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The European Commission said Wednesday it has given its conditional approval to the merger of America Online with Time Warner, after a four month in-depth probe into the deal.

In the latest in a series of letters defending their merger before the U.S.Federal Communications Commission, America Online Inc. - Time Warner Inc. executives argued that Time Warner's "interrelationship" with AT&T Corp. is no deal stopper.

LONDON (09/21/2000) - Antitrust enforcers at the U.S. Federal Communications Commission (FCC) are ready to give a conditional green light to the merger between America Online Inc. and Time Warner Inc., according to a report published Thursday in the Washington Post newspaper.

Winemaking is not your ordinary manufacturing industry. After all, wine has been gladdening the hearts of men (and women) since at least Biblical times. But winemaking does not lend itself to a formula that can be repeated with a consistent outcome. Winemakers must respect the ever-changing conditions of the terroir, or terrain--the grapes, the soil and the sun, which combine with the simple passage of time to create the precious nectar.

Unless you've been sleeping as soundly as a princess for the past six months, it'd be impossible not to notice that summer 2000 was the season the electronic book finally barged into public consciousness like a battering ram. Publishing's dream boy Stephen King, himself newly packaged following a near-fatal car accident that shattered his right leg, started the assault this spring. Simon & Schuster Inc. released King's Riding the Bullet as an e-book, making it available in a digital form online (an e-book is the encrypted, digitized contents of a book, from jacket image to index). More than 500,000 copies of the novella were snapped up in a day by the author's notoriously rabid fans, e-book enthusiasts and just plain bargain hunters (reportedly, as many as 300,000 free copies were distributed). Simon & Schuster, apparently pleased enough with those numbers, announced it would make all of suspense novelist Mary Higgins Clark's 22 mysteries available electronically just a week after striking a US$64 million deal to publish four of her new works. Then in July King upped the ante, self-publishing on his website Chapter 1 of a new novel, The Plant, saying future chapters would be available if readers paid $1 per installment.

Piyush Gupta used to say he'd never send an it project out of house again, never mind to a different company on a different continent. A veteran IBM Corp. project manager, Gupta first struggled with distributed projects back in the late 1980s, when working on that company's ill-fated OfficeVision development, which was spread across two continents. Later at Informix in Menlo Park, Calif., where he was a vice president of engineering, Gupta wrestled with

He's the unconventional Independent governor who confounded the pundits by emerging victorious in his first bid for public office. Whizzing around the state capital on his motorcycle, he presents an incongruous, and surprisingly approachable, image for a politician. In fact, folks around the state just refer to him by his first name. Although this description also fits a particularly illustrious veteran of the WWF, we're not talking Jesse here. We mean Angus King--the full-follicled, 71st governor of Maine--and the lesser known of the nation's two Independent governors.

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The perpetual enemy of the electronic world -- time -- killed the merger between Sprint Corp. and WorldCom Inc. The companies looked at the delay the U.S. Department of Justice (DOJ) antitrust lawsuit would cause and balked, officially calling off the deal last week

Under pressure from the European Commission in Brussels, Microsoft Corp. has agreed to limit itself to a minority interest in British broadband cable company Telewest PLC.

BOSTON (07/10/2000) - AT&T Corp. will enter the content delivery and streaming media market, unveiling a plan Monday to provide services for companies to create, manage and distribute audio and video over the Internet.