It has grown into a company of 800 employees and is giving companies like America Online a run for its money on the Web.
Talks are afoot with America Online to build a Europe-wide alliance.
America Online--a division of Time Warner (nyse: TWX - news - people )--has more than 29 million subscribers worldwide, and a reputation for being user-friendly, making it the Internet service provider of choice for many otherwise tech-phobic consumers.
The fake Avastin apparently hopped from Turkey to Britain to America, with help from a Canadian online pharmacy.
He knows that Altavista, like Yahoo, America Online and Netscape, is a name which is closely associated with the internet.
Sun's applications server strategy became somewhat hazy after the acquisition, when, as a spin-off of America Online's (AOL)purchase of Netscape Communications, Sun acquired Netscape's application server software.
Others believe the dot.com era really ended when Asia Global Crossing became in September 2000 the last flotation in a series dating back to America Online in 1992.
Shut-downs are now far less frequent, so that a typical station in America is now online 90% of the time, up from less than 50% in the 1970s.
In Georgia it's a crime for people to communicate anonymously over the Net, which could come as a surprise to 8 million America Online users, most of whom use pseudonyms.
In America, says Forrester, a consultancy, online advertising makes up 0.7% of total ad spending a figure that Forrester, which is bullish about the Internet, does not expect to hit even 5% in the next five years.
The Internet Corporation for Assigned Names and Numbers (ICANN) last week announced that five companies, including America Online, will participate in a test bed for a new domain name registration system designed to end Network Solutions, Inc.
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In a world where an archrival like America Online buys old-media stalwart Time Warner, Koogle's Yahoo has no best friend.
Then, in 1996, America Online opened the floodgates by introducing a monthly flat rate instead of charging by the hour.
As punters revealed a taste for going online, America's big gambling companies, such as MGM Mirage, Harrah's Entertainment and Caesar's Entertainment, were deterred by the legal problems from offering web-based services and cashing in on their well-known brands.
Comcast hopes to find a white knight (perhaps Microsoft or America Online) concerned about so much cable being controlled by one company.
Just as with America Online (AOL), users pay a monthly fee to use MSN 8 that includes spam filters, e-mail managing software, and other tools.
Take for instance a set of patents Microsoft purchased from America Online in April, that Microsoft two weeks later sold to Facebook, who in turn used them to sue Mitel for patent infringement.
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Many (possibly including Robert Gates, America's defence secretary) agreed with an article by Fred Kaplan, a commentator, in Slate, an online magazine, last February suggesting that, although America had gained from having fighting allies in Afghanistan, it had been wrong to let NATO lead the mission.
Citigroup will soon launch a similar service in co-operation with America Online, the biggest Internet service provider.
America Online 's warning this morning is neither a surprise, nor a disaster.
MyTurn's operating system was first developed over a decade ago by Geoworks and used in America Online's first dial-up software.
Mark Rhoades, vice president for legislation at the U.S. Internet Council, another industry group in Washington, said Virginia has by far the most stringent Internet laws because about half of all emails in the U.S. go through America Online, based in Dulles, Virginia, a Washington suburb.
On June 25th, Tesco announced a deal with America's Safeway group to extend its online-grocery model into the United States.
America Online quickly followed suit, bumping prices by 10% a month later.
America Online (AOL) says that at any time between a third and two-thirds of its server capacity is taken up by spam (though the firm noted a decline in 2004).
Longtime rival Credit Suisse, aided by its acquisition of America's DLJ Direct, is offering both an online and a "personal banker" service, but its target market extends to slightly less prosperous customers.
As the biggest player in the online restaurant reservation industry in North America, OpenTable has a significant competitive advantage with more than 13, 000 of the estimated 30, 000 reservation-taking full-service restaurants in North America as its customers.
But perhaps the biggest threat to the market leader would be a further WTO ruling or, ironically, a change of heart in America that led to the legalisation of online gambling there and allowed established firms from the pastime's spiritual home to enter the market.
But he is governor of Virginia, a state which hosts big e-commerce companies such as America Online.
As the number of people investing on the stock market via the internet increases in America, investors can buy and sell shares online as easily as ordering a pizza.
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