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Strategies & Market Trends : Gorilla Game Investing in the eWorld

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To: gdichaz who wrote (288)9/10/1999 7:39:00 PM
From: Brian K Crawford  Read Replies (2) of 1817
 
AOL gives FaceTime access to instant messenger
By Courtney Macavinta
Staff Writer, CNET News.com
September 10, 1999, 1:35 p.m. PT
URL: news.cnet.com

In a deal that could fuel its battle with Microsoft, America Online is licensing out its popular AOL Instant Messenger network, expanding its use into the customer service arena as part of a deal to be announced Monday.

AOL will allow access to its network of 45 million registered IM users to Foster City, California-based FaceTime Communications, which has developed an interface to let e-commerce and brick-and-mortar firms offer customer support via IM.


I think we will see this "AOL licenses its IM network to....."
a lot more in the future. A separate article on the deal said AOL will get paid per message....

Is this B2B???

Have a great weekend.

Brian

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