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How Did AT&T’s $100 Billion Time Warner Deal Go So Wrong?

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How Did AT&T’s $100 Billion Time Warner Deal Go So Wrong?

At Time Warner, executives saw AT&T as just a “big phone company from Texas.” At AT&T, they thought Hollywood would play by their rules. That combination led to strategic miscalculation unrivaled in recent corporate history.

By James B. Stewart

Is Time Running Out for the Leap Second?

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Is Time Running Out for the Leap Second?

To the world’s timekeepers, the leap second is a kludge, a bane, a pain in the little hand. Now they’re proposing to ditch it. Will our days ever be the same?

By Alanna Mitchell