There are two good ways to buy your new car or truck at a reasonable low price and avoid all of the negotiating games and hassles:
It was Jeff Bewkes who famously spoke up in an internal management meeting in 2002 and burst the bubble on AOL's friendly 2001 takeover of Time Warner, which was supposed to create a digital media juggernaut. "This is bull----", said Bewkes, who ran the conglomerate's HBO division, interrupting Steve Case, the Internet entrepreneur who had become chairman of what was then called AOL Time Warner. "The only problem in this construct is AOL."
Car expert Tom Torbjornsen answers a letter from a auto owner:
Regardless of whether you're talking politics or automotive technologies, the voting and driving public often gravitates to what's new and fresh.
Car expert Tom Torbjornsen answers a letter from a auto owner:
I'm sure you've probably heard this before. "Your shocks and (or) struts are blown and need replacing." You are quoted some astronomical price and you immediately ask yourself, "How important are these things ... do I really need to replace them?" These are good questions that deserve our attention.
Which star do you most associate with car-chase movies: Steve McQueen or Michael Caine? Gene Hackman or Burt Reynolds?
A small bodywork scratch: $1,500. An exhaust valve replacement: $3,500. A new trunk-release switch cover: $150.
Basketball phenom LeBron James has one. As does actor Matt Dillon. So, famously, does politician Al Gore's son.
Car leasing is a lot like renting an apartment; you pay a monthly fee to use it but don't own it -- and aren't making payments toward ownership. The leased vehicle remains the property of the lessor -- the company that issued the lease.
There are two good ways to buy your new car or truck at a reasonable low price and avoid all of the negotiating games and hassles:
It was Jeff Bewkes who famously spoke up in an internal management meeting in 2002 and burst the bubble on AOL's friendly 2001 takeover of Time Warner, which was supposed to create a digital media juggernaut. "This is bull----", said Bewkes, who ran the conglomerate's HBO division, interrupting Steve Case, the Internet entrepreneur who had become chairman of what was then called AOL Time Warner. "The only problem in this construct is AOL."
Car expert Tom Torbjornsen answers a letter from a auto owner:
Regardless of whether you're talking politics or automotive technologies, the voting and driving public often gravitates to what's new and fresh.
Car expert Tom Torbjornsen answers a letter from a auto owner:
I'm sure you've probably heard this before. "Your shocks and (or) struts are blown and need replacing." You are quoted some astronomical price and you immediately ask yourself, "How important are these things ... do I really need to replace them?" These are good questions that deserve our attention.
Which star do you most associate with car-chase movies: Steve McQueen or Michael Caine? Gene Hackman or Burt Reynolds?
A small bodywork scratch: $1,500. An exhaust valve replacement: $3,500. A new trunk-release switch cover: $150.
Basketball phenom LeBron James has one. As does actor Matt Dillon. So, famously, does politician Al Gore's son.
Car leasing is a lot like renting an apartment; you pay a monthly fee to use it but don't own it -- and aren't making payments toward ownership. The leased vehicle remains the property of the lessor -- the company that issued the lease.
Congratulations. You've successfully negotiated the purchase price of your new or used car or truck. You've made a great deal.
Recently, Consumer Reports magazine issued its list of best and worst used cars, and divvied them up by price range.
When the economy goes into a downward spiral like it currently is, people scramble to find ways to save money, but it seems there's always a catch.
If your steak is undercooked (or just plain mangy) you can always send it back -- or at least get a refund.
It's been quite a year as far as fuel prices are concerned. From a high north of $4 a gallon all the way down to a sub-$2 a gallon, motorists can be forgiven for wondering what the heck is going on in one of the least avoidable places to do business -- the gas station.
"Isn't it covered under my warranty?" This question is asked thousands of times a day in dealership service departments around the country.
Ever wonder what goes into the making of that round, black, rubber thing that holds air, we refer to as a tire? To the casual observer all tires look the same, but there's a lot more to it than meets the eye ...
With the explosive growth of the light truck segment as well as the impending onslaught of winter, I thought it would be fitting to write about four-wheel drive systems. There are a few different types available; and there are special maintenance practices that might cause some confusion. So let's get enlightened!
