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Life for AOL after the worst deal in history
Thursday 29 April 2010
After a painful demerger from Time Warner, profit warnings and asset sales, Stephen Foley asks if AOL has a future
The last picture show? Debts cast shadow over MGM
Wednesday 21 April 2010
The studio responsible for 'Gone with the Wind' among other classics has been forced to shelve the latest Bond film. So can the lion ever recover its roar?
Bebo to be sold or shut down in 2011
Wednesday 07 April 2010
AOL plans to find a buyer for its social networking site Bebo, for which it paid $850 million (£558 million) in 2008, or shut it down.
Can the West breach China's great walls?
Sunday 28 March 2010
It's all too easy to come a cropper in a culture that operates by very different rules. Mark Leftly reports
MGM studios on verge of bankruptcy
Sunday 28 March 2010
Hollywood film-maker faces 'brinkmanship' talks with potential buyers as it sinks under $3.7bn debt
Hit turns to miss as Hands sues Citigroup over EMI deal
Sunday 07 February 2010
Terra Firma's boss says he bought the now struggling music company for a 'fraudulently inflated' £4.2bn.
Time seeks closure on the worst deal in history
Thursday 04 February 2010
The media group is desperate to consign its disastrous merger with AOL to history – a boost in profits in its first results since the split suggests it has
AOL's UK boss stands down as thousands of jobs are lost
Wednesday 13 January 2010
The head of the internet giant AOL UK is leaving the company at the end of the month as it prepares to "significantly" reduce its British workforce and close offices throughout Europe.
Ex-Time Warner boss apologises for 'worst deal of the century'
Wednesday 06 January 2010
Jerry Levin encourages banking chiefs to follow his lead after admitting AOL blunder
Cable wars heat up as Fox and Time Warner fight over fees
Wednesday 30 December 2009
Viewers are set to be the end-payers in Rupert Murdoch's latest drive to ensure media content brings in revenue, reports Stephen Foley
AOL unveils rebranding drive
Tuesday 24 November 2009
What do goldfish, four abstract scrawls and an obscene hand gesture have in common? They are all variations of the internet company AOL's new corporate logo as it prepares to split from Time Warner.
Time Warner set to spin off AOL
Tuesday 17 November 2009
Time Warner said that it will spin off its internet business, AOL, as a separate company on 9 December.
Hollywood's most glamorous studio prepares to sell up
Sunday 15 November 2009
The home of Tom and Jerry, James Bond and classic musicals is laden with nearly $4bn debt
YouTube in movie rental negotiations
Thursday 03 September 2009
YouTube, Google's online video streaming service, is in talks with Hollywood studios to rent new release movies online, according to people familiar with the talks.
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Man and woman arrested on suspicion of conspiracy to murder victim of Woolwich machete attack, named as Drummer Lee Rigby
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'Sickening, deluded and unforgivable': Horrific attack brings terror to London’s streets
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Grace Dent: I’m not sure how these people can avoid being called ‘bigots’. And the more ‘civilised’, the worse they are
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Woolwich murder: They killed, then they performed - these men should be starved of our attention
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Woolwich attack: The EDL will seek to exploit this evil crime for their own evil ends
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