Time Warner To Be Split Into Four Parts?

Shakrai writes "CNN Money is running a story titled Icahn eyes Time Warner break-up. Carl Icahn is a fairly well known investor who is pushing to break the Time Warner empire into at least four different business units. While his motivation seems to stem from business interests -- he thinks it will work out better for Time Warner in the long run -- I thought it raised an interesting point of discussion. Will the vertically integrated media empires that control content creation, content distribution, internet access and the news media become the Ma Bells of the 21st century? What can be done to protect consumers without stifling the technological innovation that we all know is so important?"

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Fairly well-known

[OriginalArlen]

Yeah, Carl Icahn's fairly well known. In other news, the faeces of the species Ursus Ursus is often discovered in arboreal settings, and it is believed that a German chap in a house in Rome is titular head of the organisation known as the "Holy Catholic and Apostolic Church".

Microsoft

[hachete]

I've always thought that MS was way too diffuse. Just what is it's business? Just what does it want to do? "A PC on Every Desk Top". Is that still its statement? If so, it's looking more out of date by the second.