From WSJopinion: Calls to break up today’s leading tech companies may one day seem as quaint as the alarm over AOL’s acquisition of Time Warner, writes Thomas W. Hazlett
It was the biggest corporate merger in history, and it stunned the markets. On Jan.
10, 2000, America Online, the world’s largest internet service provider, bid $183 billion for Time Warner, the world’s largest content provider. Steve Case, AOL’s CEO, talked of “the global company for the internet age.” Investor Roger McNamee called the event “transformational.” It was widely anticipated to be the start of something significant.To Read the Full Story
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