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Timeline: AOL & Time Warner
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Jan. 22, 2003: America Online and HP say they will sell instant messaging services to businesses.
Jan. 16, 2003: AOL Time Warner CEO Richard Parsons is selected to succeed Steve Case as chairman.
Jan. 13, 2003: America Online chief executive Jonathan F. Miller shakes up the firm's structure yet again.
Jan. 12, 2003: Steve Case announces he will resign as chairman of AOL Time Warner Inc.
Jan. 6, 2003: Will Steve Case survive as chairman of AOL Time Warner Inc., the world's biggest media and Internet company, during 2003? That central question was on the minds of AOL watchers, subscribers and investors as the new year began.
Dec. 11, 2002: America Online Inc. cuts 300 jobs from its Internet operations, the first step in a planned overhaul of the service that includes adoption of a wide-ranging business strategy outlined by chief executive Jonathan F. Miller.
Dec. 3, 2002: America Online outlines a broad new strategy to reinvigorate the troubled online service but warns that a precipitous drop in advertising next year would delay its financial recovery until at least 2004.
Nov. 22, 2002: Sources say America Online Inc. plans to offer future Internet services in ways that more closely resemble cable television, with targeted programming scheduled for specific days of the week based on the varying interests of its subscribers.
Nov. 19, 2002: America Online Inc. lays off about 90 people from its advertising sales force as senior officials prepare to present a strategy to overhaul the struggling online unit to AOL Time Warner Inc.'s board of directors tomorrow.
Nov. 12, 2002: America Online, beset by tough competition, weak ad revenue and a federal probe into its bookkeeping practices, loses the charismatic leader of its flagship Internet service when James de Castro announces his resignation after only seven months on the job.
Nov. 12, 2002: An America Online spokesman says that, more than a year after announcing a plan to enter China, AOL has quietly begun testing a pay Internet service in the world's most populous nation.
Nov. 11, 2002:VeriSign says it will provide e-mail, Web site and domain name services to members of America Online's new small business Internet service.


