Son of Netscape.
Phone.com and Software.com completed a $6.4 billion merger the week of August 5, 2000, but the new company is unlikely to be able to rival Microsoft. The combined annual revenues of the two companies amount to only around $150 million, and although Software.com is a sound business, Phone.com has be...
| Publicado en: | Economist Vol. 356; pp. 55 - 57 |
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Economist Newspaper Limited
August 12 2000
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