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  • March 2008

    • Silicon Valley's Prodigal Son Comes Home

      BusinessWeek  |  Mar 19, 08 9:50 PM CDT

      Silicon Valley's Prodigal Son Comes Home

      (Newser) - Silicon Valley prodigal son Frank Quattrone is staging a comeback, poised to debut his new tech-centered investment bank Qatalyst—after years recovering from federal obstruction-of-justice charges. But now that he's back, the question is whether the industry will welcome home an errant child with open arms. Probably, BusinessWeek writes—if he wields his Rolodex right. More »

    • Late Adopters Send Message to Tech Industry

      New York Times  |  Mar 12, 08 3:32 PM CDT

      Late Adopters Send Message to Tech Industry

      (Newser) - Netscape Navigator is still the browser of choice for 0.14% of Internet users, which doesn’t sound like a lot, until you realize that’s over a million people. They, and other late adopters like them, are becoming a rare breed in today’s world of automatic updates, but they play a key role for the tech industry they spurn, the New York Times reports. More »

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      technology  • AOL  • innovation  • Netscape  • dial-up Internet  • upgrades

    • Come See the Softer Side of Microsoft

      San Jose Mercury News  |  Mar 2, 08 8:18 AM CST

      Come See the Softer Side of Microsoft

      (Newser) - Yahoo executives, take note: Microsoft is trying to shed its bully reputation in Silicon Valley in favor of a kinder, gentler, hands-off approach to the smaller start-ups it acquires, the San Jose Mercury News says. Company officials want it known that this isn’t your older brother’s Microsoft—the one that suffocated Netscape, intimidated venture capitalists, and allegedly swiped competitors’ ideas. More »

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      Microsoft  • Yahoo  • Silicon Valley  • Netscape  • Redmond  • Tellme  • Mountain View

  • December 2007

    • AOL Pulls Plug on Netscape Browser

      CNET  |  Dec 28, 07 7:14 PM CST

      AOL Pulls Plug on Netscape Browser

      (Newser) - AOL today announced that it will discontinue support and development of its Netscape Navigator browser, a program that first introduced many to the Internet when it launched 13 years ago. But, CNET's Stephen Shankland writes, Microsoft's Internet Explorer ate into market share for Netscape, which was bought by AOL—which in turn spun off the Mozilla Foundation and its popular Firefox browser. More »

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      Internet  • AOL  • Firefox  • web browser  • World Wide Web  • Netscape

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