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Time Warner's AOL going solo, it's official (from Corporate Dealmaker)

Time Warner Inc. (NYSE:TWX) offered up details Thursday on its planned spin off of AOL LLC. As we noted on Wednesday, Time Warner chief executive Jeff Bewkes has made no secret that he favored a legal separation as the best way to boost Time Warner and revive a struggling AOL. (This...

Posted on May 28, 2009 8:51 AM

AOL hires Google's Armstrong as CEO (from Corporate Dealmaker)

Time Warner Inc. (NYSE:TWX) shook the head of its AOL LLC unit, replacing chairman and CEO Randy Falco and president and COO Ron Grant with nine-year Google Inc. (NASDAQ:GOOG) vet Tim Armstrong. In a statement, Web advertising expert Armstrong said, "AOL and Google have been partners for years and...

Posted on March 13, 2009 9:47 AM

Liberty Entertainment: Why track when you can spin? (from Corporate Dealmaker)

Think three tracking stocks are a little much for a single parent company? Then you and John Malone (pictured) have something in common. Liberty Media Corp. said Wednesday that it will split off Liberty Entertainment Group, one of its three trackers, to increase the company's maneuverability and strengthen its stock...

Posted on September 4, 2008 8:34 AM

Time Warner announces plan to exit cable (from Corporate Dealmaker)

Time Warner Inc. announced details on Wednesday of its plan to spin off Time Warner Cable to investors. Because of its complex ownership structure, the separation will take place in several steps, beginning with Time Warner lifting its stake to 85.2% from 84% and ending with the company receiving a...

Posted on May 21, 2008 8:40 AM

Bewkes weighs AOL combo and Time Warner Cable spinoff (from Corporate Dealmaker)

Wednesday's Roll Call alerted CD to some goings on at AOL LLC. As Google Inc., Yahoo! Inc. and Microsoft Corp. have been sucking up advertising dollars, AOL has been buying companies trying to join the party. Most recently, they acquired Goowy Media Inc., a widget development and analytics tools company;...

Posted on March 12, 2008 2:24 PM