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AOL-Time Warner $164 Billion Merger Creates Largest Media Conglomerate in History

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America Online (AOL), the nation’s dominant Internet service provider, announces its intention to purchase Time Warner for $164 billion in the largest media merger in history. The combined entity would control magazines, video and high-speed Internet cable, cable TV channels (including CNN, …

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