Collecting cars is an expensive hobby. Here's a twist: Buy a new car today that will be worth a fortune as a collectible years from now.
The headline of this article illustrates the feeling people get when they encounter small, annoying maladies in their vehicles.
For those of you who are schoolteachers, you will understand what I am about to relate.
Most passenger vehicles are coming out with ABS, otherwise known as Antilock brakes. Let's take a look at their design and function.
Beyond acquiring basic car control skills -- and exercising good judgment behind the wheel -- there are a few basic rules for safe driving that everyone should know -- and follow:
A little yellow warning light appeared on the dash of my minitruck restoration project over the summer.
An internal combustion engine relies on regular maintenance of various systems to continue running trouble free.
Whether you are a newly licensed driver, a veteran behind the wheel or a lucky person who's avoided tickets all your years, the fear that you will be pulled over for a first-time infraction probably haunts you.
Law enforcement officials in six states can now give you a ticket for talking on your cell phone while driving, so that hands-free device you should be using for your cell phone is going to become your best friend.
Small cars continue to be hot sellers among buyers looking for fuel economy, style and all-around fun. See which cars are the winners in this list of best-selling small cars.
Taking care of your car's appearance doesn't qualify as vanity, it's smart vehicle ownership. You can hire a professional auto detailer to care for your car for $100 to $500 -- or you can swipe their secrets, do it yourself and save some dough.
Someone got cut off. They bleeped their horn. You bleeped back. They gesticulated, you gesticulated.
Buying a used car may seem like a simple topic.
With gas prices as volatile as a swarm of bees that just had their honey stolen, the SUV market has started to shatter.
Driving a car is a complex physical and mental operation. Not only does it require coordination and reflexes, it also requires rapid assessment skills and good judgment.
We keep our cars tuned up, but what about our automobile insurance? Recently I had a chat with an insurance broker. The topic of conversation? Smart insurance buying.
You're faced with a major auto repair such as an engine, transmission, or differential replacement. Your service provider asks you, "Do you want rebuilt, remanufactured, or used parts?"
With fuel prices still high enough to put a hole in your pocket, where does one turn?
Have you ever wondered what your neighbors are carrying around in their car's trunk or SUV's cargo hold? I decided to find out -- by asking 100 strangers in a department store parking lot.
Before you parachute into a new car dealer looking for the best deal on your next set of wheels, take time to equip yourself with these 10 no-holds-barred buying tips:
Got the urge to save some cash? When economic times get tough, consumers look to wring out as many savings as they can from their daily budget.
That navy blue sedan behind you with the flashing blue light on the dash is probably a cop -- but it could be a creep using police paraphernalia to get you to pull over.
Most people know not to stick their fingers through the bars at the zoo -- though some don't and get to learn from the experience. Likewise, there are things you should never do to your car or truck that can have consequences every bit as unpleasant -- and sometimes as permanent -- as offering your succulent fingertips to a hungry rhesus monkey.
Ah, that new car smell, that eau de car-logne; it does an ego good while it does a wallet bad. And now it turns out, it can do bad things to your health, too.
A month ago I was driving down a South Carolina back road when the car in front of me lost the tread off one of its back tires and the driver quickly veered off onto the shoulder.
People who get speeding tickets are often guilty of more than simply driving faster than the posted limit.
Question: What is the only part of your car that actually touches the ground?
A federal court on Wednesday established a formula for determining the Internet royalties owed to thousands of music composers, writers and publishers by three major online services
Ever since Microsoft announced its surprise bid for Yahoo last month, the heat has been on Time Warner to figure out its next move for AOL, the former Web juggernaut that could be left out in the cold if its two main rivals merge.
AOL will pay $850 million to acquire global social networking site Bebo.com in an all-cash deal announced Thursday.
AOL said Thursday it will pay $850 million to acquire the online hangout Bebo, giving the struggling Internet company a foothold in an expanding business
Two years ago, AOL was the belle of the Internet ball as its owner, Time Warner, entertained teams of suitors hoping to cozy up to the once-dominant Web portal. Microsoft offered to buy half of AOL, but the board of Time Warner demurred. Yahoo offered to acquire the company with stock, which was also a non-starter. In the end Time Warner settled on a deal under which search giant Google invested $1 billion in AOL in exchange for running its search business.
