Time Warner, the global media leader, on Wednesday will take the wraps off plans for ailing internet unit AOL, which may include shedding subscriber-access fees seen as blocking advertising revenue. Since 2005 Time Warner has openly pursued a strategy of developing free-access programs on AOL — such as TV series, news and music — to compete with Yahoo! and Google.
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/ 9 November 2005
Google’s plans for a virtual library of millions of digital books has sparked competing efforts by Microsoft, Yahoo! and Amazon, whose less ambitious plans could avoid infuriating copyright holders who have attacked Google. <i>Google Print</i>, which scans books and makes their texts available online for keyword searches, was launched this month with what the California company called only "a small fraction" of the 15-million titles it eventually hopes to digitally copy.
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/ 25 December 2003
United States fast-food giants will have to act quickly to head off public fears over mad cow disease and convince consumers to keep eating hamburgers. World fast-food leader McDonald’s and its rivals such as Wendy’s and Burger King risk being among the main losers.