Journalists uneasy about Microsoft news service

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Microsoft claims that its Microsoft Network on-line service will not compete directly with the nation's news organizations, but journalists are nevertheless wary. The chief fear is that as news is increasingly gathered by electronic information services, editorial content will increasingly be made by business executives as well. Microsoft's role in the debate was highlighted when one of its new employees asked to join a private Internet discussion group for journalists. Some members of the group opposed the idea and wonder about Microsoft's news-gathering strategy. For its part, officials at the company say its employees will not directly gather or write news. The company is, however, hiring journalists to produce part of its forthcoming information service. The service is scheduled to go on-line in summer 1995.

Newspapers, Newspaper Publishers, Communication services, not elsewhere classified, Home TV Data Service, Product development, Microsoft Corp., Newspaper publishing, Online information services, Information services, MSFT, Ethics, Information services industry, Social issue, Social conditions, Online information service, Videotex systems, Software Development

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The co-founder of Netscape is an entrepreneur once again

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Mark Andreessen, the 28-year-old co-founder of Netscape Communications Corp. and former chief technology officer of America Online Inc., has returned to Silicon Valley to help set up Loudcloud Inc. Saying that software, not software companies, will become more valuable in terms of distribution, purchasing and use via the Internet, Andreessen and three Netscape executives have set up shop in an extra room at a Menlo Park semiconductor equipment firm. The self-funded firm will develop software designed to assist companies in getting onto the Internet.

United States, Prepackaged software, Computer Software, Software Publishers, Videotex & Teletext, Telegraph & other communications, Management, Officials and employees, Computer software industry, Software industry, Software, Economic aspects, Internet, Online services, Internet services, America Online Inc., AOL, Netscape Communications Corp., NSCP, Entrepreneurship, Andreessen, Marc, Loudcloud Inc.

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