Buying a new car is easy; getting a good deal often isn't. Here's some tips on how to stack the odds a bit more in your favor.
A security hole in widely used versions of AOL's instant-messaging program could let a crook grab control of a victim's computer, according to a security firm that says AOL's steps to repair the problem don't go far enough.
Time Warner Inc. is sure to have a new leader at some point over the next several months. But Dick Parsons, who is still chief executive of the world's largest media company, shed no light Tuesday on exactly when that transition would occur.
AOL stepped up its transformation from Internet access provider into an ad-driven business Monday as it announced plans to move its corporate headquarters and consolidate its advertising operations.
A year ago, Time Warner finally relented to market pressure and decided to stop charging broadband customers for its AOL service access fees. Faced with a steadily declining AOL subscriber base, Time Warner made the decision to focus more on the rapidly growing online advertising market and make much of AOL's services free.
Time Warner Inc.'s AOL unit said Tuesday it has agreed to buy Tacoda, an online advertising company that uses behavioral targeting techniques to track Web user habits.
Averting a looming court battle over how it has been handling the exodus from its Internet dial-up service, AOL has agreed to make it easier for its remaining customers to leave as part of a $3 million settlement
The Live Earth global pop concerts broke a record for an online entertainment show by generating more than 9 million Internet streams, Web portal MSN said Saturday.
Advertisements are everywhere: websites, television and videogames, not to mention coffee coasters, airplane seatback covers, and even umbrellas.
Time Warner AOL Internet division will announce Tuesday production deals for five new Web programs as it tries to shore up its entertainment offerings and draw more advertising dollars.
There's another wireless war brewing in the U.S., only this time it isn't a battle over cellular standards, or even a price war among mobile operators.
New York Times Co. We were wondering how Billy the paperboy could afford that gold-plated Huffy... News carriers and retailers in Worcester, Mass., get an unexpected bonus with their usual shipment of the Telegram & Gazette: the credit and debit card numbers of 240,000 subscribers to the paper and its sister publication the Boston Globe, both owned by the New York Times Co. The security breach is the result of a recycling program in which paper from the Telegram & Gazette's business office is reused to wrap bundles of newspapers.
Federal prosecutors concluded their accounting-fraud case against two former America Online executives Thursday, according to a published report.
Three AOL subscribers are suing the company under privacy laws for releasing their personal search histories, according to a filing made Friday.
The head of troubled AOL defended his firm's newest strategy as the former Internet leader attempts to stay relevant in a world now dominated by faster broadband access services and sites that offer e-mail for free.
By our count, AOL has announced four let's-fix-this-puppy plans in as many years. And almost all of them, despite great hype, have turned out to be fairly modest proposals.
AOL is digging for gold in an effort to recover millions owed by a man it sued for sending out spam, searching for gold and platinum bars he is believed to have buried.
AOL said Thursday that about 5,000 workers will probably be let go within six months as the company moves away from its old dial-up Internet access business in a bid to win more advertising dollars online.
One of the worst kept secrets in the business world finally became official Wednesday: AOL is now going to offer many of its services for free to broadband customers.
Time Warner reported second-quarter earnings Wednesday that slightly exceeded expectations, and also confirmed plans to revamp the strategy for its struggling AOL Internet division.
Looking to spot the next MySpace? Consider Digg.com, a "social news" site caught up just now in a scrappy battle with AOL. "Social news," you ask?
Technology stocks fell Tuesday as investors reacted to a string of disappointing earnings announcements.
For years, Wall Street placed a big, fat zero on AOL's worth. As growth in subscribers and advertising revenue stalled, the online service seemed to have lost its way in the age of broadband.
AOL is mulling a plan to give away its services to customers who already have high-speed Internet service or dial-up service from another company. The company is eager to transform itself from a fee-based Internet-access company to an ad-supported Internet-access provider like Yahoo or Google, according to the Wall Street Journal.
