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Revolution at the Edge

Ben's Blog

In the late year of 1995, IBM acquired Lotus Development, makers of the Lotus 123 spreadsheet and a proprietary Internet predecessor, Lotus Notes, for $3.5B—more People point to Marc Andreessen’s Mosaic browser as the point at which everything changed, but that’s not what actually happened. Marc released Mosaic in 1993.

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Revolution at the Edge

Ben's Blog

In the late year of 1995, IBM acquired Lotus Development, makers of the Lotus 123 spreadsheet and a proprietary Internet predecessor, Lotus Notes, for $3.5B—more People point to Marc Andreessen’s Mosaic browser as the point at which everything changed, but that’s not what actually happened. Marc released Mosaic in 1993.

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30 Entrepreneurs Reveal The Companies They Admire Most For Innovation

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Beginning in 1995 as BackRub, Google slowly and steadily began to conquer the world. Google was initially meant to be a search engine and today the company has ventured into wearable technology, renewable energy, mobile phones, and other web applications. for how they’ve disrupted application development across all sectors.

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Bubble Trouble? I Don’t Think So

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In fact, 2010 venture capital fundraising is at the same level as it was in 1995 and 1996. Application developers, no longer constrained by the massive administrative costs to set up servers, can solve previously impossible problems by seamlessly adding more hardware—except at the database layer.

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Invest in Israel Newsletter March 2011 Edition

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Its Java-based applications replicate many of the features of smartphone applications, but make them accessible to the millions of people that don’t own a smartphone. Unemployment fell to 6.1% in January, as the number of Israelis out of work dropped to 189,300. Unemployment had dropped as low as 5.9%

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In Silicon Valley, Founders Fight for Control

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Netscape and Opsware, which he helped found, went public with single-class share structures in 1995 and 2001, respectively. Software Development Engineer, Senior-IEB-Commercial Services (795929) Job -. APG - Associate - Application Developer (NON ALADDIN) -. Mr. Andreessen said he used to see things different.