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As you know, Time Warner eventually spun off AOL for peanuts.

Only a year has passed since AMD officially spun off its manufacturing division with the help of ATIC.

eg. He rescued the company and later spun off its textile division into a separate company.

With these words the wheel of blades spun off the former victim's neck and began spinning around the head of Mittavinda.

Two years later the group's agricultural activities were spun off into a new Monsanto.

Their hope was that those tumours would include the secondaries spun off by melanoma.

He's talking about proprietary trading desks, the majority of which have been closed down or spun off in the last two years.

Those duties may be spun off into a third regulator, as they are in France, Italy and Spain.

In April 2007, Obvious, LLC spun off the service as a separate entity under the name Twitter, Inc. , with Jack Dorsey as its CEO.

AOL, which has been consistently losing users and revenue, is being spun off from Time Warner back into a standalone company in December.

A source familiar with Fiat's thinking said on Tuesday that the auto business would be spun off as part of the plan.

Many banks have already spun off prop desks, which would clearly fall foul of the new rules, but a vast grey area of activity remains.

ICI spun off its profitable pharmaceutical business (now part of AstraZeneca) rather than build it up by acquisition.

Instead, it will offer the expertise of its faculty on a new for-profit site which will be spun off as an independent company.

Unlike other incumbents, BT has no mobile arm, having spun off O2 to reduce its debts.

He added that animation and children's programming as well as home shopping would also be spun off.

In 1991, Quaker Oats spun off its Fisher-Price division and the company became an independent, publicly traded company.

Originally formed under the banner of DreamWorks SKG, it was spun-off into a separate public company in 2004.

With that momentum, PepsiCo (which also owned KFC and Pizza Hut) spun off its restaurant group as Tricon.

After each brush, moisture should be spun off and put bundle upwards in the breathing place to avoid bacteria growing on the bundle.

The US carmaker later gave its Swedish affiliate about $500m in cash and assets to prepare it for life as a spun-off company.

What's new now is that capital raising is being spun off as a separate unit by the banks, in an effort to focus more on the service itself.

The invention of new materials for space travel has spun off a great many useful products for home and industry.

In 1999 it was spun off from Ubisoft, another game company, to focus on the emerging market for cell phone games in Europe and Asia.

She quickly gained operational experience and was offered the property portfolio just before M&B was spun off from Bass in 2003.

Even though we haven't detected gravitational waves yet , there have already been technical advancements spun off from the search effort .

Theoretically, the unit could be spun off as a stand-alone bank-holding company.

They were state-created and quickly spun-off private and entrepreneurial ventures.

As the new ideology took hold it spun off radical interpretations that came to threaten the region's existing regimes.

The Muslim Brotherhood, milder than the Salafists but with pretensions to represent orthodoxy, has itself spun off new political trends.

As the missile entered production, NAA spun off Rocketdyne in 1955 as a separate division.

Vertical integration is less common as mills have spun off forestlands and pulp assets to finance acquisitions.

Proprietary-trading desks have been closed or are being spun off, as are hedge funds.

The reality is, we'd just been spun off from Viacom, and most of our stock was held by hedge funds.

It also spun off e-learning and merger-advisory activities, in which it is keeping a small stake.

morgan stanley and jp morgan chase , for instance , both spun off their buy - out arms to managers.

Of course, the end goal in all this is to create a company that can ultimately generate big profits and be spun off.

Pepsi spun off the bottlers in 1999, following a similar move from top rival Coca-Cola Co.

CMA CGM has spun off and listed in New York Global Ship Lease, which owns many of its ships.

Mr. Norris became CEO and spun off BlueCava to market device fingerprinting both to fraud-prevention and online-ad firms.

Altria Group Inc. in Richmond, Va. , the owner of Philip Morris USA, spun off Philip Morris International in 2008.

Many new things found useful in the home have spun off from the machinery of space travel.

Avis and Budget were spun off by their former owner as Avis Budget Group Inc. in 2006, and Enterprise bought National and Alamo in 2007.

In 2008, the Ministry of Finance spun off more than 800 billion yuan worth of nonperforming loans from AgBank's balance sheet.

You'll break the high-level tasks down into subtasks that can be spun off into their own jobs.

Luckily we were not going very fast when the wheel spun off and the car crashed in the lawn.

When 3Com, the technology company, spun off its Palm unit, only 5 per cent of the Palm shares were sold; the rest went to 3Com shareholders.

Reporter He spun off Momix in 1980.

China Post was spun off from the government into a standalone corporation last year, though it wasn't privatized.

In May 2009, HTIL spun off its operations in Hong Kong and Macao into a separate company that was listed in the territory.

Mr. Weinstein, now 37 years old, spun off his trading group last April into a hedge fund called Saba Capital Management LP.