Millions of AOL, Compuserve and Netscape customers around the world were experiencing delays in sending and receiving e-mails Thursday.
Internet service AOL said Thursday it had fixed a software problem that delayed the transmission of millions of e-mails since the late morning.
AOL is struggling to break out of a prolonged slump. But will rolling out new-and-improved versions of other companies' innovative ideas be enough?
AOL will soon launch a new service to users of its AOL Instant Messenger (AIM) software that lets them make free phone calls over the Internet, according to news reports Friday.
The battle for Internet users is escalating.
NEW YORK (CNNMoney.com) - The blogosphere just keeps getting bigger and bigger.
The runaway success that MySpace has enjoyed after News Corp. bought it has the rest of the media world convinced of the value of social networking websites. Indeed, word on the street has been that Time Warner's AOL would use its AIM instant messenger as a platform to jump on the social networking bandwagon. The B2Day blog reported in March that the project was codenamed "AIMSpace" and was expected to launch in mid-April. AOL exec Tina Sharkey argued that AIM was already the "largest social network in the world." The rumors got a bit louder this morning as AOL program manager Armughan Javaid confirmed existence of AOL's MySpace killer, claiming the service "will be open for non-members, and it will be kick-ass!" A note to Javaid: If things don't work out with the new site, you might be able to find a new job through Murdoch's latest Internet investment, job search engine Simply Hired.
Casual games, those five-minute diversions you play for a quick break but somehow end up clicking away on for two hours, have become one of the fastest-growing categories of computer gaming.
Yahoo! and America Online's plan to start charging businesses to send commercial e-mail messages has spurred a protest, according to a report Tuesday.
America Online is set to roll out major new services in the coming months that include a new video search offering and a "voice platform" for its popular instant-messaging service, AIM, according to a published report Monday.
America Online's plan to start charging businesses to send commercial e-mail messages is creating an uproar among some marketers, a newspaper reported Monday.
My thoughts are on two big boys and junk mail this morning.
Google will have the right to sell its new 5 percent stake in America Online as soon as mid-2008, a news report said Saturday.
AOL and Google are in talks about expanding their online ad partnership, and the Internet search giant is also reportedly discussing taking a 5 percent stake in AOL.
Steve Case, AOL's co-founder and a chief architect of its 2001 merger with Time Warner, is now calling for a breakup of the media giant. But as recently as October, he defended the merger to FORTUNE. On a sunny October morning, Case, who was sitting on a tan leather couch in his Washington, D.C. office, insisted the deal still made sense.
Investors looking for something that will move Time Warner's intractable stock price, stuck between $16 and $19 a share for two years, should expect to be disappointed -- again.
The executive who is credited with leading a turnaround of America Online's Instant Messenger unit is reportedly leaving to join a venture capital firm.
Many of the nation's leading Web sites are selling out the inventory of their most viewed ads and dramatically raising rates, according to a published report.
The former chairman of the company formerly known as AOL Time Warner is sitting back on a tan leather couch in his Washington, D.C., office, looking happy and relaxed. I'm here to talk to Steve Cas...
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Microsoft has become the main contender in talks to purchase a major stake in America Online, a news report said Monday.
Time Warner Inc. reported better-than-expected third-quarter sales and earnings Wednesday, thanks to strong results in its cable and network television operations.
When Time Warner announces third-quarter earnings this week, analysts and investors will be looking for hard evidence that the media company's AOL unit has made progress in its effort to develop a Yahoo-like portal that can pull in boatloads of advertising revenue.
TIME WARNER CEO Dick Parsons, the most reserved (some would say inscrutable) of media moguls, must be struggling to suppress a self-satisfied grin right about now. His company's online unit, AOL, h...
Time Warner's board of directors is set to get an update Thursday on talks about selling a stake in its American Online unit, but a decision about which way to go with the Internet operation is still at least weeks away, according to a published report.
In the five years since Time Warner merged with AOL, executives at the media conglomerate (FORTUNE's parent) have viewed the online unit first as the crown jewel, then as a problem child, and more ...
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