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Date: Fri, 21 Jul 1995 00:04:03 -0400

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Internet alliances (Shop Until You Drop)
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Subject: Internet alliances (Shop Until You Drop)

From: Netsurfer Focus, Online Commerce
      Part 1: The Business of the Net
      Wednesday, July 12, 1995
      Volume 01, Issue 02b
      http://www.netsurf.com:80/nsf/v01/02/nsf.01.02a.html

WEB OF ANOTHER SILK
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The one with the most links wins
   
   During the personal computer revolution of the 80's, most of the
   existing computer manufacturers did not take the microcomputer very
   seriously. IBM handed its interest in the problem to Intel and
   Microsoft, and the rest is history. When the Internet burst into
   prominence in the "Global Information Infrastructure", however, many
   organizations didn't make the same mistake twice. Alliances are forming
   thick and fast; and outright acquisitions as well. Browser companies
   were the first to fall to online service providers. Search engines were
   next, as well as a few content producers. Intuit missed the marriage
   with Microsoft thanks to the Department of Justice, but other consumer
   applications have changed ownership. And of course, Netscape's
   strategic partners are legion. Here is our partial tally of the score
   to date.

     * AOL purchases ANS (Internet network infrastructure), Booklink and
       Navisoft (web software), Medior (multimedia production), GNN
       (content and Internet landmark), WAIS (information indexing and
       publishing system), Webcrawler (search engine).
     * Bank of America buys Mecca's Managing Your Money (personal
       finance).
     * CompuServe purchases Spry (browser).
     * Home Shopping Network buys Internet Shopping Network, and CUC buys
       NetMarket (online shopping).
     * IBM takes over Lotus for its Notes product.
     * Microsoft gets a stake in Spyglass (browser), and UUNet (Internet
       infrastructure) and licenses Lycos (search engine), and partners
       with NBC and Dreamworks (content).
     * Netscape partners with Adobe (desktop publishing), Macromedia
       (multimedia presentation), Mastercard (financial application), Sun
       Microsystems (hot java browser technology), Verity (search
       engine), Terisa Systems (security) .
     * PSI buys Pipeline (local Internet service provider and browser).

   Are you tangled up yet? Maybe we should have called THIS section "Shop
   Until You Drop". For a graphical version of this web of alliances,
   check out our (large) gifs at    
   "http://www.netsurf.com/nsf/v01/02/local/web.html"