Netscape

"RSS was born in 1997 out of the confluence of Dave Winer's 'Really Simple Syndication' technology, used to push out blog updates, and Netscape's 'Rich Site Summary', which allowed users to create custom Netscape home pages with regularly...

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...nails in the Google coffin. Note: Microsoft used a similar tactic with Internet Explorer and Windows Server/IIS to thwart the Netscape threat. When in doubt, go with what you know. Of course, the preceding is just one man's opinion. I...

In this article: Microsoft, Google Chrome OS, Google, Linux, Mountain View, Cloud computing, and Internet Explorer

...company is you get a lot of opportunity. And my opportunity was to build from scratch their coverage of the Internet, starting with Netscape's IPO. It was phenomenal to meet those people (Jerry Yang, Jeff Bezos, Marc Andreessen) when...

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...and venture-capital firms including Accel Partners and Greylock Partners. Facebook's board of directors now includes Zuckerberg, Netscape founder Marc Andreessen, Accel's Jim Breyer, Washington Post Co. Chief Executive Don Graham and...

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...with two of the Valley's best-known firms - Benchmark Capital has funded Twitter, eBay and Red Hat and Andreessen-Horowitz is the new fund from Netscape co-founder Marc Andreessen and Ben Horowitz. The new round is specifically to attract the...

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...better known as Sunset Carson, boxer LaVerne Roach, basketball coach Harley Redin, state legislator Pete Laney and his wife Nelda, Netscape founder Jim Clark and Jo-Carroll Dennison, Miss America 1942. Watson also plans an exhibit on...

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...combination of Time Inc and Warner Communications; and Steve Case, chairman of AOL, the dotcom darling which had effortlessly swallowed Netscape for $4.2bn just months earlier. It was at this rather grand gathering that the first seed was...

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...in Redmond, Washington. What competitive challenge, I asked, did he most fear? Gates did not recite the usual litany of prominent foes - Netscape, Sun Microsystems, Oracle, Apple. Instead, he said, "I fear someone in a garage who is devising...

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There was a time when Microsoft could skimp on Internet Explorer innovation. Having trounced its Netscape rival, Microsoft rested on its IE laurels for years, barely updating the browser. Today, Microsoft can't afford to rest on any...

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In the late 90s and early 2000s, the Opera browser was a strong alternative to Microsoft Corp.'s Internet Explorer and Time Warner Inc.'s Netscape. But its popularity has diminished with the rise of Netscape's successor, Mozilla's Firefox.

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