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SEC Taps Wall Street Lawyer to Police Wall Street

Project On Government Oversight | Posted 04.24.2013 | Politics
Read More: JP Morgan Chase, Law, Lawyers, Financial Reform, Revolving Door, Regulation, Government, Mary Jo White, Politics, JP Morgan, Wall Street, Finance, SEC Revolving Door, Aol Time Warner, Sec, Department of Justice, Securities and Exchange Commission, News, Andrew Ceresney, Financial Regulation, Politics News
Project On Government Oversight

The appointment comes as no surprise because the agency typically draws regulators from the ranks of the regulated. But it does illustrate a significant problem: by relying so heavily on people with industry connections, the SEC can tangle itself in conflicts of interest.

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9 Mergers That Epically Failed

The Huffington Post | Posted 02.23.2013 | Business
Read More: Ebay, Worst Mergers, Sears, Kmart, Sprint Nextel, Aol Time Warner, Skype, Snapple and Quakers, Worst Mergers of All Time, Business News

If failed corporate mergers teach us anything about business, it's that bigger is not always better. Yep, with a 70 to 90 percent chance of dying, ...

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AOL Officially Separates From Time Warner

Wall Street Journal | Posted 05.25.2011 | Business
Read More: Tim Armstrong, Aol Time Warner, Time Warner, Aol, New York Stock Exchange, Business News

After seven months of preparation, AOL is set to be officially independent of media giant Time Warner Inc., closing the book on their disastrous 2001 ...

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Jason Linkins

Was AOL Reporter Tommy Christopher Sacked For Criticizing Misogynist Playboy Piece?

HuffingtonPost.com | Jason Linkins | Posted 05.25.2011 | Media
Read More: Tommy Christopher Fired, Sexism, Aol, Aol Time Warner, Misogyny, Tommy Christopher, Video, Jezebel, Megan Carpentier, Playboy Magazine, Media Criticism, Conservative Pundits, Eat the Press, Media News

Earlier this week, we mentioned how Playboy had published a sociopathic, hateful, and unfunny listicle by Guy Cimbalo, listing the ten conservative wo...

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Time Warner Gets Well-Timed Tax Break In AOL Spinoff

Fortune | Allan Sloan Senior Editor at Large | Posted 05.25.2011 | Business
Read More: Taxes, Time Warner Tax Break, Aol Time Warner, AOL Spin Off, Time Warner, Aol, Time Warner AOL, Aol Stock, Business News

Time Warner's plan to distribute AOL stock to its shareholders in a tax-free transaction is benefiting from a little-noticed change last year in the r...

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AOL's History In Photos

Huffington Post | Posted 05.25.2011 | Business
Read More: America Online, Aol, Aol History, Slidehuge, Aol Time Warner, Aol Separation, Aol Stock, Aol Time Warner Merger, Business News

It has been more than a decade since America Online dominated headlines as the future of media. Oh how times have changed! AOL rose from a company tha...

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Spelling Ted Without Ed

Kevin Morris and Glenn Altschuler | Posted 05.25.2011 | Media
Read More: Jane Fonda, Aol Time Warner, Time Warner, Martin Scorsese, Cnn, Woody Allen, Ted Turner, The Goodwill Games, Tnt, Willaim Faulkner, Arthur Miller, Media News
Kevin Morris and Glenn Altschuler

For such a surprising life, Ted's memoir is exceptionally unsurprising. In Call Me Ted, he is serially and simultaneously a rebel and an establishment figure.

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Ex-AOL Time Warner Executives Charged With Fraud

AP | MARCY GORDON | Posted 05.25.2011 | Business
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WASHINGTON — Federal regulators on Monday said eight former Time Warner Inc. executives fraudulently inflated the company's online advertising r...

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