The Path to Zen

AOL renamed (back) to Time Warner

Effective today, the company officially starts to operate under the name Time Warner, and to be traded under symbol “TWX” - also changed from the previous “AOL”.

A lot of people won’t feel good today, but I think I can name one who would feel particularly bad - Steve Case. Well, although I never liked AOL (remember all the busy signals?), he sure has my sympathy. At a different level, I don’t feel good either, as this was supposed to be an ideal marriage between the classic media and the new Internet power. Moreover, This ending is probably the worst one that could have happened. Even a spinoff of AOL that effectively cancels the merger would have been better - at least that would imply an AOL that could live on it own value, however much that would be.