Netscape to expand Internet service, boosting its rivalry with other firms
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Netscape is planning to shift its recently introduced Netcenter on-line service into a major Internet gateway. This move to a broader 'portal' site will offer customers a package of content, communications and community features as well as Internet navigation features. Netscape not only will compete more directly with significant Internet players, but the Netscape site configuration might include a single partnership or series of partnerships with the same players. Internet rivals in negotiations with Netscape are Yahoo!, Excite, America Online, plus search-engine companies like Infoseek and Lycos. Among the options are selling them premium placement on the popular Netcenter site to large-scale programming deals. Netscape.com's 23.1 million discrete users in Feb 1998 ranked it second among most-visited Web sites, according to a recent RelevantKnowledge poll. Yahoo.com led with 31.3 million visitors, and Microsoft.com placed third with 17.9 million users.
Publication Name: The Wall Street Journal Western Edition
Subject: Business, general
ISSN: 0193-2241
Year: 1998
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Netscape to offer new Internet software in bid to head off inroads by Microsoft
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Netscape plans to offer a stand-alone version of its original Netscape Navigator Web browser software, called Navigator 4.0, to deal with the growing competition from Microsoft's Internet Explorer 4.0. The move is a deviation from the company's previous strategy of offering a groupware program called Communicator that included Navigator, along with electronic mail and capability to carry out collaborative work over networks. Netscape's allies including IBM and Novell were bundling Navigator with their groupware products, but were reluctant to offer the Communicator because it competed with their products. However, IBM included Microsoft's Internet Explorer with SmartSuite and Notes made by Lotus. IBM is likely to agree to offer Navigator 4.0 as an option for users of its PCs and software. Also, Netscape's other partners including Sun Microsystems and Novell plan to support Navigator 4.0.
Publication Name: The Wall Street Journal Western Edition
Subject: Business, general
ISSN: 0193-2241
Year: 1997
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Microsoft says it will phase out use of Inktomi Internet-search technology
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Microsoft Corp. ends its Internet-search technology contract with Inktomi Corp. and will use AltaVista search technology on all Microsoft Network (MSN) Web sites. In turn, AltaVista will now use Microsoft's Hotmail e-mail service and will incorporate other Microsoft services in the future. Compaq, which recently spun-off AltaVista, will enter into community-building and Web-based communications projects with Microsoft. Compaq looks to AltaVista's link to MSN sites to gain traffic for the search service. Compaq is contemplating a 1999 initial public offering for AltaVista which will provide capital for acquisitions and be a boon to Compaq stockholders, as will the company's pending purchase of Shopping.com. The spun-off company, AltaVista Co., will have its headquarters in Palo Alto, CA with Rod W. Schrock the new CEO.
Publication Name: The Wall Street Journal Western Edition
Subject: Business, general
ISSN: 0193-2241
Year: 1999
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