Private company

Netscape

American computer services company

Netscape Communications Corporation (originally Mosaic Communications Corporation) was an American independent computer services company with headquarters in Mountain View, California, and then Dulles, Virginia. Its Netscape web browser was once dominant but lost to Internet Explorer and other competitors in the first browser war, with its market share falling from more than 90 percent in the mid-1990s to less than one percent in 2006.2 From Wikipedia, CC BY-SA 4.0

Last updated Oct 16, 2026.

Overview

Apr 4, 1994Founded1
  • Industrysoftware industry1
  • HeadquartersMountain View1
  • Legal formjoint-stock company1

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The story

Founded by James H. Clark and Marc Andreessen on Apr 4, 1994.1

Leadership

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Products and brands

  • software

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Subsidiaries and ownership

Parent company

Owners

Also owns

  • DMOZ

From Wikidata.1

Timeline

  1. 2015Acquired Acquired by Verizon1
  2. Jul 15, 2003Dissolved Dissolved1
  3. 1998Acquired Acquired by AOL1
  4. Apr 4, 1994Founded Founded1

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