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Icahn wants sufficient control to achieve his strategy of breaking up Time Warner.

The Icahn Group believes that these actions would immediately narrow the gap between the current share price of Time Warner and the true value of Time Warner?s assets, which the Icahn Group believes is significantly higher,

[Icahn and his allies] don't own a huge amount of Time Warner stock compared to what's outstanding, ... And this isn't a classic Carl Icahn story, where you're dealing with sluggish management, an unknown stock and a situation where asset sales won't result in tax problems. Parsons has gone in the right direction.

This is a terrific transaction that is the right thing to do for both the Time Warner Book Group and our shareholders. With its record-breaking performance in 2005, the Book Group is at the top of its game. To build on this success, however, it needs the scale and other advantages that come from being part of a larger, more global book publisher. This transaction also underscores our commitment to a strategy of managing closely related, industry-leading businesses to maximize shareholder returns. We wish our Time Warner Book Group colleagues continued success and the best of luck at their new home.

Prior Time Warner directors are going to be looking askance at recommendations coming from these five because they come in with the Icahn agenda. Their interest is in short-term price performance.

AOL's best place is still inside of Time Warner. If Time Warner can make AOL work and keep it profitable, they've got a platform that can be powerful for promoting all their other media properties. I think Time Warner would rather not turn over full ownership of AOL. They're just looking for other opportunities.

I don't know what Icahn thinks he's doing. Icahn has gone out on a limb. Even if he succeeds in getting it broken up - and that would be very sad - I don't think he'd make money out of it.

Rupert Murdoch (1931-)

Rupert Murdoch

Windows XP is designed to bring more choice and options to consumers, not fewer, in stark contrast to AOL Time Warner's closed, proprietary strategy.

It's interesting this announcement comes so soon on the heels of the Time Warner deal. One of the synergies we see between AOL and Time Warner is TW giving AOL access to their cable.

We're shocked and dismayed that Time Warner would do this to their own customers. We gave Time Warner our consent to carry our programming through May 24, so there was no reason for it. They unilaterally pulled us off their systems.

$750 million is a decent chunk of change, and AOL Time Warner is trying to pay down debt, so this would help a little bit from that perspective, ... But with all of AOL Time Warner's issues, the antitrust case was not front and center.

I believe there is great value for Time Warner if it were broken into parts, ... get away from the huge cost structure and excessive layers of management at the top, both literally at the Time Warner Center, and figuratively.

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Martin Abramowitz

I don't know what Icahn thinks he's doing. Icahn has gone out on a limb.

Rupert Murdoch (1931-)

Rupert Murdoch

Murdoch thought he had a deal with Time Warner, then, at the very last minute Time Warner went the other way, over to MSNBC.

Time Warner is pulling out the heavy guns, there's no doubt they are taking this seriously. This counter-point situation is quite similar to a political campaign, where both sides have a war room. One side is lining out a strategy and the other is responding.

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