Gerald M. Levin, the former Time Warner CEO who helped orchestrate the 2000 merger with AOL, died March 13 in Long Beach, CA. He was 84.
Gerald Levin, the visionary executive in the early days of HBO whose career will be forever marred after he orchestrated the merger of Time Warner and AOL, has died.
America Online chair Steve Case, left, Gerald Levin in New York in 2000 © AP Long before he became known as the architect of the AOL-Time Warner merger in January 2000 — generally...
On January 10, 2000, in one of the biggest media mergers in history, America Online Inc. announces plans to acquire Time Warner Inc. for some $182 billion in stock and debt. The result was a $350 b...
the merger. And here, in one fell swoop, was a solution. The strategy sounded compelling. Time Warner (TWC), via AOL, would now have a footprint of tens of millions of new subscribers. AOL...
The deal would be the biggest corporate merger of all time as well as an aggressive bet that... Case will be chairman of the new company, which will be called AOL Time Warner Inc. and...
Shortly after receiving the green light, AOL Time Warner issued a statement saying that merger of the companies had been completed. Indeed, the Web address www.timewarner.com had already...
A decade ago, America Online merged with Time Warner in a deal valued at a stunning $350 billion. It was then, and is now, the largest merger in American business history. The Internet, it...
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Instant communication between anyone in the world and the idea of digital distribution was irresistible, and AOL seemed on top of the world. What better way for Time Warner to get in on the...