Time Warner and America Online, which yesterday announced the world's biggest merger, are already the biggest media and Internet groups in the world
Time Warner
Headquarters: New York city
Chairman and chief executive: Gerald Levin.
Employees: 68,799.
Revenue: $26.8 billion in 1998.
Net income: $168 million in 1998.
Cable TV brands: HBO, CNN, TNT, Cartoon Network.
Magazines: Time, People, Sports Illustrated, Fortune.
Entertainment brands: Warner Bros, Warner Music, the WB network, Looney Tunes, Entertainment Weekly.
America Online
Headquarters: Dulles, Virginia.
Chairman and chief executive: Steve Case.
Employees: 12,100.
Revenue: $4.8 billion in the year to June 30, 1999.
Net income: $762 million in the year to June 30, 1999.
Online and software brands: America Online, CompuServe, Netscape, ICQ, AOL Instant Messenger and Digital City, AOL MovieFone, Spinner Networks and Null Soft.
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