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...billion Estimated value of the merger between Excite and @Home...
...another massive merger in the Internet biz. Last week At Home picked up Excite; today Yahoo throws free home page service GeoCities into its shopping basket. The latest deal makes Yahoo much bigger, second only in reach to the mighty America Online. Quite a feat if you consider that no one's browser comes preloaded with a Yahoo home page. And what a validation for GeoCities, a company that seemed absurd as recently as last year -- will anyone ever make money on free web sites...
...Company whose $76 billion merger with Travelers Group was the largest in the history of financial services...
...Boies perturbed by these developments? Not a bit, he says. Should he be? Well, South Carolina's Republican attorney general Charlie Condon says he broke ranks because the proposed merger of AOL and Netscape proves that Microsoft does not monopolize the PC industry. Because that is the point Microsoft has been earnestly making for two weeks, there was some celebration at the company's glitzy press conference Monday (the same event where Bill Gates, appearing by satellite, accused Boies of being "out to destroy Microsoft...and make us look very...
Ever since the AOL-Netscape merger was announced last month, Microsoft has claimed that it would radically alter the balance of the browser wars because Netscape would suddenly have preferential access to AOL's immense subscriber base. But Justice prosecutor David Boies has countered that the merger was a last resort for Netscape -- a direct consequence of the beating it took because of Microsoft's underhanded grab for market share. And regardless of the new world order, the image of one of the world's most brilliant businessmen pretending not to understand the simplest questions about his own company will...