Nickname: LovingTWX

Review: Icahn needs to get the heck out. He needs to leave and just leave Time Warner alone. People don't realize what he did to Texaco and to TWA. So, he needs to get his nose out of this and leave Time Warner alone. Go Parsons!

Date reviewed: Dec 20, 2005 4:20 AM

Nickname: damian

Review: The big Five: AOL, eBay, Yahoo!, MSN, and Google should get more involved with each other. It is a great move that Google bought 5% of AOL and Yahoo, MSN, and eBay should do the same. Google probably has the best information on how to reach the right customers with AdSense, but eBay should look more into what they can offer in the search ads area - or better yet in the buy ads era, and how they can target the ultimate customers.

Date reviewed: Dec 19, 2005 4:43 PM

Nickname: Volgo

Review: A similar article has mentioned IBM selling each part of its business -- printer, memory, PC -- and usually the buyers gained advantage from the deal while IBM sinks further into irrelevance. Time Warner is doing exactly that: death by pieces. Ultimately it's the creative minority displaced by the uncreative majority, as the historian Arnold Toynbee first pointed out, and management tinkering has no effect whatsoever.

Date reviewed: Dec 19, 2005 3:12 PM

Nickname: Scott at ExclusiveConcepts

Review: We should be questioning what kind of treatment AOL and their properties will be getting in the Google- sponsored ads. If they are given preferential treatment, that would be counter to the whole market-driven philosophy that guides pay per click advertising. It would set terrible precedent, and in my opinion, could cause uproar... I would liken it to insider trading where a few smaller players, like AOL have competitive advantages that the rest of the market does not have. Would this really be the first time that Google gives preferential treatment to advertisers, or do other large advertisers have preferential treatment in the Google-sponsored ads already? I'd like to see some discussion of this on the Google blog. After all, that's one benefit of blogs -- stopping PR nightmares.

Date reviewed: Dec 19, 2005 3:10 PM

Nickname: googler

Review: The best thing AOL has done is to make a deal with Google. If they had partnered with Microsoft I would have cancelled my subscription and I have been a member since they first started.

Date reviewed: Dec 19, 2005 12:55 AM