The Twelve Most Tarnished Brands In Tech
harrymcc writes “Polaroid, Netscape, CompuServe, Westinghouse, Heathkit — these were once among the most respected names in the technology business. They’re still around, but what’s happened to them is...
View ArticleAndreesen Offers New Browser ‘Rockmelt’
DrHeasley writes “Rockmelt, available for the first time Monday, is built on the premise that most online activity today revolves around socializing on Facebook, searching on Google, tweeting on...
View ArticleWill 2011 Finally Be the Year of the Cleantech IPO? (TCTV)
In retrospect, Tesla may have been cleantech’s Netscape moment. It didn’t get off to the world’s greatest start, but like a few other venture-backed IPOs, lately it has been trading at nearly double...
View ArticleRetro Browser War: IE6 Vs. Netscape In 2011
jbrodkin writes “What if you took the raw, pre-patched, 10-year-old versions of Internet Explorer 6 and Netscape 6.1 and tried to surf the modern Web? What would happen? You might think firing up IE6...
View ArticleAccel, Khosla, and Andreessen Horowitz Pour Another $30 Million Into Social...
Is there a future for social browser startup RockMelt? Despite attracting only a few hundred thousand active users since its much-hyped launch, the company filled with ex-Netscape rockstars and backed...
View ArticleMicrosoft Tried To Buy Netscape: Suppose They Had?
Glyn Moody writes “In an interview, Brendan Eich, the creator of JavaScript and currently CIO at Mozilla, reveals that Microsoft tried to buy Netscape at the end of 1994. They were turned down because...
View ArticleAOL Patent Deal Means Microsoft Now Holds Vestiges of Netscape
inode_buddha writes “It’s part of the $1 billion AOL patent deal, and it’s something that would have made many minds explode back in the 1990s. It still makes my mind explode today. Marc Andreesen...
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