Megamedia shakeout : the inside story of the leaders and the losers in the exploding communications industry, Kevin Maney

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Megamedia shakeout : the inside story of the leaders and the losers in the exploding communications industry, Kevin Maney

Link

• https://openlibrary.org/books/OL1117172M
• https://archive.org/details/megamediashakeou00kevi

Title remainder

the inside story of the leaders and the losers in the exploding communications industry

Statement of responsibility

Kevin Maney

Instantiates

• Megamedia shakeout : the inside story of the leaders and the losers in the exploding communications industry

Publication

• New York, J. Wiley, c1995

Contents

• The TV -- The personal computer -- The telephone -- Leaders to watch: Ray Smith and Bell Atlantic -- US West: cowboy culture goes big-time -- Pacific Telesis: fortress California -- Ameritech: most likely to neither succeed nor fail -- NYNEX: a ticking time bomb -- BellSouth: a huge, rich, well-run question mark -- SBC Communications: could be great ... but running out of steam -- GTE and Rochester Telephone: two players to watch -- Leaders to watch: John Malone and Tele-Communications Inc. -- Time Warner: shooting for the moon -- Comcast: father, son, and company -- Cox: a family dynasty jumps into megamedia -- Le Groupe Vidéotron Ltée: c'est interactive -- Cablevision and Jones: two possible survivors in a consolidating industry -- Leaders to watch: Frank Biondi, Sumner Redstone, and Viacom -- Capital Cities/ABC: evolution of a dinosaur -- The Walt Disney Company: the power house -- Knight-Ridder: dark horse of the superhighway -- Rupert Murdoch's News Corp.: worshipping the sun god -- Barry Diller
• and Ted Turner -- Leaders to watch: Robert Allen and AT&T -- MCI: a company of bungee jumpers -- Sprint: gone with the wind? -- British Telecom et al.: the global factor -- Leaders to watch: Bill Gates, Nathan Myhrvold, and Microsoft -- Silicon Graphics: you have to see it to believe it -- Oracle: smart, lucky, or both? -- General Magic: on a clear day you can see the future -- Et Cetera -- Leaders to watch: Lew Platt and Hewlett-Packard -- Intel: competitively paranoid -- Compaq: workaholic, inc. -- IBM: can Big Blue pull another IBM? -- Apple, DEC, and the Japanese: trying to survive in an insane industry -- Nextel: definitely not faint-of-heart -- Motorola: doubling revenue every five years-for eternity -- DirecTv: in a make-or-break situation -- AirTouch: strange journey -- Teledesic: where does the line form? -- America Online: "I want my AOL" -- General Instrument: survival of the fittest? -- Discovery Communications: a refuge from cacophony -- Sony: too far from its core -- Sega: this ain't no game
• -- Mike Milken's EEN Communications: a million miles from Wall Street -- Winners -- Losers -- Five companies to work for in megamedia -- To be continued: predictions and trends to watch

Extent

1 online resource (ix, 358 pages

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online

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illustrations)

Record ID

megamediashakeou00kevi

Specific material designation

remote

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(OCoLC)1036697584

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Mode of access: Internet