Each day, Benzinga takes a look back at a notable market-related moment that occurred on this date. What Happened? On Nov. 23, 1998, America Online acquired Netscape Communications for $4.2 billion.

Hi, <BR><BR>I am helping a co-worker clean up her computer. She was running the Netscape 4.x browser, and it could not open pdf files, print, and it occasionally crashed. I set her up with Firefox 1.0 ...

Netscape's story reads like a proper fairy tale: takeovers, fierce and hostile competition, split-ups, a giant payout and even a dragon! While Netscape may now only be a sweet, sweet memory to those ...

Five years ago, the Netscape browser took most Web users to their destinations. Today it stands on the verge of irrelevance. That's the story from WebSideStory, a Californian firm that publishes ...

Eigentlich wollte Netscape sich ja auf die Mozilla-Architektur konzentrieren. Im November 2000 hatte Netscape ein erstes eigenes Release aus dem Open-Source-Code gestrickt, doch das schwerfällige ...

New data on worldwide usage of Web browser software shows Netscape is once again being clobbered by rival browser Internet Explorer and now has an estimated market share of 3.4 percent, according to ...

Mac users are getting bombarded with browsers this week, since we're getting another browser option hot on the heels of the Camino 1.5 release. This one is a bit more "interesting" though, since it's ...

Recent news detailed Netscape's plummet toward the x-axis of browser "market" share. And while it appears that AOL is finally considering the use of Mozilla's Gecko layout engine in their mainstream ...