BUSINESS
February 27, 2002 | JOSEPH MENN, TIMES STAFF WRITER
Former Netscape Communications Corp. Chief Executive James Barksdale, a key witness in next month's Microsoft antitrust trial, will testify that if the software giant's proposed settlement with the Justice Department had been in place six years ago, Netscape might never have been formed. As the lead-off witness in the Justice Department's first trial against the software giant in 1998, Barksdale won points with his folksy language.
BUSINESS
March 21, 2000
Yahoo Inc. introduced a business-to-business directory that lists equipment and supplies that companies can buy on the Web. . . . Compaq Computer Corp. will put Microsoft Corp.'s Internet service on its Presario personal computers under a three-year alliance. . . . Netscape Communications Corp. said it will release a test version of its long-overdue Web browser, Netscape 6.0, within the next 25 days.
NEWS
November 7, 1999 | CHARLES PILLER, TIMES STAFF WRITER
Even before Judge Thomas Penfield Jackson issued his legal broadside against Microsoft Corp. on Friday, the company was facing some of its gravest threats in years. Jackson's ruling is likely to make all these threats worse. Morale at the company is already thought to be slipping as the world changes around it, with many top executives having quit in recent months.
NEWS
November 6, 1999 | CHARLES PILLER, TIMES STAFF WRITER
U.S. District Judge Thomas Penfield Jackson's finding Friday that Microsoft Corp. uses monopoly power to harm potential competitors could accelerate a dilution of the company's once-unquestioned dominance over the software industry. Antitrust experts called the findings a resounding victory for the Department of Justice. The action foreshadows a final ruling in the landmark antitrust case against the high-tech titan, strongly suggesting Jackson will rule that Microsoft violated antitrust laws.
BUSINESS
October 27, 1999 | Reuters
Marc Andreessen, a co-founder of Netscape Communications Corp. who until recently served as the chief technology officer of America Online Inc., announced a new company called Loudcloud Inc. that will foster Internet businesses. Andreessen said the new company aims to capitalize on the trend toward more sophisticated and complex Internet sites by delivering the technology and services they require.
BUSINESS
May 31, 1999 | JUBE SHIVER Jr., TIMES STAFF WRITER
Microsoft Corp. faces off Tuesday against the Justice Department in the next phase of the landmark antitrust trial whose outcome is expected to transform the technology landscape. The software giant is expected to focus on America Online Inc.'s $10-billion purchase of Netscape Communications Corp. to show that the computer industry remains highly competitive.