Attention Marc Andreessen: Microsoft Just Bought (Part of) Netscape

It’s part of the $1 billion AOL patent deal, and it’s something that would have made many minds explode back in the 1990s.
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HP’s Whitman: We Have to Walk Before We Can Run With webOS

HP CEO Meg Whitman and director Marc Andreessen talk about the commitment HP plans to make to its new open source project.
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Laura Arrillaga-Andreessen Talks About Giving 2.0

There’s a lot to like about Laura Arrillaga-Andreessen. She’s a philanthropist, a Stanford lecturer, the author of “Giving 2.0″ — and she has a trophy husband!
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Dialing Up 20 Years of Gadget Reviews

Walt reflects on two decades of covering personal-consumer products and offers his thoughts on what technological gains might be next.
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My Picks for Yahoo’s Next CEO — Maybe Snoop Dogg, Ya Digg?

While the Yahoo board has yet to begin a search, I have already been hard at work on selecting the next CEO.
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Kleiner Plays Catch-Up

Venture-capital firm Kleiner Perkins Caufield & Byers led the late-1990s dot-com frenzy with investments in Netscape Communications Corp., Amazon.com Inc. and, later, Google Inc.

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When Employees Misinterpret Managers

Management purely by numbers is sort of like painting by numbers — it’s strictly for amateurs.

Apps or Browsers? Yes, Says Marc Andreessen.

Can’t ask for a better authority on the browser vs. app debate than Mr. Netscape himself.
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BoomTown Will Have What Marc Andreessen Is Having–Investors' Splashy Win in Microsoft-Skype Hookup

When a group of powerful investors, including Silver Lake Partners and Andreessen Horowitz, waded into the mess at Skype less than two years ago with a $1.9 billion cash investment for a big chunk of the company, it was–how can BoomTown put this delicately–a hot mess. Now–with Microsoft poised to pay over $8 billion for the Internet telephony and voice communications company–it is a lucrative one.

Exclusive: Flipboard Confirms $50 Million Funding at $200 Million Valuation

Late last month, BoomTown posted about a huge venture funding effort by the high-profile and even more highly designed social media reading app for the Apple iPad, Flipboard. Today, its co-founder and CEO Mike McCue confirmed a $50 million round at an eye-popping $200 million valuation, in a wide-ranging interview at the start-up’s Palo Alto, Calif., HQ.

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