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  • AOL to lay off 700 employees

    AOL to lay off 700 employees

    MUMBAI: Time Warner’s America Online (AOL) unit has announced plans to lay off 700 employees, mainly from its various call centers.

    AOL is closing its Orlando, Florida call center and laying off the 450 employees who work there, according to spokesman Nicholas Graham. Other centers hit by the cut include Jacksonville, Florida, Tucson, Arizona, and headquarters in Dulles, northern Virginia.

    According to the company, it is the decline in AOL’s dial up subscriber numbers in the recent past which has forced it now to take the drastic step. The cuts amount to about 4 per cent of AOL’s global workforce.

     

  • Arun Aggarwal appointed Zee Turner CFO

    Arun Aggarwal appointed Zee Turner CFO

    NEW DELHI: Zee Turner, a joint venture between Zee Telefilms and Time Warner, is getting itself a chief finance officer (CFO) in the form of Arun Aggarwal.

    Aggarwal, who has been heading the credit control division of Zee Telefilms in Mumbai, has been transferred to the joint venture company, which pushes ahead to expand the market for Zee and Turner bouqet of channels.

    Aggarwal, a finance person, has been with Zee Telefilms for the past six years.

    Zee Turner, a 74:26 joint venture, is responsible for distribution of 17-odd channels , including Zee TV, CNN, Pogo, Cartoon Network, VH1, HBO, Zee Music, Zee News and Alpha brand of regional channels.

    Incidenatlly, HBO also has joined the Zee bandwagon and is now available on the DTH platform of Dish TV, 20 per cent owned by Zee Tele