• In Brief

    Just make up your mind

    2007Picture 306"Some within Time Warner wonder whether the company wouldn't be better off if it were to get out of cable and double down on the Web — where it already owns AOL — by buying another major Internet company, just as News Corp. acquired MySpace and Google Inc. bought YouTube. [Wall Street Journal, April 2007] And what were execs at the media giant saying just two years ago? Picture 304Picture 305-1"Time Warner Inc. may consider spinning off its America Online division in the future to help finance acquisitions, chief executive Richard D. Parsons said." [Washington Post, May 2005]

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