Episode 44: AOL - Time Warner (with the Internet History Podcast)
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The AOL Deal With Time Warner
The week before, it might even be the day before, they actually announced the merger, the deal with Time Warner. Meg Whitman and their Goldman Sachs people are at AOL headquarters trying to work out a deal so that AOL is going to buy eBay in what's called the Malibu room on the opposite end of the floor. So it's a comical scene. Executives are shuffling in and out, alternatively apologizing to and ignoring Whitman and her team who are sitting there cooling their heels.
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