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America Online-Time Warner merger represents both triumph of Internet as irresistible business force and of AOL head Stephen M Case's vision of Web as mass-marketed, middle-of-the-road medium for Main Street America; is victory for Case and validation of AOL marketing strategy, long derided by techies (M)
AOL Deal for Time Warner Spurs Stocks to Big Gains Stock prices posted sharp gains, spurred in part by America Online's $165 billion takeover of Time Warner. The deal touched off demand for entertainment and Internet shares as investors piled into companies that might be merger candidates. The Nasdaq composite index recorded its biggest one-day point gain, rising 167.05 points, or 4.3 percent, to 4,049.67. Led by Hewlett-Packard, I.B.M. and Intel, the Dow rose 49.64 points, to 11,572.20. The Standard & Poor's 500-stock index rose 16.13 points, or 1.12 percent, to 1,457.60. [Page C17.]
Profile of America Online chairman and chief executive, Stephen M Case, who will head new AOL Time Warner; he has survived Internet's accelerated evolution with series of transformations; Time Warner head Gerald M Levin comments on Case's approach (M)
Internet company America Online to buy Time Warner, largest traditional media company, for $165 billion in merger that would be biggest ever and proof that old and new media are converging; deal is acknowledgement by Time Warner that Internet is central to its media businesses and that its own efforts to create online operations have been lackluster; would enable AOL to offer customers speedier Internet access and interactive television services on Time Warner's cable television systems and give it use of Time Warner's entertainment and information empire; deal is likely to spur other mergers that could speed development of high-capacity data and entertainment networks; surprise deal, negotiated in secret, also brings new realization that huge stock-market values recently obtained by Internet companies allow them to do buying in media deals; AOL chairman and chief executive, Stephen M Case, will be chairman of new company, AOL Time Warner; Time Warner chairman, Gerald M Levin, will be chief executive; photos; graphs of companies' market shares; graphs and tables of Time Warner assets (M)
Profile of Karl Rove, longtime political operative in Texas, who is chief strategist of Gov George W Bush's presidential campaign; Bush credits Rove with being architect of campaign's shape, pacing and densely staffed organizations in states with early primaries, interview; hails Rove's concern about him as person; Rove, campaign manager Joe Allbaugh and communications director Karen P Hughes are known in Texas for their proximity to and protectiveness of Bush; table of key aides; photo (M)
Music on My Birthday
The Top 50 albums for the chart week of January 5, 2000, covering January 11, 2000.
DMX
Celine Dion
Backstreet Boys
Santana
Christina Aguilera
2000Chaeyeon, South Korean singer-songwriter[†]
Lee Chae-yeon is a South Korean singer, dancer, rapper, and actress. She is a former member of the South Korean-Japanese girl group Iz*One. On October 12, 2022, she made her solo debut with the release of her first EP Hush Rush.
2000Ivan Combe, American businessman, invented Clearasil (born 1911)[†]
Ivan DeBlois Combe was the American inventor of personal-care products, most notably Clearasil and Odor Eaters. In 1949 he established his eponymous company Combe Incorporated in White Plains, New York.
2000Bob Lemon, American baseball player and manager (born 1920)[†]
Robert Granville Lemon was an American right-handed pitcher and manager in Major League Baseball (MLB). Lemon was elected to the National Baseball Hall of Fame in 1976.
2000Betty Archdale, English-Australian cricketer and educator (born 1907)[†]
Helen Elizabeth Archdale was an English-Australian sportswoman and educator. She was the inaugural Test captain of the England women's cricket team in 1934. A qualified barrister and Women's Royal Naval Service veteran, she moved to Australia in 1946 to become principal of The Women's College at the University of Sydney. She later served as headmistress of Abbotsleigh, a private girls' school in Sydney, and was an inaugural member of the Australian Council for the Arts.
In 2000, the world population was approximately 6,171,702,993 people[†]