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The problems with AT T's bid for Time Warner

  • Written by Mark Humphery-Jenner, Associate Professor of Finance, UNSW Australia

Those who don’t learn from history are doomed to repeat it. So it is with a sense of familiarity that we greet AT&T’s proposed acquisition of Time Warner.

In early 2000, AOL acquired Time Warner for US$164 billion. Broadly, like AT&T’s acquisition, AOL’s involved a sausage maker acquiring something to put in those...

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