Seventeen very rich families added their names to the list of tycoons who’re the majority of their fortunes to charity via Warren Buffett and Bill and Melinda Gates’ Giving Pledge. Good for them! Whatever they did to amass all that money, all is forgiven.
Ten years ago, Jerry Levin was something of a slick New York shark–”a suit and tie man if ever there was one“–brash enough to merge his behemoth Time Warner with the internet giant AOL.
Now that the deal is considered one of worst mergers in history, and following the murder of his son, Mr. Read More
There Must Be a Pony in Here Somewhere: The AOL Time Warner Debacle and the Quest for the Digital Future, by Kara Swisher with Lisa Dickey. Crown Business, 306 pages, $24.95
Fools Rush In: Steve Case, Jerry Levin, and the Unmaking of AOL Time Warner, by Nina Munk. HarperBusiness, 352 pages, $26.95.
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This all-new “Mr. Good Guy” shtick is proving tougher than expected. Tougher to put across; tougher to live up to. It just killed me to have to pass up eviscerating the absolute load of tosh that Roger Rosenblatt dumped on the heads of Time readers apropos of Einstein and relativity, although fortunately James Bowman, five Read More
