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如果说人们对于1998年AOL 42亿美元收购Netscape还记忆犹新的话,那么,进入到1999年,这种购并的趋势是有增无减。年初,美国高速网络服务商@Home以67亿美元买下Excite,使自己成为与Microsoft、Yahoo、AOL同席的网络巨人。之后,USA Networks又以220亿美元收购了Lycos。而日前,Yahoo公司则宣布以60.8亿美元收购Broadcast.com。这是Yahoo继今年年初以45.8亿美元收购GeoCities之后第二次大的收购活动。之后,Yahoo的股票一路飞涨,市值竟然超过了Boeing这样的大公司。而在国内,今年年初,中国互联网信息中心(CNNIC)发布的统计报告称,至1998年底,中国的Internet用户已达210万,这一数字较当年7月统计的117.5万翻了一番;今年3月1日,中国电信正式下调Internet和电话资费:4月8日,国内8家知名中文网络内容提供商(ICP)召开“中国ICP联合发展高层会议”成立大会及首次会议……一时间有关国内ISP/ICP的话题又成了业内人士关注的焦点。
If people still remember the Netscape acquisition of AOL for $ 4.2 billion in 1998, the trend of mergers and acquisitions will continue unabated until 1999. At the beginning of the year, @Home, the US high-speed Internet service provider, bought Excite for $ 6.7 billion, making itself the Internet giant with Microsoft, Yahoo and AOL. After that, USA Networks bought Lycos for another 22 billion U.S. dollars. Yahoo recently announced its $ 6.08 billion acquisition of Broadcast.com. This is the second Yahoo acquisition following GeoCities’ $ 4.58 billion acquisition earlier this year. Since then, Yahoo’s shares skyrocketed and their market capitalization surpassed larger companies like Boeing. In China, at the beginning of this year, the statistics report released by the China Internet Network Information Center (CNNIC) said that by the end of 1998, the number of Internet users in China had reached 2.1 million, double the figure of 1.175 million in July of that year; that year On March 1, China Telecom formally lowered Internet and telephone tariffs: On April 8, eight well-known Chinese web content providers (ICPs) held the inaugural meeting and the first meeting of the “China ICP Joint Development High-level Meeting” ... for a time Domestic ISP / ICP topic has become the focus of attention of the industry.