1996-02-14 - NETSCAPE IS “IN MERGER TALKS WITH AMERICA ONLINE”

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From: frantz@netcom.com (Bill Frantz)
To: cypherpunks@toad.com
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UTC Datetime: 1996-02-14 02:27:17 UTC
Raw Date: Wed, 14 Feb 1996 10:27:17 +0800

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From: frantz@netcom.com (Bill Frantz)
Date: Wed, 14 Feb 1996 10:27:17 +0800
To: cypherpunks@toad.com
Subject: NETSCAPE IS "IN MERGER TALKS WITH AMERICA ONLINE"
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PowerPC News (free by mailing add@aptdata.co.uk) quotes Reuter as as saying
that Thomas Middelhoff, a board member of Bertelsmann AG, which has a
significant stake in America  Online, said that a decision on the merger
could be made within a month. He noted that new data showed that 40% of US
Internet traffic was flowing through America OnLine's network and that
together with Netscape the two companies would effectively  control the
technology now shaping the global network - "And then Microsoft would be
left without an Internet standard,".







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