An early web browser company with a portal directory.
Acquired · Jun 29Its 1999 deal to back-fill its directory with Google results brought 3 million searches a day. The traffic nearly broke Google's servers, so Google shut off google.com for a day to serve Netscape users.
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Lenny's Podcast · Jan 9Houston studied it as a case study. Internet Explorer 1 to 3 were weak, but versions 4 and 5 with bundling did the real damage.
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Acquired · Jul 21It IPO'd in August 1995 at a $3 billion market cap and tripled to about $10 billion. Free IE bundled with Windows cut its share, its stock fell a third on December 7, 1995, and AOL bought it for just over $4 billion in 1998.
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OtherA consumer technology company that makes the Mac, iPod, iPhone and software.
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