auletta has written the "Annals of Communications" column for The New Yorker since October, 1992. Continue reading
Apr 19 Forum: Ken Auletta on the Effect of New Telecommunications Act on the Internet The new Telecommunications Bill passed by Congress will have a sweeping effect on the way telephone and cable companies can do business. Continue reading