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Netscape co-founder Andreessen joins HP board
News Netscape founder Marc Andreessen has joined HP's board of directors, two years after selling his software company Opsware to the PC giant. In a statement, HP's chairman Mark Hurd described Andreessen as "a software pioneer whose leadership has...
[September 18, 2009, 16:57]
eBay sells Skype for $2bn
News E-commerce giant eBay announced on Tuesday that it is selling its Skype unit for $2bn (£1.2bn) to an investor group that includes Marc Andreessen's new venture. The Andreessen Horowitz venture capital group was launched in July by Marc Andreessen...
[September 1, 2009, 15:50]
Andreessen dialling back at AOL
News Online pioneer Marc Andreessen will dial back his role as chief technical officer of America Online to become a part-time strategic adviser, the company announced. Andreessen will advise AOL on emerging technologies and new investments, splitting...
[September 13, 1999, 10:51]
HP to integrate Opsware into datacentre
News Aiming to boost its products for managing large corporate data centres, Hewlett-Packard plans on Monday to announce a partnership with Opsware, the Marc Andreessen-led software maker formerly known as Loudcloud.
[June 2, 2003, 8:23]
eBay finalises $2.75bn sale of Skype
News Auction site eBay has sold off the Skype telephony service to a group of investors that includes Marc Andreessen's new Andreessen Horowitz group, Silver Lake, and the Skype co-founders' company Joltid.
[November 20, 2009, 14:48]
Skype sale announcement expected from eBay
News The investment group will reportedly include Andreessen Horowitz, a venture capital group launched in July by Marc Andreessen, founder of Netscape and co-founder of Opsware, and Ben Horowitz, also co-founder of Opsware.
[September 1, 2009, 9:36]
Netscape updates browser despite Andreessen's gloom
News Recent comments on browsers in general by Netscape co-founder Marc Andreessen -- now chairman of Opsware -- are unlikely to boost morale at Netscape's headquarters or to help convince AOL executives that the unit is earning its keep.
[July 2, 2003, 8:35]
Microsoft on Trial: Netscape 'imagined' antitrust case
News The government earlier submitted a set of notes taken by Netscape co-founder Marc Andreessen to show what took place at the meeting. In response, Warden produced a 1997 deposition in which Andreessen told federal investigators.
[October 23, 1998, 10:48]
Microsoft on Trial: Microsoft lawyers grill Netscape CEO
News In one of the more entertaining exchanges between the two, Warden asked Barksdale about a statement given by Marc Andreessen regarding how the browser was going to be the networked application platform of the future, and that Windows would be...
[October 21, 1998, 9:30]
Netscape: A decade of survival
News Even Netscape founder Marc Andreessen, who last year dismissed the state of browser navigation as "an embarrassment", recently weighed in with praise for Firefox, which he said along with open-source based Safari could threaten IE.
[October 22, 2004, 12:35]
The next battleground: Linux vs. Windows?
News Netscape's executive vice president of products Marc Andreessen, who spoke at the Silicon Valley Linux Users Group meeting, went on record espousing the potential market benefits of a Communicator plus Linux combination.
[April 6, 1998, 7:00]
AOL enters browser wars
News Netscape founder Marc Andreessen last week said that the rise of these new software products may prompt Microsoft to reignite the browser wars. Competition may be a good thing, Andreessen added, claiming that browser innovation has been at a...
[October 11, 2004, 10:40]
Microsoft on Trial: Barksdale marathon drawing to an end
News Warden produced a June 22 e-mail from Netscape co-founder Marc Andreessen to two Netscape attorneys. Wasn't it a fact, he asked Barksdale, that Reback had asked Marc Andreessen to take notes on the June 21 meeting?
[October 27, 1998, 10:16]
The browser wars are back, according to Netscape's founder
News The Web browser wars may have been reignited, according to browser pioneer Marc Andreessen. This time, it's not Andreessen's former company Netscape Communications that's taking on Microsoft's Internet Explorer; it's the emerging popularity of...
[October 7, 2004, 9:15]
Andreessen's Loudcloud in IPO high-wire act
News Heralded as the brainchild of celebrated chairman Marc Andreessen, Loudcloud was thought to mark a coming of age for the 29-year-old wunderkind as his first venture beyond the shadow of Netscape Communications.
[January 31, 2001, 10:25]
Andreessen: The future is PHP
News The simplicity of scripting language PHP means it will be more popular than Java for building Web-based applications, Internet browser pioneer Marc Andreessen predicted It's become arguably even harder to learn than C++," Andreessen said.
[October 20, 2005, 13:10]
P2P: Barksdale and Andreessen are back!
News Netscape founders Jim Barksdale and Marc Andreessen are quietly working on a project to merge some of Akamai Technologies' approach with a Napster-like model, sources say. Andreessen when reached declined to comment specifically on the start-up.
[March 6, 2001, 8:40]
'Refresh' button could become obsolete
News A new company backed by Netscape founder Marc Andreessen and MIT Labs director Nicolas Negroponte is bringing real-time information updates to the Web browser. Information junkies, your day has come. No longer will stock traders and eBay...
[April 2, 2001, 9:51]
Navigator 4.0 bells and whistles will be hardwired
News At yesterday's London launch, the company's VP of technology Marc Andreessen confirmed that customers would not have the option of a browser-only version of Navigator 4.0. Instead, users would have to remain with Navigator 3.0, earlier versions, or...
[October 16, 1996, 16:13]
Netscape shows intra-net hand
News CEO James Barksdale was here while senior VP of technology Marc Andreessen was on the other side of the Atlantic to tout the firm's latest client-server products. Netscape this afternoon revealed its intra-net hand at a simultaneous London and New...
[October 15, 1996, 17:21]
