SingTel just announced that he had reached a "non-binding conditional agreement" to take 14.5% of Time Engineering, 20% of Time dotCom and 20% of Time's new Internet Service Provider, Time Online.

CNN: Business: SingTel Wins One At Last

People who work at home (the authors quote a wince-making diary of a home-office worker's efforts to set up an account with a new Internet service provider) lack such support, which is why conventional offices, in some form or other, are here to stay.

ECONOMIST: Predictions about technology

The web co-working clause will see AOL, which in America Online has the world's biggest internet service provider, swap research with Unilever's New Jersey laboratories, which are developing next generation mobile and in-home technology.

BBC: Unilever and AOL seal 'landmark' ad deal

In 2012, New Jersey-based intellectual property owner Suffolk Technologies sued Google and US internet service provider AOL over two patents it had acquired from BT.

BBC: BT Tower

He launched the first artist-created internet service provider, Bowienet, in 1998, and sold bonds on the New York money markets.

BBC: NEWS | Entertainment | Bowie: Pop's most enduring star

Getting hosed by your Internet service provider may seem as inevitable as death and taxes, but a new startup aims to change that.

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