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...already existed. He'd met Marc Andreessen, who as an undergraduate programmer had helped create the then obscure browsing software Mosaic, which made it easy to navigate the World Wide Web. Navigating the infant Web, which transforms the Internet's isolated, text-based sites into one vast, hyperlinked, multimedia-capable network, got Clark thinking--and acting. He and Andreessen founded Mosaic Communications (soon renamed Netscape) and built a business around an improved Web browser. The result was one of history's headiest corporate ascents, as the ubiquitous Netscape Navigator browser helped spawn the world's startling online stampede. "The Internet...
...dangling a $500 computer in front of consumers, you might expect to find Intel CEO Andy Grove sneaking a peek at other platforms. No chance. Grove's hole card: revolutionary Intel technology called MMX (matrix manipulation extensions) that will load already speedy Pentium chips with a set of fast multimedia instructions. Intel engineers say MMX is the company's greatest advance in a decade--bigger even than the Pentium...
...media monopoly. Time Warner itself controls a major motion picture studio, six publishing houses, 24 magazines, seven cable channels and eight music companies. It is about to merge with Turner Broadcasting, itself a media powerhouse centered on CNN. General Electric owns NBC network news, soon to be a comprehensive multimedia news service on MSNBC, nine television stations and more than 10 cable channels. Disney owns ABC network news, 21 ABC radio stations, 18 television stations, five motion picture studios, two publishing houses, eight cable channels, 11 newspapers and three music studios. Westing-house owns CBS network news, three cable channels...
...chose to reinvent. At week's end Bennett was putting the finishing touches on a leveraged buyout that would take control of Prodigy from IBM and Sears and retool it into a net-based multimedia studio. If all goes according to plan, Bennett and his team will be running a giant-content company producing sports, entertainment and news-based Websites...
...represents most of Hollywood's hardest-working filmmakers, including seriously surnamed stars Cruise, Hanks, De Niro, DeVito and Pacino. And the recent turmoil hasn't kept the agency from signing talent like Anthony Hopkins, Nick Nolte and hot newcomer Matthew McConaughey (the upcoming A Time to Kill) while forging multimedia ties with Intel and the creators of an innovative Internet Website known as The Spot...