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IP: NETSCAPE IS "IN MERGER TALKS WITH AMERICA ONLINE"
From: Dave Farber <farber () central cis upenn edu>
Date: Tue, 13 Feb 1996 18:16:38 -0500
Date: Tue, 13 Feb 1996 10:42:38 -0800 To: cypherpunks () toad com 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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