Netscape Communications Corporation was an American independent computer services company with headquarters in Mountain View, California and then Dulles, Virginia.
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20 Facts About Netscape Communications
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Netscape Communications developed SSL which was used for securing online communications before its successor TLS took over.
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Netscape Communications stock traded from 1995 until 1999 when the company was acquired by AOL in a pooling-of-interests transaction ultimately worth US$10 billion.
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Netscape Communications was the first company to attempt to capitalize on the emerging World Wide Web.
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Meanwhile, Netscape Communications faced increasing criticism for "featuritis" – putting a higher priority on adding new features than on making their products work properly.
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Netscape Communications experienced its first bad quarter at the end of 1997 and underwent a large round of layoffs in January 1998.
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Netscape Communications publicly released the source code of Netscape Communications Communicator 5.
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Netscape Communications was not a plaintiff in the case, though its executives were subpoenaed and it contributed much material to the case, including the entire contents of the 'Bad Attitude' internal discussion forum.
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Netscape Communications had its own programming staff devoted to the development and support for the series of web browsers.
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Additionally, Netscape Communications maintained the Propeller web portal, which was a popular social-news site, similar to Digg, which was given a new look in June 2006.
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On January 22,1998, Netscape Communications Corporation announced that all future versions of its software would be available free of charge and developed by an open source community, Mozilla.
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In 1998, an informal group called the Mozilla Organization was formed and largely funded by Netscape Communications to coordinate the development of Netscape Communications 5, which would be based on the Communicator source code.
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Netscape Communications introduced a new AOL-free-version of the browser suite.
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On June 11,2007, Netscape Communications announced Netscape Communications Mercury, a standalone email and news client that was to accompany Navigator 9.
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Netscape Communications operated a search engine, Netscape Communications Search, which now redirects to AOL Search.
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Netscape Communications NewsQuake is Netscape Communications's news and opinion blog, including video clips and discussions.
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Netscape Communications ISP is a dial-up Internet service once offered at US$9.
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Netscape Communications drove much traffic from various links included in the browser menus to its web properties.
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The new AOL Netscape Communications site was originally previewed in August 2007 before moving the existing site in September 2007.
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